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> The basic idea is to have an expressive programming language where all constructs are differentiable. Since the composition of diffeomorphisms is a diffeomorphism, (...)

No. It has nothing to do with diffeomorphisms (which are necessarily between spaces of the same dimension), but with piecewise differentiable functions.
You make it sound like you don't know a lot about medicine here. A good nurse who's been out of the field for 10 years will eventually get back up to date, but it's not going to be in a week. Or even a month. A lot of nursing is about understanding the meds you're dealing with.

Also, I contend a good programmer who's been out for 10 years still has the ability to be a good programmer. Sure, they're not going to know whatever language/framework is popular this week, and they'll probably be slower to pick up a new one than somebody who's up to date, but I contend they'll be productive in less than a month.
> AWS tech is less-dependable

How so?
This is one of the many reason why China is blocking foreign digital platforms and rolls out their own copies.

This way they have complete control of praticing their own norms and policies on their platform without large foreign compines saying what they should and shouldn't do.
Pretty perfect summary and the reason why I pick native for side projects and electron for paid work (unless explicitly requested).
I have a high end QLED Samsung TV. Horrible, horrible. Audio over HDMI does not work. Had to use optical cable to receiver. Apps hang and have to be reinstalled to recover them, or power yanked at wall socket. It randomly switches from TV or Netflix/Plex app to "HDMI2" or whatever when watching a movie. Doesn't matter if using an external device like an Apple TV - so you can't even treat it like a dumb display, which was my fallback for my previous "Smart" Philips TV. (It only had horribly slow UI, but was stable.)

The panel is top notch. QLED to me is a perfect balance between the over-saturated colors of OLED, and the gray blacks of LED.

But Samsung and software... it never works. Sync photos from Android phone to PC? Oh, the PC software only does 1000 photos at a time. Then you must delete 1000 photos and start over, rinse repeat. That's 22 times if you are helping a friend backup a few years of photos.

Each time I encounter a Samsung device with "smart" anything in it, I think, no it must be OK this time. It can't be that so disparate divisions all produce crappy code, over the more than a decade now I've been following them. But yes. Every. Fucking. Time.
What lorca does: it shows a message box telling the user to download chrome.

What is possible and easy (and what I would do if I was shipping an app using it): silently download chrome on first run if Chrome is not already downloaded.

That's an obviously good idea from the point of view of the user.
Resembles R dplyr pipelines using magrittr, although i find the dplyr version easier to read.
Kara: Why not just be more stringent on kicking off offenders? It seems like you tolerate a lot. If Twitter ran my house, my kids would be eating ramen, playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and wearing filthy socks

I feel like Kara Swisher is the most misunderstood tech reporter. In the sense that outsiders think she makes a lot of sense. SHE DOESN'T. This question right here shows her ignorance of tech (how insanely challenging it is to track every damn thing in the whole world and make out what's/who's right/wrong).

Kicking off offenders? Let her please enlighten us on how to decide on who to kick off. And she will be the first one with a placard "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" if someone of her fancy gets blocked on Twitter or similar sites for saying things that SHE likes.

The hypocrisy of these people pleasing reporters is just mind boggling. Specially for someone at her level. (she had got Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on stage).

Also ramen and RDR2? Golden combo. You go kids!
That experience you talked about, being able to really quickly come up with solutions starting from an already established and working configuration, was one of the main motivating factors behind the making of Ludwig too! Basically I had a model, and they asked me first to add an input feature, then to add another one, then to add an output feature. Every time I did it with generality in mind so that the following time they would ask me it would require less time to do it. In the end the final solution is that it just costed me to add a for in a YAML file. :)
Apollo's marketing game has been ridiculously on point. They are the only GraphQL client in the ecosystem that is fully compatible with any GraphQL compliant server [0]. And since it is pretty good, whenever one has to talk/market/propose anything about GraphQL in the community, they end up cross-marketing for Apollo.

[0] Relay has its own spec and can be used only if the server supports it. Other GraphQL clients are either not well maintained or do not support as many features as Apollo does (caching, subscriptions are two features that come to mind)
"Very expensive" asymptotically approaches "unsolvable" for large values of "very".

I do get that colonizing Nevada is nowhere near as glamorous and sexy as colonizing Mars. But if we can't do it in Nevada (and it is far from clear that we actually can) then Mars is just hopeless. You could do that experiment for a tiny fraction of the money being invested in launch vehicle development. If the results were negative, you could save an awful lot of money.
About NPM
npm是世界上最大的软件注册机构。来自各大洲的开源开发人员使用npm来共享和借用包，许多组织也使用npm来管理私有开发。
From my (naive) understanding it seems that one graph would not exactly be right, one graph per bounded context might be more likely. I think one graph might fail when one entity means something different for different clients. Imagine a SAAS system where customer means any currently paying user for the main saas, any prospective or current user for marketing and any enterprise user that has signed a deal or wants to sign one for enterprise sales. There's just no way to map those three into a single customer type. Similarly, in a school management system, a student, with all his personal details, might be one entity for a school nurse or the dean, but n different entities for a teacher who teaches that one student n things. How would you map that to one graph?
I love your positivity, and agree with your overall premise, but let's not get too carried away:

> catch a nap in an actual bed, use my cellphone and wifi, collaborate with colleagues, eat good food

* Can you recommend a fast train service with affordable sleeper cars; I'm not aware of one?
* Mobile phones frequently drop signal moving between cells on fast trains, as anyone trying to stay connected to a meeting will have experienced
* My experience of train wifi (at least, in France, UK, Germany, Switzerland) is that it's also patchy and unreliable (does it rely on the same patchy mobile networks?)
* Almost without exception, the food I've experienced on trains is very similar to that available on budget airlines - plastic-packed ready-made soups, noodles, sandwiches, etc.

Socially and environmentally, though, it's far more pleasant on a train. :)
Sadly, it doesn't even slightly interest me if I can't insert anything I have on my pile into the feed. It's an all-or-nothing thing. When I get interested enough, I'll probably do something really hacky.
I think it was her who did a terrible interview with Elon Musk last year. Missing the points, changing topics, ...
If I understand what you are describing this is how PyPy works.
Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
Maybe my information is wrong or outdated, but that's what I read.

https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204579749-Some-...
>The page is written with the philosophy: if you don't know what all these terms are, you don't belong here. Which is fine for a random Github repo.

It's also fine for a page meant for a specific audience. It's not like they want to attract random developers working outside security.

Whenever someone says something akin to "Hey that project's page didn't explain/market their offering well enough for me!", an obvious counter question is "and who said their intention was to promote it to you?".

Sometimes the complain is legitimate (e.g. a programming language or project that wants wide adoption should explain what it is clearly and attractively in its webpage). Other times it's just that not everybody is the intended audience, and they explain what they do well already if you're the intended audience (in which case you know the terms the use, etc).

>I'd be curious to know about HN's sorting algorithms, this topic seems such a niche thing that I'm amazed this page reached #1...

Perhaps enough people know about this stuff already and voted it as soon as they saw it? I didn't know what Red/Blue teams are, but there are several security people here that do.
1. Most word processors have revision control and multi-author options. They even allow comments etc.

2. You have all kinds of open formats such as MS Word, RTF, OpenOffice, that can basically export to anything you want.

The only reason I do see is that you can use the tools that you already know, such as code version control and your code editor. But other than that, it seems strange to try to do this thing in plain text files. Because then you have all these problems that shouldn't be problems in the first place.
And further down the lake of Zurich was this one planted in 1860:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.2305482,8.6713386,3a,60y,287...
Lean data in practice
autotranslation: "Npm is the world's largest software registrar. Open source developers from all continents use npm to share and borrow packages, and many organizations use npm to manage private development."
> You can literally watch a video at any pace you want.

True in a literal sense, but irrelevant.

In order to change the pace a video, you need to actively interact with the video player; it's hard or impossible to get into a state of flow[1] if you need to constantly press buttons to pause, skip or replay parts of the video, change its speed, or find the specific second you want to analyze.

This affects the depth of reasoning about the concepts you're getting from the media. In a written text, you can naturally pause and reflect upon a paragraph, or re-read recent paragraphs only by moving the eyes up, slowing down at particularly difficult or interesting sections.

This state of mind of "intense mental concentration" when reading is a good basis for learning and reflection, and can be combined a more powerful range of options when reading; with video you can also get into that state, but then the video moves forward uniformly, and the pace at which you're confronted with the concepts is defined by the media, not your mental processes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
What's the point? Then why does Twitter verify if there is another account by the same name name when one opens an account? They could just associate the password with a concatenation of the username with a random number. The same point.
So, there's kind of a point here; it's nonsensical to say that the call to "punch Nazis" isn't a call to violence. But this is why I put "from a position of power" in my original statement. The President declaring someone an enemy is very different from some randos on Twitter declaring someone an enemy. It's rather like the Chinese Army declaring Tianmen Square Man to be "confrontational" by standing in front of the tank.

(Anybody going to make the free speech defence for those people you cited?)

I'm not really expecting anyone on the right to realise that if they want to call for civility they need to police their side, starting from the top; but that's the best way to stop this escalating.
Money can buy you good therapy with no waiting list. Which would teach you the tools to seek and maintain happiness.
> macOS Messages (aka iMessage) has been rendering text chat using HTML views for years, and it doesn't use gobs of memory.

Keep in mind that the OS and the hardware it runs on comes from the same company that does iMessages. You shouldn't discount the amount of control that brings.

Contrast that to people who have to work with different OS platforms and hardware specifications.
Yes, that's true, but asteroids of that size are easily detected. We know where all of them are, and none of them are on a collision course with earth. If we ever find that size asteroid on a collision course, we will have decades, probably centuries, of warning, and it will be fairly straightforward to deflect it. The real danger comes from medium-sized asteroids that we don't see until it's too late to do anything about it. Those can destroy civilization in a worst-case scenario, but will not cause homo sapiens to go extinct.
In the UK the BMA _is_ a union for doctors.
Yes, I wasn't sure if the distractions were there to prove a point or if it was just ironic that the site was bombarding its own article with distractions.
Books, sliced by chapter, in an RSS feed reader.

So I can read, say, a NYT article, then chapter one of a book, then maybe a blog post, then chapter one of a different book, then a long-form article, then chapter two of the first book.
Estate Tax, Fine. Inheritance Tax, OK. Death Tax, NO WAY
I know this,

You might want to try meditation, it let’s your brain dump these thoughts and then be more present.
The Bay Area is a bubble. A huge bubble, but still a bubble.
It's interesting to see the development of Red team tooling over the last couple of years.

It's obviously necessary for red teamers to continue to advance to be able to cope with improving Blue team technology.

However Red Team tech. is, by it's nature, dual-use. It's equally useful for "real" attackers to have these capabilities as it is for people emulating real attackers. The nature of open source makes these capabilities quickly distributable.

So these capabilities will help "real" attackers in the same way they help red teams...

Terminology - Red Team - Set of security professionals who emulate "real world" attackers in an attempt to find exploitable flaws in organizations systems. Blue Team - defensive security professionals who's job it is to detect and respond to attack from real atteckers and red teamers.
I am not particularly interested in remote-only or remote-first companies. I am mostly interested in tech companies of >10k employees who also hire remote software engineers
> snappy enough to run
> Electron is a new brainer

Not everyone on earth is a dev/gamer/video-editor. For regular people, electron is a cancer that needs to be nipped in the bud. Remember, 91% of the desktop on earth is Windows (meaning regular USD 300 machines). And of them I'd wager less than 10% fit have machines where electron is snappy (1.2K Thinkpads).

What the earth needs is a better cross platform native GUI framework. NOT electron.
The very simplest of reader tactics. On the Internet, for anything posted, it's stored when read, elsewhere after the read.
Web2 is built atop the structure engeineered to provide millitary communication in the "nuke war" scenerio.
How will you keep your copy in that scenerio?
Merging AI and Blockchain isn’t hype overdose – it’s future of Self-Driving
Haha, wow. That triggered my webdev PTSD.

At least nobody mentioned Classic ASP.
How do people even submit URLs more than once on Hacker News?
Funny how you're a Zuckerbitch, though.
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They did this when I first moved to the valley in 2013. Found them sponsoring hackathons and giving away GCP at 10k-50k free first year for just participating, prizes for winning hackathon was, I believe, actual cash plus 50k+ more GCP. But not sure if they kept up the sponsorships.
You are right. Moreover, never give any personal information to any social media corporation, right? There is also an advantage for Twitter: they can claim that they still have active users which are not bots.
Wikipedia is usually a good place to start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Energetics_and...
Speaking as a non American, reading this thread, theres obviously a tremendous amount of division here.

What I would like to ask though, is this the America you want projecting to the outside world? The BBC is British, are they also fake news? If so, what reasonable means are there for the rest of the world to get this news.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, is that international, and domestic news are distinct. People are obviously more emotionally invested in domestic journalism. For me this is international news, it isn't fake news, in the same way as that natural disaster isn't fake news. These people aren't competing for my votes, I'm not paying their wages.
I think aws also did a great job keeping competition "under fire". They release so many new services, so quickly (and in amazingly alphaish-at-best quality), that they are always perceived to offer the most complete cloud infrastructure.
The journalist failed to explain "Laplace transform" part unfortunately. How something like complex variable operation happens in the brain. Most likely the original researchers meant something different.
I'm glad to see how this debate has matured from focusing on the technical downsides to focusing on the business and end-user benefits.
But at the same time, whenever I have Blender open, effortlessly displaying eight different 3D views and UV mappers and the Spotify app, almost crashing my system by playing music, I can't help but wish that more developers would walk the extra mile for the user experience.
Anyone who lived through the IE6 days has every right to be worried about a diminishing number of browsers / rendering engines.
in the clause you signed to delete or deactivate your account, you give that username & account up after the 30 day window.
I have different experiences with reading than most. When I'm reading and notifications come in, I ignore them as distractions, much like one would shake off and ignore an annoying fly. I don't know whether the fact that I'm usually listening rather than reading (I use a screenreader) makes any difference.
I find this title a good example of framing. From the article:

"On the basis of an analysis of register data on an annual level, we can say that during the first year of the experiment the recipients of a basic income were no better or worse than the control group at finding employment in the open labor market"

So you can say "free money didn't help people find jobs", or you could say "free money didn't discourage people to seek jobs". The connotation is a bit different.
Yes, ICEs also needs to be eliminated as soon as possible. Switching off bitcoin is likely the easier of those two transitions.
Same. People think some very big, much-fawned-over companies do comprehensive usability studies... when they basically don't do ANY.
As far as I know CGT is mostly of interest to mathematicians, because there are some groups whose study require calculations that are absolutely impractical to carry out by hand, such as presentations of the sporadic groups. Or maybe you need to know how many nonabelian groups of order 2652 are there and throwing it to a computer is just the fastest way to find out or you need to compute conjugacy classes or stuff like that.

Computational algebra more broadly however has many applications to cryptography for example
Show HN: Look mom No code
Microsoft said in September 2018 "about half Azure VMs are Linux." [1]

Of course, that leaves it open what they mean with "VM" here. Are they including all the VMs running in Azure, including those powering Microsoft PaaS offerings (like App Service and Azure SQL) or just customer deployed VMs.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/
These businesses are not sustainable because their costs exceed their income. It's perfectly possible to make profitable and sustainable news outlets. The Times of London is profitable and has been for years, for example, because it put up a paywall and creates journalism people are willing to pay for. The Daily Telegraph also posts healthy profits.

I'm afraid there's a a very clear correlation here that people seem to be in denial about. There isn't a problem with people paying for news. There's no problem with the internet and there's no need for new business models. News can be profitable and for some firms, it is. What's not profitable is freely distributed left-wing agenda journalism like Buzzfeed: the market is saturated, and the people who make it do it primarily for influence and not to build a business. As a consequence they not only woefully over hire, but they are also loathe to put up paywalls and take other obvious steps more conservative, more business oriented media outlets have been willing to take.

A simple contrast is between the Guardian, which had as of a few years ago over 1000 journalists, no paywall and massive losses, with the Times, which turned a profit. To illustrate the irony here is an opinion piece in the Guardian asking whether this "joltingly unlikely thing" is "worth it":

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/07/is-profit-wort...

> Murdoch’s flagships are locked behind a barrier that throttles traffic and, arguably, relevance. But they made £1.7m last year.

Well, is being a sustainable business worth it? Is it better to be able to pay the bills or be "relevant"? These are probably not questions most working people have the luxury of asking, and given the state of the Guardian's finances, soon it won't be a luxury they have either.
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While entry-level actors in Hollywood might struggle indefinitely to find enough very small jobs (maybe even a single day) to qualify for SAG membership, entry-level software developers easily get full-time positions, with a duration of at least a few weeks and more realistically a few months: they are immediately past the stage of "entering" anything and in need of unions.
> My preferred interface would be something like the
> relational algebra where relations are represented
> as typed values in the host programming language and
> operators are normal method calls (or binary operators,
> depending on language flavor) and importantly,
> intermediate results can be assigned to variables.

Much if not all of what you're asking for can be done today at the database level with modern SQL affordances (CTEs, etc) and vendor-specific stuff like stored procedures. You can write functions that return tables/resultsets, assign those results to variables, etc.

There's not a host programming language database library that exposes those things in quite the manner you seem to be asking for, but that's not a limitation of these SQL-based RDBMSs themselves.

In the realm of what's possible right now, you could of course write your stored procedures directly in .NET languages (MSSQL) Python (Postgres) etc.
With a focus on Candy Crush! It just makes me sad...
Er, but the account name you used to use wasn't taken, because you deleted your account. Doesn't twitter make it clear in their documentation that if you delete your account, your account name is returned to the pool of available account names? And, if that is the case, I don't think it's an unreasonable way of handling the situation.

Re: your hypothesis about twitter wanting to present everyone who leaves as suspended: This is highly, highly unlikely and you'd have to provide significant evidence to the contrary.
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