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> C# is a bit nicer than Java, but you can use Kotlin or Scala on the JVM.

With .Net you get F#
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It’s not just about EF. The beauty of C# and Linq is:

Linq => expression trees => provider => native query language of data source => data source.

Written correctly, you can pass expressions around like:

repo.Find(c => c.age > 65 && c.gender == “male”)

And the expression can be interpreted at runtime by either EF creating native sql or the Mongo driver creating a native MongoQuery or even an in memory List for unit testing.

No matter how good another ORM may be for another language, what made C#s implementation better was Linq + expression trees.
Intercom is just a chat widget (and backend system) for customer support / sales, and Sentry is a kind of hosted error log. You can read both of their privacy policies.

https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy

https://sentry.io/terms/

Also if you're going to be a privacy zealot you might as well switch to uBlock Origin over Adblock+.
MIT Develops Window Coating That Could Save Millions in Air Conditioning Costs
> The fertility rate has been declining world wide, from ~5 per woman in 1950 to ~2.5 now.

But why should that be considered bad? A major factor to this development is decreasing child mortality rates in less developed countries, having to birth fewer children is a natural outcome of that and that's good.

The other version of that would be them still just getting as many children as before, but with all of them surviving into adulthood, and as such contributing to the global population issue, which also happens.

> but it is decidedly a world phenomenon and there is not a lot more decline required before 2.5 becomes <2.

Sorry but I heavily disagree. There's a lot more to decline before 2.5 becomes <2 and even if we get there: Why should that be bad?
Perpetual population growth is a completely insane and unsustainable concept, why are we insisting on making it a thing?

A reduced global population would be one of the most efficient ways to fight climate change and the environmental impact humanity is having on the planet as a whole. Going around and killing people, to reduce the population, is not compatible with our moral framework, so we need to look at other, less drastic, ways of reducing the population or at least keeping its growth in check.

That's exactly where easy access to contraception and the right to abortion come in. These are not just "social issues", in the long term they will become very real economic and environmental issues. Particularly once automation will fully take off, we'll be sitting on a crowded planet with more people than we know what to do with, with conservative politicians still demanding "full employment".
wait a minute. So who's the actual manufacturer? I went to aimatech.net but I could not find the kickscooter among their products.
Not always the case - my 2014 MBP Retina has an i7-4870HQ CPU. According to Intel's ARK, the CPU supports 32GB RAM. However, the maximum you could spec until this year was 16GB on any model. Even worse, I got my hands on a 2012 MacBook Air with an i7-3667U CPU. The maximum those models ever went to was 8GB. This i7 also supports 32GB. Finally, the latest range-topper 15" MBP has an i9-8950HK chip that supports 64GB, double the amount Apple will solder permanently to the board for you.

Part of this is due to increasing DRAM densities, and used to be a good thing with Macs - frequently the device's practical maximum RAM would be twice what Apple listed as possible, since the DRAM density doubles between the time the machine is released and you actually need to upgrade the machine. However, with the RAM now soldered, we can't benefit from the increasing densities right as we start needing more RAM.

When I upgraded, I bought a Skylake laptop with 16GB of socketed RAM and the option with the CPU to increase that to 64GB down the line. 32GB SO-DIMMs only became possible this year.

I've read that Apple's limits of 16GB were usually down to power draw, that adding more RAM would require more power, thus bigger batteries to keep up the marketing battery life, and it was easier to just limit the RAM to '16GB is enough'.

That all said, I cannot deny that modern applications are RAM guzzlers and developers seem to revel in the glut of available memory. Still, there are situations where you need all that RAM (e.g. multi-k video production... perhaps that's where the 'Pro' in MacBook Pro came from?!), and you just can't get around that requirement.
Streisand that orangutan!

Headline sounded a little surprising until I learned it was a rebranded Greenpeace short.
I've reviewed Lightsail and it's throttled heavily:

https://www.karoly.io/amazon-lightsail-review-2018/
The $6T Barrier Holding Electric Cars Back
Being able to pre-heat the cabin, or checking the charge status on a phone is a reason to be 'tossed out' of the dealership? Boy, you'd be a good car salesman!
> And yet it remains an interesting thought experiment, doesn't it?

Sure, but that doesn't make it a sound policy for real political discourse.

> Didn't it work on Reddit, in which they found that driving hateful communities out raised the level of discourse?

Or did it simply fuel a growing narrative of censorship and persecution which is driving the counter-PC culture and electing people like Trump? I don't think analyzing this as a closed system is faithful to the point I'm making, because these changes can and do have negative externalities.

> Hitler himself admitted that had the Nazis not been tolerated, they wouldn't have gained the foothold they did.

So basically, had the majority of the country not been sympathetic to Nazi principles, then Nazis wouldn't have gotten elected? That strikes me as absurdly tautological. A minority of people cannot be resist the wishes of a majority via intolerance, and if good people are the majority, then they can safely ignore the minority.

> Not only do I prefer Popper's claim, but I prefer the Frankfurt School's claim too[0].

This claim at that link is pure nonsense: "Tolerance is a democratic principle, since it relies on the idea that nobody has an absolute claim on the truth"

No, simply false. Tolerance is justified by the recognition that all people have intrinsic value ala Kant, that they are thinking feeling beings and that unless you wish to launch your own campaign for genocide against people with whom you disagree, then you should seek to convince them of your version of the truth using non-violent means.

The only time violence is justified is in response to violence. The far left and the far right are both guilty of violating this principle.
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The main advantages of the graph are:
1. you can get an easier overview of complex processes and how they connect.
2. The tracked parameters are inherited. So if you are tracking parameters that don't change to the next iteration, you will still have them stored in the process. It also remembers how they connect, so if you change a name upstream it will cascade down.
3. You can plot the leaves according to their parameters. If you click on the plotting button in the top left and choose model_name vs. mae for example, you can compare how different models performed and still see how their iterations connect.
Not GP, but this is exactly the reply that I was hoping to hear. The GDPR has done more for human rights for the masses than any other initiative in the past 70 years.
Thanks, yes, we have to fix that.
It’s the exact opposite. Fanboyism was much stronger in cars and always has been. Before any of those companies exist.

Ford vs Chevy trucks. No car like Mopar. Think of the muscle car heydays of the 60s and 70s.
I just cut out the middleman and use their Rider IDE. It doesn't seem to bring my whole PC to grinding halt and is built on top of ReSharper. It's worth a try if you haven't checked it out already.
Elon Musk won. This was his ultimate plan, to move automakers from fossil fuels. They all made fun of them, execs from traditional automakers, but here they are.

We have a lot to thank him for.
I like having a live demo available, but not on the landing page. It should be one click away to avoid this kind of confusion.
SA generally has dirt-cheap WhatsApp data packages and at least Vodacom has free FB (without images).
> But global warming is a far bigger problem, which poses far larger threats to the world. We should do whatever it takes to cut back on CO2

It's not so simple: the ongoing environmental disaster is caused by many different sources of CO2 (e.g. concrete production), particulates, water usage and pollution, overfishing, animal farming, land pollution, ozone layer depletion.

First, almost all electrical energy ends up being released in the environment as heat.

Then, cheap energy only encourage faster production and consumption of goods, aka consumerism.

There's a very strong correlation between per-capita income, energy use and waste/pollution production throughout human societies and past centuries.

Very few environmental problems are solved by spending more energy.
I am the consumer and I hate this bullshit.
One thing most people do not understand is that the former net neutrality rules did not prohibit throttling, in and of itself. Every rule and clause in the net neutrality bill has a little clause following "Though shall not [...] except for reasonable network management." What's "reasonable network management"? 400+ pages and it was not well defined. It's something that would be decided on a case-by-case basis. But ultimately if any carrier could create a compelling argument that some service was causing undue congestion on their network, they had complete freedom to throttle it.

As an aside you'll note that now, and then, when companies are found to be doing they'll immediately scream "reasonable network management." Search for sprint "reasonable network management" and you'll get years of results such as [1][2][3]. Give them a cut of the profits and suddenly that congestion would be considered much more reasonable - a la Netflix/Comcast.

[1] - https://www.sprint.com/en/legal/legal-regulatory-and-consume...

[2] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/nonpr...

[3] - https://civsourceonline.com/2015/10/15/sprint-sued-by-non-pr...
That WIPP wiki entry reads like a strong argument to burn thru our stockpiles with TWR.

Thanks for Onkalo reference. Maybe the Finns will prove more competent than us.

Did I mention fossil fuels? No. Did I say TWR or fossil fuels? No.

Any survivable future scenario is wind, solar, and if we're lucky bioreactors (carbon capture).

It'd be nice if humans could be trusted with (non-TWR) nuclear. But we can't. And even if we could, anything started TODAY will be decades too late, so why bother.

Meanwhile, feasible affordable wind and solar capacity is doubling every 30 (?) months. It's happening.

Everyone forgets about the weapons. Assuming we survive to care, what are we going to do with all the decommissioned nukes? Answer: TWR.

I'm befuddled why anyone supporting nuclear power would oppose TWR. More power. Less waste. Less proliferation risk.

Probably makes too much sense. Or sounds like magic.
If you're worried about memory usage, then neither is great (C# is a little better than Java), you may want to look into Go or Rust.
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> no gold standard

What make you think that a gold standard would be intrinsic to the value of money?

Nowadays the value of money is represented by peoples debt, i.e. work that will be done in the future.

Printing money just lets the government increase inflation. It doesn't destroy value, it just "steals" from the people, espacially those with much savings.
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On an entirely superficial point, in case the author is reading:

> It offers developers modern tooling that can scaffold projects, build, run, test and deploy using incredibly easy-to-use CLI tools.

I think this is one place where the abbreviation CLI should be avoided, since it means two completely different things both of which are somewhat plausible here at first glance. "Command line interface" -- even though this is a Microsoft-derived thing, you can do everything using the command-line tools you're used to from Unix, node.js, etc.; "Common Language Infrastructure" -- even though this is happening on Mac and Linux as well as Windows, you can do everything using the Microsoft .NET tools you're used to from Windows. I'm pretty sure the first of these is the intended meaning, but I had to think about it.
Yes, exactly. They invested a lot of money into marketing and convinced people of the truth: even a mediocre electric car is still pretty good.
From Wikipedia:
> Brouwer the intuitionist in particular objected to the use of the Law of Excluded Middle over infinite sets

It always seems to me that using the LEM over infinite sets is akin to claiming that all problems are decidable.
Yes but they actually ship hardware right now (laptops), just raised a round of funding, and post regular updates on tangible progress. A safer bet than most, I'd say.
i'm familiar with mitril - however i explored my own way to approach a library.
If you want to be on the JVM I highly recommend giving Kotlin a look before Java. Great language and excellent tooling.
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Yes, because the reasons companies tell you they do something is always the truth.
One factor that hasn't been mentioned is that even the newest versions of the 737 contain ancient, obsolete technology

You mean technology like... wings? ;-)

More seriously, the "ancient" stuff is such because its reliability has been proven over decades of refinement. "Don't fix what ain't broke," as the saying goes. The aerospace industry moves slowly for a reason. I'd much rather fly on an old maintained plane than the very newest.
Not just that, they will even compete on latency with transoceanic fiber operators.
any thoughts on how much resources 8x8 would be devoting to continued development of Jitsi? Given that you had pretty free run at atlassian.
Where can I read about the teardown and analysis of Tesla software?
Yes. I did. I think we all did :) But we see these things __botched__ all the time.

The reason for that is too many still have it all wrong. They get the means right. "Look ma! My CTA is just like that article!!" But they miss the start, and the ends. That is: It's not about them, it's about me.

The article is about tools. That's great. But unless you understand and embrace why you're using them, you're going to get it wrong. Again, plenty are still getting it wrong.

Put another way, a fancy new IDE or a hot-shot framework, etc. are tools. They don't mean you're going to build good / great product. You need a broader awareness for that. Not just how to use the tools, but why.

I was wanting to shine some light on why.
the services named are all quite high bandwidth compared to regular websites. can it not be that this is automated throttling to prevent congestion on parts of the networks?
Looks like it all got released by scene groups back at the time but I haven't checked if it's still shared anywhere - another copy never hurts!

https://predb.me/?search=Jamie+kennedy+experiment
Any you don’t think the way to solve this is to build better social and cultural institutions instead of throwing surveillance technology at the problem? Terrible ideas are rarely created ex nihilo, they almost always arise as a response to a legitimate problem and justified by the presence of the problem and not their results.
> The NanoPi Fire3 is a high performance ARM Board developed by FriendlyElec for Hobbyists, Makers and Hackers for IOT projects. It features Samsung's Cortex-A53 Octa Core S5P6818@1.4GHz SoC and 1GB 32bit DDR3 RAM

Who needs such a powerful CPU with so little RAM? The reason I have still not bought any Pi is all of them have 2 or less GiBs of RAM and I don't feel interested in buying anything with less than 4.
You don't have to rely on your beliefs for what "equivalent access" means. The writers of the GPL have already written a FAQ for what it means, which I linked to you above. They wrote this line knowing how most judges would interpret it. This is true for both GPLv2 and GPLv3.
There are a lot of folks here asking for a bit more. Here are two versions of the same well-done talk, from Andrej Bauer: a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qPOReu4FI, and a paper http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2017-54-03/S0273-0979-2016-... (sorry, the paper link may not work for everyone, but the video contains basically the same content.)
It depends, right? Honneker vs the Kim dictatorship in N Korea. Honecker led to people “telling” on each other for gain (making stuff up to advance or get rid of a rival) but it wasn’t do much gulags. North Korea was/id diffetent. It’s there to repress and keep the status quo, nothing else. It’s very repressive.

So, ond can be like Singapore today, another can be like Venezuela today. Depends on the govt and whether it responds to its constituency.
I think the live demo is awesome! I think you should keep it.

But: it also took me a while to see that it is interactive.

There should be a big label "Live Demo" above it (the small text on the right is easy to miss)

(Unfortunately, for me, all the live demo does is show that the product is still pretty rough.)
What about BigDecimal?
Deliveroo's data shows cyclists are faster in cities than cars and motorbikes
>I can now work on my GPL'ed 2D game in Java.

You know you can have today, if you want to. You can go on food-stamps and make use of the plethora of social programs to provide your basic necessities and then you can spend your days writing your 2D game engine in Java. ... But you won't do that. And we both know why.

>The Capitalism system encourages businesses to work for profit mindlessly, and so we have invoked Oracle from the depths of hell.

OK. So this is where hysterics start against the best socio-political system we have developed. And you do agree with that, right? That the modern iteration of capitalism (i.e. a market-economy with democratic government oversight and social safety net) is the best system we have ever tried?

>The Mondragon umbrella of cooperatives is a good case study of this working in scale.

I have nothing against Mondragon or worker-owned coops in general, but ownership structure doesn't really change anything. The core challenge that people have with Capitalism is 'creative destructive' because it means constant change, and change is always hard. If you've been making horse-and-buggy wheels for 20 years and you've been put out of business by automobiles, it doesn't matter whether you're employed by a Capitalist corp or a co-op - it is still hard. So worker-owned coop doesn't solve this or any problem. In fact, I'm not even sure what problem it does solve.
Girard Startup lessons:

- the founders set a contagious mission that infects the company

- competition can be destructive, work hard to be a monopoly

- the founders take all responsibility and share all success

TLDR; emulate Christ
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This has stood with me for a long time. Now, it's back, thanks to your comment:

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instructions, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

Very well and what can you give? What have you learned that you can give (the merchant asks of Siddhartha)

I can think, I can wait, I can fast.
I don't think you'll find much use for it when reasoning about a specific computable hash function because there's e.g. no clear distinction between using the pingeonhole principle and using the properties of the hash function itself.

You could however reason about a 'generic' hash function and show that a particular program can only be broken if someone can find a hash collision. That doesn't really require constructionist reasoning though.
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Let me rephrase it - "It looks like Product Hunt for UI/UX related products with feed from design industry(Behance, Medium, Dribbble)" ;)
When a vm is running off a physical partition or lvm lv, it is much faster than vm running off a file. All the overhead of the host filesystem goes away.

If you do this with a SSD, make sure the guest OS can do the trimming.
What? Kill Cancer with Measles Virus?
Are you for real? Bolt outselling Model 3? That was numbers from last year.. For the record bolt seems to have peaked at 2000+ cars per month last year and decreased to under 2000 per month since. GM seems pretty content with that.
If you haven't read it already, this article on the placebo effect a few days ago was interesting in how we on one hand use it as a baseline for measuring the effectiveness of drug treatments but actually can vary wildly between individuals. It's not surprising that results are so inconsistent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18398342
I can't understand why no reference was made to ADHD, am I missing something, or was it the case that the journalist didn't think to mention it?
I do agree that the person you replied to was unnecessarily cynical (and quite irrational -- there is nothing surprising that Microsoft pitches Microsoft services in their own products), but your reply is contradictory.

I've worked in a variety of shops, both "Microsoft" shops and non-Microsoft shops, and I would most certainly agree with the GP That Microsoft shops tend to be dominated by developers who like the comfort of just eating whatever pablum Microsoft is serving, often even if that pablum will take years longer to digest than competitive alternatives. There is, in general, a tunnel vision that profoundly limits the options available to build solutions, at substantial project cost.

And it's understandable. If you're at a Microsoft shop you aren't going to challenge the norm if your first choice is SQL Server and BizTalk and Azure, etc. It's the easy, laziest option. Occasionally it might be the best option, but that's just accidental given that the choice was predetermined.
I believe that their cars having a single central ECU vs. the general trend of multiple interconnected modules is fairly novel for a major car maker? Their battery technology is also years ahead of competitors, according to teardowns.

Anyway... as with discussions of the iPhone ad infinitum, it's not about developing innovations de novo, but rather about taking different features and incorporating them into an offering that holistically beats everything else.

We'd seen all of the iPhone's features in earlier phones... but their combination and integration in the first iPhone revolutionised the industry.

Likewise, we've seen electric cars before, but Tesla shook the industry up by creating an electric car which had no major compromises and could --together with the revolutionary Supercharger network-- could completely replace an ICE car for almost all use-cases.
The layout looks weird in firefox, did you only test with chrome?
This is the twitter of the guy who made the video
https://twitter.com/highqualitysh1t/status/10595495983295201...

This is the implementation:

"Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation- – Official TensorFlow implementation of the ICLR 2018 paper"

https://github.com/tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans
That article is dated September 1, 2017. Last years news. This year, Tesla Model 3 is selling more than BMW or Mercedes cars in the US and ten times Chevy Bolt.
is that a recent innovation? I haven't really played CS regularly for about a year, but before then when I'd overwatch I saw quite a few cases of blatant long-distance wall hacks - people looking directly at an opponent's head through a wall from spawn to spawn.

I'm not sure how you could feasibly prevent the remaining hacks server-side as they're nigh-indistinguishable from player skill, if the hacks supply some non-determinism/jitter so you're not instantly snapping to a player's head when they're behind you.
Thanks! It is, of course, new, but also less rough when you use the actual product and not the live demo.