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> If an alien sense relying on physics unknown to us were to come to our attention, it seems likely to me that it would indeed lead us to discover that new physics. But since we don't know whether physics like that exists or not, we can't say whether such a sense could exist either.

But we do know enough physics already to explain everything we can observe that surrounds us, not with our senses alone but with the measurement devices that we can construct.

The only physics that we can't measure and completely explain is that one that is anyway inadequately reachable not only to us with out human senses but to our measurement devices which already can measure changes in length 1000 times the size of the proton, which happen on the 4 km length (see LIGO).

The only physics that remains to be known better are the effects that happen on the galactic and intergalactic scales or inside of the black holes and during the first picoseconds of the existence of the universe, or with the particles that exist too short or interact too little to influence anything we can observe:

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws...

"The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood"

"there’s no question that the human goal of figuring out the basic rules by which the easily observable world works was one that was achieved once and for all in the twentieth century."

"You might question the “once and for all” part of that formulation, but it’s solid. Of course revolutions can always happen, but there’s every reason to believe that our current understanding is complete within the everyday realm. Using the framework of quantum field theory — which we have no reason to doubt in this regime — we can classify the kinds of new particles and forces that could conceivably exist, and go look for them. It’s absolutely possible that such particles and forces do exist, but they must be hidden from us somehow: either the particles are too massive to be produced, or decay too quickly to be detected, or interact too weakly to influence ordinary matter; and the forces are either too weak or too short-range to be noticed. In any of those cases, if they can’t be found by our current techniques, they are also unable to influence what we see in our everyday lives."
This is a great use case for ubi. I also think the US should open Medicare for small business. I think the biggest problem with ubi is the branding. It should be billed as alternative social security or something. Using ubi for starting a business is great. ( and good luck to you!)
>...formal specifications that provide details beyond type and signature are relatively rare.

I'm not sure what, specifically, they're suggesting the alternative is, since their later argument seems to just be to abstract the procedure calls into components and connectors. Most documentation is still just going to list details about the component and/or connector; which doesn't conquer the problem - as referenced above - that the documentation around the specifications will, themselves, still be relatively limited.

Since I'm most familiar with RPC in Windows, let's reference EcDoConnectEx[0] as an example of their suggested model. You're consuming a component (MAPI/RPC), without having to implement the connector (RPC), yourself. It's still a gauntlet of documentation and there's nothing outside of the specification readily available to demonstrate the actual implementation. (At least, I don't recall seeing it in the MAPI Headers.[1])

While agree that procedure calls - in and of themselves - might be too low-level for every-day implementation and consumption, you can have the inverse problem of sandboxing like occurred with .NET (before it was ported to [l]unix via .NET Core). Even then, you're now completely abstracting the low-level from the high-level and, whilst that is entirely easy to program for, it's not - precisely - the case that it's easy for debugging back down to the native layer - where an exception might be thrown.

I've most famously seen this as a native exception (hResult) being translated into an entirely different exception "reason" in managed code (presumably because either every scenario is almost impossible to program for and/or the native layer was changed and the managed layer wasn't aware of the change and/or never caught up to it).

Take this view/perspective with a grain of salt, however, because I haven't programmed in the [l]unix world - outside of some basic Python; so, my anecdotal comment is very much that and should be treated as such. =]

[0] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee200938(v=exchg.80...

[1] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=129...
We use this to diagram our systems at a high level in documentation. It can be fiddly to get it exactly how you want it but it's a lot faster and easier to version control then, say, PowerPoint.
Runs in any browser?
If Oracle wasn't involved you wouldn't need to pay as many to get involved
Trying to understand if a plate number is a prime also works quite well :) Though local congestions are rarely large enough to allow checking for factors over 11 or 13.
Well... Despite Polymer's repeating of "use the platform", I always felt React used the platform far more than Polymer. In the end, React is just a way to structure an application that generates and manipulates regular HTML. In other words, you can use shadow DOM and custom tags just fine. If the browser supports it, that is - and if you've used Polymer since before Web Components were standardised (HTML Imports still aren't and will never be), that was a major downside, and the opposite of light-weight.
> First of all, if they don't get a refund through PayPal, they will just get a chargeback through their credit card, and you're still screwed.

Will that affect their standing with PayPal somehow?
You could look into dart. Take a look at http://aqueduct.io/ for an example.
As a native Hong Konger, I concur this is the most succinct and accurate description of the situation with Cantonese. Thank you!
Code reviews, yes. Not all projects can afford to go through millions of contributions because the barrier was lowered or eliminated. So in that case it is not necessary a good thing to accept lazy contributions.[1] And before someone misinterprets, sure, you can work endless hours on a contribution and then submit it easily. This is not the case I am talking about, and this is not what we have observed in the case of these package managers either. Or at least that's what I did when I took a look at npm. If it's not polluted because anyone can submit their garbage easily, then what is at fault, exactly?

[1] We are still talking about a package manager, and this project specifically.
It's so little money that I don't think people would do nothing. I agree with your concern about mental health. Sometimes well intentioned policy sets up an environment that encourages behaviors that lead to mental health issues (the opiod crisis for example).
This is almost certainly going to be an unpopular view but when you view the Chinese behaviour through the lens of a Western view of the world, you are insensitive to the fact that modern Chinese culture has a really different starting point, the nation is mostly ethnically homogenous and was not really involved in the enslavement.

I'm not necessarily out to defend the behaviour of this person - I think they were pretty callous, and some of the other practices also seem pretty horrendous but I also think some of the offence readers of this article may take come from projecting our own personal views onto the behaviour of others, ignorant of the different origins and cultural contexts of the offender.

When slurs such as referring to people as monkeys are used by the Chinese, they are not steeped with the kind of hatred and historical context when wielded by someone from the West.

---That doesn't make it any less hurtful or insensitive---

That said, it also doesn't necessarily carry the same intent as it may outside of China. Comparison with animals is far more normalized and entrenched in culture: for instance, everyone is assigned a zodiac by their birth month and the Monkey King is a household mythological hero.
Sounds like you might be looking for C#, but I'm sure you've considered it already.
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To all your "embarassing" examples: what would have been the plausible alternative?

"people would have understood mental illness like we do today" and "people would have had a better understanding of abiogenesis" is emphatically not a possibility.

People saw mental illness, were afraid of it, and put it into the very best system with explanatory power they had at their disposal.

I can't see anything qwrong with that, and certainly don't see why you should laugh at them.
Guys, always remember that only whites can be racist.
Your list of "the most xenophobic", correlates perfectly with percent of whites.
Diversity as well means non-white. So increasing diversity in Africa is impossible because it's already 100% diverse, while if Europe is 50% white, we can still double diversity by removing all whites.
That's a Java thing, not a JVM thing. Try Kotlin for example.
Immediate Mode UIs, at least for "code driven UIs" (as opposed to artist-driven UIs):

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Absolutely, but these differentiators already exist while a lot of the high margin work that car makers are performing today is moving somewhere else in the value chain.
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> fined for swearing at the police

Punished for speech?
Is 9c misplaced? 'Provide information that is useful in and of itself. This includes journalism and creative writing'.

The author has already listed knowledge of how to do any of the other mechanisms more efficiently and effectively (9a).

In what sense is non-instrumental knowledge a fundamental source of wealth? It might be exchanged for wealth, but it is not a form of wealth itself. It is a different paradigm of activity. The author's use of the adjective 'useful' here is surely a misnomer, too.

It's also notable that one of the fundamental forms of wealth accumulation historically - different ways of securing and organising the labour of other humans - is excluded from the list.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/8e0w38/mesh_wifi_...

It's been well over a year.
So does anyone know if in this exact situation it is, or it is not, or are we all just assuming that it's necessary a good thing and bash on anyone who dares to bring it up that it may not be the case? I said "arguably", and yes, while I did not provide an argument, I thought someone else could.
If that can be done, doesn't it defeat the purpose here? Anything can create a file, and then change this tag to 'system' or whatever.
“anyone who declines to be scanned will not necessarily be viewed as suspicious”

So the police demanded to see his identification while having no grounds for suspecting that the guy had committed, or was about to commit a crime.

There are two actual situations which come to mind where the man could have been legally compelled to provide ID: a designated area under the Terrorism Act, and a traffic stop. Neither of those situations apply here.

If were in the same situation as this man, I might not be able to hold myself from telling them to piss off too.
Which would also explain why Nature wrote this publicity piece on it. I can only hope that ML researchers show the rest of academia the way out of publishers' hands.
All speech isn't equal. Nobody has the right to use threatening or intimidating language
High performance 3D applications (like games) typically recreate the entire rendering command list from scratch each frame instead of manipulating an existing "scene graph".

React feels more like "retained mode rendering engines" which were popular in the 90's and early 2000's.
> 0: Company is apparently called "Absa".

FYI, Absa is one of South Africa's largest banks, formed in 1991 by the merger of several large, long-established banks, and by now owns all of Barclays' African operations. It's not a startup.
Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?
A simple technology could secure the border for a fraction of the cost of a wall
obey or evade or challenge the law.
Of course. It seems most masters degrees are pay to stay fraud. I work with a large number of h1bs and “students”, and nearly all are currently attending or did attend “remote graduate colleges” while working full time.
> I think what I'm looking for is React to take some ownership and provide guidance out of the box for these core browser features under the React umbrella.

So we need React on Rails? An opinionated collection of libraries that work on top on the React Runtime. I personally find this idea compelling.
That's not a downside versus native apps, though.
I believe the difference is that you “move on with your life” which I assume means you take down the video. If you had written/produced the song and were trying to monetize it, it would be a different story. There was an article on HN recently where someone remixed a song they found on youtube and then used the remix to claim they had the copyright. YT assigned the rights of the ad revenue to the claimant despite the fact that the rightful author denied all allegations.
A modern version of Python
> The best part is that it uses the platform's native standards, so XDG on Linux, plus whatever macOS and Windows call their implementations.

Boo. Apps not using XDG on macOS drive me mad anyway; 1000 times more so when they do on Linux, but use Library or whatever stupid place on macOS despite the presence of XDG environment variables.
Things that are more inequitable than road pricing
Given that these companies have given up on competing with one another many years ago and have almost identical supply chains, wasn't this inevitable?
While I did not really have an argument, I thought I let someone else who may think the same come along and provide an argument. Or are we all to assume that it is actually inherently, or necessarily a good thing until proven otherwise? I understand that I could have said exactly those things to help on the matter.

I am aware of down-votes being a way of expressing disagreements, and I don't expect everyone to provide a reason for doing so.
(Translated article from medium posted to LinkedIn.)

TL;DR - Don't be an arse when something pops-up that you don't agree with and strive for adapting the software craftsmanship[0].

[0] - https://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
Investigate Generating ASM.js/WASM Directly from Python AST
Try https://parceljs.org/

> modern webdev frameworks are not mature enough

How much time have you invested? I know it can be very confusing given the variety of alternatives, but there are pretty sweet tools out there.
There are certainly multiple reasons for it:

- Commoditize the stuff you don't want to compete on. I don't think German companies want to compete on self driving - they are positioning their product as a premium product and thus compete on performance, quality and emotions.

- Have a common interface to the outside - there is more to self driving than sensors and software: Legal framework, insurance market, road standards, parking standards, home garage standards, refueling standards. These external partners need to change and if too many competing priorities and possibly contradictory demands are coming nothing will change.

Self driving is certainly harder than it looks. If your market is the world and not just the relatively empty and wide grid streets in the US things are even more complex.

I'm sure there is some fear of losing out. More however I think about the limited upside: The cost for developing self driving vs the later ability to charge for it is very limited from a car manufacturers POV: Sensor's are bought in and software is either bought or very expensive to develop and run. Differentiation is minimal: Either considered safe or can't be sold. Self driving here has different economics from EV.
We'll see, I don't think it's clear cut how it'll pan out. I agree that this definition is a line that's tiptoed around a lot, with one the one hand them being clearly seen as a tool of the military, and the US administrations making statements that they consider military strikes a possible response to cyber attacks, and on the other hand lots of careful warning about the risks of doing so, the problems with attributions, attacks being handled on a civil level, ..., but the former half could be enough. Especially if the attack is put into context of the existing war/conflict in the region, qualifying it as part of the conflict might come easier than if it were a standalone attack without this context.

It's not like the courts opinion would force a change in the government position, and governments don't necessarily treat all examples of conventional state aggression as war (or at least not as war they want to concern themselves with) either.
Stack overflow has the same business model.
Looks like there are OS-specific oddities at play. I see an 'Add to home screen' prompt on android, it installs with a custom icon, and then opens in a chromeless browser.
”An almond tree lasts for decades while a dairy cow has a considerably short life”

That doesn’t matter, sustainability-wise. What matters is that the cycle gets closed, not its duration. Insects typically live shorter than mammals, but eating them instead of cows and pigs is a net win.

”and a lot of water”

California produces about 80% of the world’s almonds, and each nut requires 12 liters of water that do not get replenished.

”It’s beyond unsustainable.”

Not that different from almonds.
If types are omitted then there's actual missing information from the equation. If summations are omitted, there... isn't. They add nothing (at least in relativity where every sum is over the same 4 values).

Anyway, index notation is more of a shorthand for symbolic tensor algebra computations than actual sums. The problem is that when dealing with 2, 3, and 4 index tensors, with co- and contra-variant indexes, it's quite cumbersome to notate which component of a tensor contracts with which component of another tensor, and anything you could come up with would end up looking like index notation. Rarely do you actually mean to sum anything.
1) Because she gained experience while writing 7000 quizzes

2) Because with said experiences, she developed mastery on the topic (cf the 10'000h rule)

3) Because she can now charge sweet sweet money for her services (being the #5 quiz maker on BF would imply that she knows how to provides value)

In retrospect, even if she did if for free, it wasn't a bad deal: it was a fun way to spend her time and she gained some skills

It's not much different from whoever hacked Linux servers as a teen, then suddenly found this skillset could translate to good money on the market- sometimes more than what they studied for in college.
People joke. But wouldn’t surprise me if whatever self-driving systems eventually come to the market will require subscriptions. And most likely subscriptions well in excess of $99 per year.
Biggest tunnel boring machine ever and we end up with a tunnel that has the same number of traffic lanes as the old. Progress!

It does have improvements such as a small provision for emergency vehicles to squeeze by or pulling a disabled vehicle out of the way, and hopefully it is resilient to quakes. Still... Lot of expense for the same 4 lanes.
Yes. Actually you get one gil per interpretter, and can spawn your thread in sub interpretter.

Cpython could do it, but currently can't provide much since the api to do it is only accessible from c.
Wonderful piece by Ron Garret. See also his Wealth-production mechanisms: a followup post:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/10/wealth-production-mechani...
Price and value are two different things.

Looks like quizzes are valuable to BuzzFeed, if the gist of the article is true.

It doesn't necessarily follow that the price of a quiz should go up. The price of a quiz depends on the supply of and demand for quizzes. This quizmaker may be able to charge a premium - certainly the price will be non-zero - but it's unlikely to reflect the value it adds to BuzzFeed.

(This fundamental disconnect between price and value is what drives the greater returns to capital vs returns to labour. Labour competes with other labour; capital captures the difference in the cost of labour and the value created by labour. And the whole system is set up to tax labour instead of capital, because labour isn't very mobile, while capital is global.)
I would suggest to those creators to continue posting on Youtube, but link as much as possible to their own platform.

Patreon unfortunately can also not be trusted as they will dedcided privately what they accept and what they shutdown.

The solution is videos hosted on a service that the artist controls, with a donation option that the creator also controls directly.
I don't know enough about this particular project to say much, but if you Google there are plenty of traffic studies showing that more lanes generally makes traffic worse, not better.
He looks like from Guangdong(by appearance), northerners actually frequently refer them to monkey
Three competitors conspire to not compete. Hmmmm. I’m glad thr EU anti-trust authorities are focused on Google!
Bigger spoiler: you can import the game data in the tw-storydata tag into https://twinery.org/2
Only a browser that supports those APIs
Its not swearing though. You want people locked up for saying "please officer stop bothering us" cause its analogous with 'piss off'?

We have to decide whether expressing a (legal but unfriendly) sentiment is illegal, or only some wordings of a (legal but unfriendly) sentiment are illegal.

Actually we don't have to decide, and the police will be quite happy, its a catch-all law; they get to arrest anyone they don't like and the public get to live in a legal grey area where they are only safe if they grovel and plead, its a minefield, tell me again why can't we have freedom of speech?
Is it not reasonable for Harvard to try to grow their endowment? If an alumnus wants to donate a new library or a new scholarship to Harvard, what's wrong with letting their kid attend, assuming she has the grades? The library or scholarship could benefit far more than what we lose by not admitting the one kid for the place the legacy took.
I though you were stating that Pythn were slow compared to what it could be, being a dynamic language.

Of course if you compare to static languages it's slow. Of course you can write low level specialized DS. Duh.
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Exactly. Which I don't understand why most of them are not doing.

I would put my videos on as many platforms as possible, and try to convince people to move eventually to my own platform that I fully control.
You didn't hear about it because the majority of the West is too busy directing their moral outrage at the most ethnically diverse country on Earth, which, surprisingly, has problems with racism.

My pet theory is that this is because Americans are one of the few groups of people who are willing to accept the fact that they have problems with racism. Every other country mostly just denies the existence of any racism that crops up (or overreacts in the opposite direction) and is therefore not so easy a target.
The role-playing game "Paranoia" come to life.