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>I also fully expect the younger generation to rebel more than we did. You see it already on climate issues, with children refusing to go to school if they won’t have a future anyway. I suspect they won’t want to keep our surveillance state or our HR centric view on society either.

I don't see this in my experience. I expected my stepkids' generation to all be real eco-zealots, totally concerned about everything my generation and before have done wrong. In practice, all of them that I know are a cross section - some are quite eco minded, but a lot aren't. They aren't all as PC as I expected them to be (ditto - a cross section, including some who are strongly anti). Most of them are just completely absorbed in their own lives, via whatever social platform is currently most popular.

None of them give a monkeys about their privacy, being tracked or anything else - they're totally blind to all these issues, and think that I'm a complete loon for bringing any of them up. I get the 'this is the future old man' routine fairly often, and none of them think that the consequences I'm concerned about have any relevance to them. (They range between 12 and 19 years old, FTR).

I appreciate this is anecdotal, but I don't think that the next generation will be the saviours we were expecting them to be. I expected them all to be totally tech-savvy and miles ahead of me - most of them don't even understand the basics of how the Internet works, let alone any of the details. It's the magic of the Wookie Hole Witch as far as they are concerned.
It's at the discretion of a judge if the person declines the on-the-spot fine.

Judges waver a bit on this. Here's a blog post talking about the offence, and about a 2011 case: https://www.6kbw.com/publications/articles/section-5-of-the-...

I think, but I'm not sure, that the offence isn't in the word that is used, but in how the word is used. I think if he'd said "I'm not fucking doing that" he'd have been ok, but if he says "fuck off, I'm not doing that" he isn't ok. But I'm not sure about this.

It is a bit worrying that police so frequently use public order offences and I wish they'd reduce the use of them.
By multi interpreters do you mean several interpreter processes without shared memory? (or only limited memory sharing)

CPython can do that too, but this isn't really multi-threading, and it only bypasses the GIL in a very trivial sense.

But yeah, keeping the GIL is probably the only reasonable way to go if you want compatibility with existing extensions.
If you don't have any idea how to solve your hard problem, just claim that magic exists and call this magic Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Neural Network to make it sound more scientific.
If you are asking, can I learn a language enough to enjoy literature and studying the language without engaging in conversation, the answer is "yes". I know lots of people who do this (especially in Japanese since a lot of people only study it in order to enjoy manga and anime in Japanese).

Interestingly, there is a prevailing theory that even if you never have a conversation, you can eventually acquire the language (see the work done by Stephen Krashen). There are examples of severely abused children who were able to acquire language without being allowed to converse. I would say it's not the fastest way to learn, but it seems it may be possible.

The main thing is that you need to be able to make a mental map of the language and then check your mental map against reality. Conversation is a good way to do that because it allows a native speaker to quickly point out problems. There are other ways to do it.

A lot of language is culture, though, so it can sometimes be hard to truly understand some language without having the same experience. Usually this requires experiencing social events with real people, which also usually requires considerable conversation. But if enjoyment is the goal, it isn't necessary to understand absolutely everything.
Is that really that different from the stuff we put on a plate? That too seems reasonably arbitrary as to what's in it.

Soylent is at least somewhat balanced. Everything is in a ratio that someone at least actively looked at. When I cook up a meal it certainly isn't.
For starters, actually enforce the required elements of a DMCA notification:

(i) a legal signature

(ii) identifying the infringed content

(iii) identifying the infringing content

(iv) proper contact information

(v) statement of good faith belief the content is infringing

and (vi) statement the information is accurate and statement under penalty of perjury of authorization.

Last I saw every pseudonymous troll can make claims, not fulfilling (i) at the very least. I remember I used to click some of those chilling-effects/lumendatabase links google displays when they removed some things from search, and I remember I found it rather curious that a lot of these usually where incomplete notices, usually failing (i) (ii) (v) and (vi) (and they only got (iv) right because they emailed and every email has a From:).

"How the heck are they even supposed to know who the copyright holder is? The troll claims it's theirs, the user claims it's theirs, they have no basis on which to believe one or the other."

The DMCA has a procedure for that:

1) Copyright "owner" claims content with google

2) "Uploader" files a counter claim with google

3) At which point google has to put it back after 10 days if the "owner" doesn't notify google they filed an action against the "uploader" in a court.

Yes, this is still far from optimal, for all parties involved, however, it's still a lot better than what google does with ContentID.
Once Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, i became dis-interested in Java all round. I would rather use a programming language not licensed by a huge corporation.

The reason they are a huge company is the way they are predatory towards their customers. Probably why sun didn't survive as well, its kind of sad that this is the way of the world.
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"In the last year, believers in the conspiracy have also been in armed standoffs with the police in Arizona, and one blocked the Hoover Dam demanding the “Release of the OIG Report,” a Qanon-based conspiracy theory loosely derived from the success of #ReleaseTheMemo."

Er, the OIG report is very real. The summary of it was posted to the IG's site the other day:

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190129.pdf
Non-related, but why the author advertise that Navi library so much ? I see it's too complicated for most of use case, comparing to React-Router
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Yes, we absolutely need an order of magnitude slowdown and more memory use on our desktops.

Why should Electron users have all the fun?
Can you humor a dumb question and tell me how you got the manual in your terminal? I'm on Debian, and when I `man make`, I just get a typical GNU CLI util manpage that's five paragraphs of intro and a line-by-line explanation of each command line option. Same for `info make`.
I use a tool from ESA called Snap. It defaults to ~/snap as well. Oh, the collisions.
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There are not many differentiators on cars now either and we still have a range of "different" cars/brands. What makes you think the electrification will change anything(considering all cars will run the same self driving software)?
Good point. Looks like the Firebasee free tier hosting limit is 10 GB/month, so if his speedometer is 1.7 KB, and PWAs only need to be downloaded once by each user, that's ~5.8 million new users/month for free. So basically free forever.
Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 makes it an offence to use "threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour" in a public place. Interpretation of the precise meaning of those words is a matter for the courts; this has historically been interpreted quite liberally, but Harvey v DPP established the clear distinction between words that are potentially abusive and words that actually caused harassment, alarm or distress.

Broadly speaking, you're OK to swear in front of a police officer, but you'll get nicked if you swear at a police officer, which strikes me as a reasonable compromise between liberty and civility.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/5

http://www.mondaq.com/uk/x/175956/Public+Order/Section+5+Of+...
>Ok, now that author feels better, let's move on..? Or what is the purpose of such 'disclaimers' and 'warnings'?

To tell people what to expect going in, so they don't have to lose their time if they're just starting out and looking for a quick high level tutorial etc.
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> The force had put out a statement saying “anyone who declines to be scanned will not necessarily be viewed as suspicious”

Though you'll be stopped, asked for ID (not compulsory in the UK), and fined if you decline. That sounds like being viewed as suspicious to me. It's a shame it sounds like he didn't decline the fixed penalty to get a court case. We're overdue for some civil disobedience.
Excellent point, caring at the deepest level will make any method work. But a system that pushes you along will help. The goal is to be fluent in a language but it's easier if you get pushed towards your goal by circumstances rather than actively having to push yourself.

Example, you can read and practice a conversation by yourself and learn, something that gets harder as time passes, but if you have no choice but to communicate with someone then you will do it even if you don't feel like it.
Is it a PWA? I didn't get the normal "add to your homescreen" popup and manually adding it to my homescreen adds a bookmark instead of opening in a separate instance. I think this is just a regular old website with strange javascript libraries.

The footer says it's based on Polymer and Hugo, perhaps they don't play along well with Safari?

Strange how Safari still has trouble with PWAs, web applications were one of the main selling points of the original iPhone...
The general idea is that you do not get UBI on top of current unemployment benefits, and by having a universal income a lot of benefit programs will become obsolete.

One can for example look at people with part time and compare the average dependence on social support vs those who are unemployed. The assumption is that those with some income are part of fewer benefit program and interacts with fewer social administrators.

Do Finland have a similar system to Sweden where Unemployment benefits depend if the person paid a unemployment insurance when they were employed?
> He seems to be confusing "learn" with "teach". All of the above would be true if he said "if there were someone who knew how to teach new languages...". Lots of people know how to learn, but no one wants to hear about it, because the answer is: work really hard.

Exactly, the author is talking about teaching from the perspective of a _shortcut_ (which most teaching does, since there would be no point to teaching if it didn't enhance the learning beyond making information available), but many skills or working knowledge are "irreducible" from a learning perspective, in the sense that they must be acquired from the ground up.

He implicitly states this goal much later in the article here:

> learn a new language like a baby! Start learning by babbling single syllables and eventually move on to whole words and sentences. Culminate in advanced classroom instruction. The problem is that, taken as a literal model, this will take you 18+ years. This is not a practical way to learn a new language.

We can't assume that something is always reducible (mathematically there are many things that a provably not!), that there is a trick to it that we can cheat nature - that is the old scientific way of thinking.

All language teaching methods i've been exposed to assume this to be the case as they are all based on the idea of bootstrapping the process with our existing native language... I suspect this never actually works, just that a few individuals who are intuitively clever enough quickly and unconsciously discard this relationship as a basis of the new language.

TL;DR when the author debates whether it is actually possible to "teach" a new language, what I see is the question of whether the process of fluently learning a new language is computationally reducible.
Cynefin helps answer these 'why' questions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
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This was my takeaway from the article as well. Even though I have no academic knowledge on the subject, can't say I was surprised to learn this. To me it seems obvious in hindsight, though might be Dunning-Kruger.
I think the simpler approach is to put the police back on the leash. There are no real technical solutions to problems with the law. The law needs to be changed to stop police acting this way.
That's only true if you care about knowing when you are done enumerating.

The definition of enumeration commonly used in computability does not require that you know when you are done enumerating.
> which is 0 anyway because I disable monetisation on principle

I also disable monetization on principle, but I think if a video is claimed by a copyright holder, then YouTube will add adverts in it, even if you disabled it.

As to your other point, a claim is different from a strike from what I understand. A strike is a more serious offense that may lead to blocking the account entirely. A strike can come if you dispute a claim and the claimant is considered to be in his right.
It's a website built to a standard that Google created, and when a site is built that way Google and iOS treat it like an app. It can be "installed" on your phone and used like a normal app.
Sorry. You are correct. I keep getting obsessed with efficiency :-) I also did what you did. However, I have discovered that you can learn faster than that if you maintain 95% comprehension rate (it's the amount that's required to infer language from context). I used to have a list of references on this topic, but sadly I lost it somehow (along with a book on teaching English I wrote -- astonishingly I did not have backups). Since I returned to IT, I haven't had the time to go back to this :-(

But anyway, I've tried the 95% comprehension technique on my students and the results were pretty fantastic. I highly recommend it.
I didn't know about the relicensing, ok, now I have no excuses :E
I think that the direct loss of lives due to the action and a permanent damage to critical to very important infrastructure is the current guideline to declare a hostile act from a nation state as an act of war
UK govt have been slowly chipping away at freedoms we took for granted for decades. The Daily Mail is constantly campaigning to "do something" over some trivial thing or another.

Putting the police back on the leash seems unlikely, to say the least.
If you look through my history long enough you'll see several versions :-) I'm afraid I don't have anything current that's public. Some day I'll try to find time to write up something more concrete.
You don't get fined for failing to produce ID but you can be fined for swearing at the police, which is what happened in this case. If he politely refused to show ID, there is nothing the police can do unless they have reasonable suspicion that the guy was committing a crime
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You don't have to do anything impossible, just something exceedingly impractical. Because we know that the function doesn't halt if its runtime exceeds the busy beaver number for that length. Now, we will obviously not know that for any non-trivial length, but in theory it's fine.
I'm sure some big companies like to make it easier on the higher-ups to accept their products (and the lower class be damned), because that would explain a lot of crap being sold by those "big companies"

It would be very interesting if some evidence came to light in an FCPA filing.
True. But they'd need physical access to the target.

And actually, back in the day when I mailed cash, that was part of my OPSEC. I had a jar full of dust from public places. Working with disposable gloves, I'd put the cash in a new plastic bag, toss in some public dust, and shake well.
You are mistaking laws, and legal culture, with the rule of law. I am very aware of the Germanic / Prussic love for law. Sure, they created an elaborate philosophy that thought it held it's rulers to its exacting standards. And maybe a bunch of them played along.

But it was all tossed out the window the second the Germans found it convenient to let a dictator whisper sweet nothings into their ear.

That's the difference. Not in the fictions the common folk tell themselves to help them feel better. But in what actually happens when some ambitious army officer or legislator or populist upstart decides to grab the brass ring. Is your society's legal systems and political customs and culture enough to render them impotent? No? Then you don't have rule of law. You have rule by whatever's got popular legitimacy at the time.

What keeps the Pentagon from surrounding Washington DC with troops and declaring a state of emergency and anointing a dictator? Why aren't Americans even remotely afraid of this possibility, even though military overthrow is something that happens all the time? Rule of law. Why do many Commonwealth countries still to this day accept Queen Elizabeth as their sovereign head of state, even though she has no power other than to make phone calls? Rule of law and respect for the history and events that got them there.

Rule of law means that a country's population, first and foremost, values political stability over all else. Not that you can just get some smart people to jot down a few lofty principles. Rechtsstaat? Should be in the dictionary under 'farce'. The Soviets used those same principles to railroad people in show trials. Kangaroo court.

This is not an abstract concept. Nations have their states coopted by their militaries and demogogues all the freaking time. Why doesn't it happen in Anglo countries, or if it does, is short-lived and useless? Rule of law. Once a society has it, they will defend it to the death. Americans weren't the most well-trained bunch in WW2, but we made up for it in sheer, murderous bravado.
> “surely there is a app for that!” A quick look leads to speedometer apps with ads and 30MB download weight, and simple screen light that also have ads that weight in at 5MB.

I’m finally groking what rms has been banging on about for so long. It is completely unacceptable that we are running software that does this to the user. Users need to be empowered and able to run code that they can control.
But from copyright point of view, do you actually have right to post those videos with audio? I'm not convinced that it would fall under fair use, so wouldn't you need explicit license to publish the videos?
Oh, and here was I thinking it was just advanced snarcasm. :P
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Very good questions, and something I believe we as a society AND as a profession are only starting to realise.

The truth is, people everywhere say they want security. But that's a white lie. What people really want is convenience. That is also the wedge we as a developer community can work with.

I truly believe that if you can make the secure option also the more convenient option, you won't be able to keep people away.[ß] As far as usability goes, secure and/or hardened software is still atrocious.

The point about meatspace bank is a really good one. Well, as it happens, WhatsApp based banking is a real thing. I found one startup doing that[0], but even before this I remember that somewhere (Philippines? Indonesia? Kenya?) WA was already used for bank customer support.

Now, is that somehow more secure than a well done, well maintained, properly hardened banking app from a dedicated big player? Certainly not. But it's hell of a lot better than a MVP from a company that might be barely in their second year to a basic banking license. It has the benefit of adding useful business traffic to a reasonably secure transport. Obviously it still depends on a known-malicious third party for routing, but then again, for a truly secure communications system you have to assume that you're dealing with compromised and/or actively malicious infrastructure.

Which makes it a very good first step. For any real progress, we will need at least another decade of research into usable, latency-sensitive, information-theoretically noisy communication systems. Secure and ~anonymous message routing is going to be a damn hard problem. (Without the latency part, and assuming very cheap bandwidth, something like a probabilistic K-anonymity based batched multicast might be a reasonable starting point.)

Even then, the usability has to be baked in and considered from the start.

> For noise on secure channels, I torrent random stuff. That all goes through a VPN service.

Now that's a really nice countermeasure. Well done!

ß: Global censorship and blanket bans with aggressive enforcement notwithstanding.

0: Company is apparently called "Absa".
This is not surprising when you have corruption on the highest level and nothing happens about it - Schröder.
Thanks for your feedback. I simply created a basic landing page with malchimp. Cant agree more that it needs to be improved... A lot! For now I'm just trying to validate my idea.
well, in that sense the op was saying disregard the real factors of complex numbers, use only 1 and i.

In sum, I interpret that as a start from binary probability. The bayesian rule for example follows trivially from Laplacian equal-chance decision trees, so I think that's a good hint. Does the bayesian/frequentist distinction play a role here (I'd like to think it's not a fundamental distinction, but I really don't know).
I created this writing-race thingy as a cool way to write faster.

It's a real-time race where you challenge another writer for a specific number of words. The one who finishes the words-count faster will win!

Do you think it'd be useful?
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Thank goodness LibreOffice split from OpenOffice.org. A true blessing in disguise!
Ask HN: real-world examples of HTTP servers in Elixir?
I need to develop some small frontend for internal use at my company and I have absolute freedom over the tech stack.

I decided to take this opportunity to learn Elixir.

The requirements of this project are very simple. I's a server which fetches some data from another HTTP API and uses it to render a bunch of HTML pages.

I'm following the Elixir tutorials on the official site. I would like at the same time to explore a real-world project that implements my requirements, to see what a complete working application would look like.

Do you know of any such open source repo?
Thank you!
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> There would still be the potential problem of people choosing not to work (affecting tax revenue), but this is much harder to predict of course.

I know a lot a people who don't have a job, but do a shit tons of work.
Think of all those retired people building stuff for the family.

People who really don't want to do anything exist, some of them are mentally sick and need help, but I think every one want to do something (at some point in their life).
Has deployments of Oracle software gone up over the long term, or are people beginning to migrate away from Oracle software?
You insert kronecker deltas: ∂M_ab / ∂M_cd = δ_ac δ_bd , and a,b here remain contracted with whatever M was originally contracted with. Then you simplify, δ_ac Z_xya = Z_xyc and so on.
There is a vast difference between randomly labeling some things with a nationality, and labeling everything about a nationality the same way.

If I say 'French car' I don't mean 'sexy car', if I say 'that French dude with brown hair' it doesn't have any connotations about sex or something.