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Wow, just looked at JSON5 and it's everything I could've ever hoped for! I remember distinctly looking for a JSON alternative that supports comments, trailing , and single quotes. This does all that and more. Now how long until it becomes standard (supported by python's default json library, browser's JSON.parse, etc).
Almost 200 comments as of now, but no one mentions Lua tables as an alternative to JSON?

Yes, you have to include the runtime, but the size of it is all but guaranteed to be smaller than whatever library you need to parse YAML or TOML or XML (or JSON in many languages.) Smaller than some fonts.

The syntax is almost the same as JSON, but you can use comments and multiline strings. There are also APIs for just about every language imaginable.

You do sacrifice an enforced lack of programmability unless you're self disciplined, though, and Lua does index at 1 instead of 0, which is annoying and objectively wrong, but still less of a gotcha than some of the crazy stuff YAML does.

... that said, I do also feel like anything touching the web stack at all should probably be using JSON just because javascript engines already parse it.
I hate to be this off topic, but also 'Heist' is a great movie which features a lot of social engineering and exploitation tactics to drive the plot.
Why isn't json5 used more? It should be pushed until it becomes the defacto standard.

https://json5.org/
"...three Alcanivorax species that were isolated from 10,400 m water supplemented with hexadecane were able to efficiently degrade n-alkanes under conditions simulating the deep sea, as did a reference Oleibacter strain cultured at atmospheric pressure."
> It's also fun to hear non-technical people at work talk about "Jason files".

Ha! That one always makes me smile. One of the best exchanges I’ve heard was something like:

“... and we’ll have JSON handle all the serialization”

“Jason? Oh we hired a new engineer?”
well it's 1000 times which in math speak is often described as three orders as in 10, 100, 1000
The intentional lack of comments cements json's position as a (human readable) data interchange format. It's not designed to be anything else. Which is fine. There's nothing wrong with a file format being focused on one goal.
Whilst no studies in these instances, early to tell. But blocking and deplatforming don't stop them being themselves instantly. Human nature is about fairness, people who feel they are unfairly treated, as they would by being blocked and deplatformed - will become more driven. Also banning anything has been proven not to work as well as intended. Look at music as one example of human nature and songs that wouldn't even chart, get banned by radio stations and boom, they suddenly chart without any radio or TV play. That was the case before the internet and such mentalities in humans still exist. Something that nobody is interested in - gets banned and suddenly people get curious about it and even if they didn't want it, will show more interest that they did prior to the ban. It's those people who are on the fence that will seek out those banned items and if that happens in isolated bubbles without balanced input. Then you see how it can be counterproductive.

But alas proof in these instances will only become apparent down the line and will go unchecked and unbalanced until then. That may well be a problem, maybe not. But it all gets down to wait and see, and that most often - never works out well at all. More so when the ban hammer has been played.

But you are totally correct and is a case of no simple solution, though I do feel banning is an extreme solution.

Yes the whole good-faith aspect is key, we presume the best and any bad-actor has a field day stamping all over that good-faith default, which sadly can change that good-faith default into a cynical pessimistic mentality and that is just depressing. But then we know that one bad apple can spoil the bunch. Just as true with humans.
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Yes, IIRC it's a script you have to run periodically.
Yes.

To be precise, after `(server-start)` is evalled inside the Emacs.app process, whenever the command line `emacsclient <file name>` runs anywhere, inside or outside the Emacs.app process, the Emacs.app "visits" (opens) <file name>.
Could be a good idea to send events in batches, so the app collects event counters locally and only sends it in bulk every few days (exact interval being random). That way there’s no specific date/time associated to events, just that “for the past 3 days the app has been opened X times”.
How about permanent "Do not disturb"?

People can still override it if they have to and you can catch up with all the static whenever it suits you.
I had to implement the Haversine distance for a data mining home work as well. We were given a list of the worlds capitals and we had to use openstreetmap api to get the latitudes and longitudes.

Then we had to implement hierarchical agglomerative clustering by hand, only using the dendrogram function from scikit-learn.
It certainly correlates, especially in other Asian economies like South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
It's almost like if different config languages have their pros and cons, and each can be useful in different use cases.

I do wish though that JSON5 would become more widespread, as that basically solves every downside of JSON.
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> Fuck quoting/escaping, it will work 99% of the time.

Encouraging this is why bash scripts scare me.
What sense of "harm" would it count as? If you entered a market and an existing competitor said "You harmed me, apologize," would you? If you were a doctor with an oath to "First do no harm," would you feel ethically obligated to never take business from another doctor?
At least XML has comments and you can simply duplicate the last element in a list without fear of forgetting a comma.

XML has other problems though.
A ping pong ball does have a hole but slightly differently from a circle in that the hole in a ping pong ball is 3-dimensional whereas the hole in the circle is 2-dimensional.

One needn’t embed the circle in a higher dimension to count holes. In the following sense a circle has one hole: the fundamental group of the circle is Z. That is, if you pick a point on the circle then the ways to go on a walk and get back to where you started are, modulo boring things like turning back on yourself or how fast you walk, to go round the hole in the middle of the circle clockwise an integer number of times (so 0 is staying still and -1 is once anti-clockwise). If you look at another shape, say a line the fundamental group is 1 as there is no nontrivial way to return to your starting point. On the surface of a torus (think inner tube) it turns out that you can go round the central hole (eg the whole bike wheel) some number of times and go round the small hole (eg the cross section of a bit of the tube) and it doesn’t matter which order you do them in. On the other hand if you take the shape made from two circles attached at a single point this also has two holes but unlike the torus it does matter which order you go round the holes. A path is described by some sequence of abcd where one cannot consecutively write ab,ba,cd, or dc: let a/b mean go round the first circle forwards/backwards, and c/d go round the other circle forwards/backwards then the sequence describes what to do.

I’m not quite sure what you mean when you say restricted to a plane. In some sense a circle does not exist embedded in any space and it’s holefulness (being topological) shouldn’t depend on the space it’s embedded in. If you do embed it into a plane one can note that the circle partitions the plane into two regions (call this one hole) and two circles would partition the plane into three regions (if the circles intersect more than once then this is really equivalent to multiple circles). If you put a circle into R3 (or S3), one can count holes by looking at the shape of the space minus the circle again (in the way talked about in the video)
>did you know that many shopping malls track you with license plate readers?

As well as cell-phone tracking to analyse footfall around the shopping mall (i.e., high-traffic areas, low-traffic areas).
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My representatives do not listen to me.
I have bad news for you. Just assume that they are not reliable and don't get exited. Ignore the breakthrough news, they are probably badly reported in the press article, and the original article is probably an overhyped preliminary trial.

Some trick to recognize good articles are:

* It's five year old (preferably 10), and has been reproduced with consistent result an extended by others independent research groups.

* Have a preregister trial, with a randomized control group, and it is double blind. (A I missing something?)
“Anyone?” That isn’t accurate because you’re ignoring the doubling of the standard deduction. Higher income people who itemize would be the only ones affected. And with the reduced tax rates offset some of that lack of SALT deductibility. That SALT change only really affected less than 7% of taxpayers (10.9 million filers out of 153 million who filed returns.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-tax-deduction-on-2018-tax-...
(Forgive janky thesis-ness) https://bit.ly/2P7w6cq
In the recent-ish drama about FB's memo regarding their culture that valued "connecting people" regardless of the cost (even safety), some employee comments[1] were almost cult-like and seemed to confuse "integrity" with "loyalty".

> “I look forward to working with Mark and the other directors as the company builds new and inspiring ways to help people connect and build community.”

It appears their priorities haven't changed.

[1] I included a few interesting quotes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232909

[I should probably disclose that the one regret I have in life is giving the author of that memo (Boz) his first programming lessons]
Sure, but that won't help convince someone who's justifiably worried about putting their primary device out of commission.
Where are you getting that 50% estimate from?
One thing I haven't seen anyone comment on yet was the article's illustration of the technology...

I think it did a good job of hypothetically showing how phone data could be collected in a geofence and explaining the process of narrowing it down and picking a potential subject. Regardless of the merit of this approach, I think NYT did a great job here of illustrating the process in a way that non-technical people could understand.
> How is it the only option?

It’s not but it’s a lot easier for many people if they don’t realize they have the money.

> If withholding is less, what’s stopping people from saving the reduction?

Reality. It’s no different then walking around town with a couples $20 bills vs walking around with your pockets empty. Sure you could just not spend any of it but it’s a hell of a lot easier if you don’t even have the option.

Not having cash on hand and being forced to make due with less is surprisingly effective.
pihole? you have got to be kidding. i’d trust basically anything else than a dns box.
Personally, the main reason I don't like XML is that it's too verbose.
Please give some examples of your favourite/magical places in LA! (As a foreigner I've gotten the impression that LA is a huge superficial city without a soul. Would like to balance that with something else.)
I took the Thalys from Amsterdam to Paris last week for the first time.

Pretty poor design. There's a horizontal section between two windows that prevents you from looking out of the window comfortably, and the whole experience is extremely cramped.
State and property taxes. Not everyone paying exorbitant property taxes is that high in income. Also, income distribution what it is today, 90%tile income is still middle class!
Current policies where? In the US ( and the west? ), current policies are highly favorable to females and unfavorable to males. In japan, I'm assuming it is more favorable to males than females.

So population isn't dependent on which gender is favored since both the west and japan face population decline and low birth rates.

I think education and wealth is the factor that is causing decline of birth rates across the developed nations. It's the only common factor between the US, Japan, Korea, Europe, etc.
I agree JSON is problematic; mostly because of the lack of comments and the unnecessarily unforgiving syntax. But this author doesn’t really provide an alternative. Just setting PHP vars directly?
It’s a waste of time to use classes, if all you’re doing is hacking together 500 lines into a stable enough heap to generate the graphs for a paper.

Not all academic code is that bad, but the heft is definitely towards that end of the pool.

I got really familiar with the distinction, because I spent a while translating PhD project/demo code into actual products for $JOB. It’s definitely mostly in making things secure, stable, maintainable, and debuggable that you lose most of the time.
If I understand it correctly - there is a limited number of these Visas and this mega-project used up most of them.

If true, then this scheme is indeed taking opportunity away from Harlem and other areas it was intended to help.
>they want to eventually disable or turn off matrix.org.

What happens to everyone on matrix.org?
It's the _entire_ point of the piece. And it's not really all that much of a political statement. The message is pretty clear: don't send people to die in space for stupid-ass political reasons.
In retrospect I'd delete it if I could. I was imagining it inside a Dilbert cartoon in my head and it seemed funnier than it was. Again, I'm sorry for it, mental health issues are not a joke, I should know that. And I should also know that the tech community finds them less funny than others do, and for valid reasons.

(...hanging out with ppl from the healthcare field made me too used to cruel/gross/insensitive/politically-incorrect/borderline-sadistic jokes, always forget that the rest of the world is less desensitized to death and suffering than us :P)
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Fair, you are absolutely correct. Science is in building models about how nature works. Mathematics is in the business of proving, I guess. I think we are engaging in unproductive pedantry while going away from my original point.

I want to emphasize my point again - we have 2 arguments. Argument A and argument B. A is presenting scientific evidence, in your corrected terms - presenting a model of climate change. Argument B is anecdotal evidence. The fact that they are both argued on the same stage gives the audience (who may not know anything about A or B) a false assurance that both A and B are arguable and therefore, they are on the stage. It is fine for casual conversations, I am speaking about large debates that we still fucking have about whether Earth is flat. It is equivalent of "Trolling" and should not be entertained.
I think the challenge is you don't know where the "runner" you're tracking is going and the variety of surveillance systems they tap into is a pretty big unknown.
That's one of the reasons I use AdGuard on my android phone. No problems with ads and trackers anymore.
Stop asking 'How are you?' Research says these questions make small talk
And typically lower-paid people have higher deductions on their taxes (versus withholdings) and usually get the larger refunds. So much so that they basically depend on it. That's why everyone is in such shock right now.
Meanwhile, I've never been one to get a large refund at tax time. And I've always planned for my big annual expenses upfront (sometimes using an automatic bank account transfer to "incrementally save" for them).
> And don’t use any vehicle with a license plate that can be tracked to you, or the area around your house.

And don't use any vehicle which has navigation system or live traffic info screen.
And what's the least painless? Yaml? I worked with many configuration files, the only way to deal with the big beasts is using GUIs. There are tons of free and paid and most of them cost ~$50.
Thanks for the link, that I wasn't aware of.
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Any time I learn anything new it's never "wow, now I am smart", but always "ohh... I can't believe everyone but me has known this thing all this time".
Carmena is communist, an "elpais" is a leftist newspaper. They are partial and you can not trust them on this. Specially now that we are under elections.

An 8% difference with last year is nothing in Madrid. Madrid has big differences in pollution depending on what it rains, and specially on the wind. Pollution is bad there when there are anticyclonic weather and thermal inversion.

Madrid has very clear skies, it is like Denver,Colorado. The near mountains filter the low clouds. So at night most heat is radiated, making inversion frequent.

Carmena has created chaos in Madrid, an enormous congestion, just ask any taxi driver. I talked with people in the Politecnic University in Madrid in Winter and some levels of pollution were higher this year than last one(last year rained a lot so it was very clean).

I'd bet those numbers have been cooked to make Carmena look good. Most of the traffic goes now around the perimeter created and those places are way worse than last year.

In Spain most of the Media is controlled by the left and now also the leftist Government, that directly controls public Media(In Spain public Media depends on taxes, not like the BBC or Media in Europe).

Carmena is not a great technical person. She acts on feeling and ideology. Facts care very little to her.
only? 11°C is huge!
I mean, that's exactly how kcal count is measured - a portion of food is burnt and the energy released is then measured.
I commend the author for attempting to make this subject more approachable to people less familiar with networking, but it’s always tough to present this and understand how much you need to explain.

- zone: you can think of as an SOA, start of authority, for a set of records. For example: there is an SOA record for example.com. In addition there are NS records that express what nameservers are responsible for being the authority, trusted server, of the zone. Often zones are expressed in a single file, and loaded into the authoritative server, and it contains all the additional records for the zone, like A address records.

- public: in this context probably is referring to the fact that it’s exposed and reachable from the greater internet. Often people create internal private zones that only work inside a particular network.

- hop: a network hop is a router on the network, and internet. Each represents a hop, this is important for things like the TTL on a UDP packet (distinct from the TTL on a DNS record), each hop decrements the packets TTL by 1. This is really important for multicast packets.

- block of IPs: generally refers to the CIDR block, which designated a routable network. 10/8 means all addresses that match 10.x.x.x, where as 10.10.1/24 is the 10.10.1.x network.
Look at these pro-establishment anti-assange comments on "hacker" news. They are mindlessly parroting the same thing they hear on msnbc, foxnews and cnn.
> Why do we have a system that says justice was served?

Because it was. There was a criminal investigation, it was processed judiciously, and as a result the man was cleared and released. None of this was based upon a _single_ piece of evidence, but multiple facts that supported each other.

The only "injustice" I can detect is that he wasn't bailed out while waiting for a trial.. but the article suspiciously doesn't touch on that subject, so I have nothing to go on there.

> It’s cruel and unfair.

If he has a civil issue with his employer or with the state or it's officers, then that's a separate question and he absolutely has the right to pursue it for remedy if he chooses.

> This dragnet police tactic will scoop up more bystanders and probably convict more than a few innocents as well.

You make it sound as if the police _only_ used location data to make this case and the arrest. The article shows that they didn't and further shows that the actual murderer had used Mr Molina's car to commit the murder. It's nothing like what you describe.
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You can try MITM-ing via Wireshark or Charlesproxy but it won’t let you look into the packets if they’re using certificate pinning.
It is not sarcasm. Yes, they love working with me, they learn new things from me and they use it. Generally their face is like "o_O I wish I've learned it before". I use build-in functions of PHP and Java in way without loops, there is nothing unknown. I don't write Erlang code. Here is an example what I mean;

<?php declare(strict_types=1);
function fibonacci_nth(int $n): int {
if($n === 0) return 0;
if($n === 1) return 1;
else return fibonacci_nth($n - 2) + fibonacci_nth($n - 1);
}
function fibonacci_series(int $n): array {
return array_map('fibonacci_nth', range(0, $n));
}

And here in Python

class Fibonacci:
def fibonacci_nth(self, n):
if(n == 0): return 0
if(n == 1): return 1
else: return self.fibonacci_nth(n-1) + self.fibonacci_nth(n-2)

def fibonacci_series(self, n):
return [self.fibonacci_nth(x) for x in range(n+1)]
"With all that area, we can be pretty sure that a Stalinist authoritarian state got up to all sorts of evil shit."

What do you mean specifically?
related discussions:

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342677

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11072718

mirror: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1116939111368097792.html
Please read the PDF I linked. The whole point is that even massive populations can be subject to permanent declines resulting in extinction under the right social conditions.

One might as well say the two thousand rats in the article had nothing to worry about because there were so many of them - but the peak is exactly where the social collapse was irreversible.

Again, I agree that seven billion is not a sustainable number of humans. In terms of resources and environmental damage, seven billion is a catastrophe. What I’m saying is that population declines may be heralding a different kind of disaster.
The fact that Trump is threatening the EU with $11 billion in tariffs pushed the EU together with China [1].

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-china-summit-result-assis...
Her sentence was commuted she was not pardoned, which is an important distinction.

But still, yes I broadly agree with your position.

Civil disobedience comes with consequence and that consequence shows the states true colors IMO.
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Yes I like Dhall, I also had a go at my own one a while ago: https://github.com/willtim/Expresso
It is easy to ignore the reality of human nature especially for those who are struggling.
Even then, I don’t think you can ever really learn even one mainstream language in depth. For something as ‘simple’ a C every compiler is slightly different and includes different flags and run on different CPU generations and this stuff is constantly evolving. A language like Java has a giant and evolving standard library plus multiple compilers etc. And that’s ignoring any simply popular libraries etc.

Really learning what you can safely ignore in whatever context is the most important part, everything past the basics is domain specific.

Having said that, I have read several language specifications which can be useful for general understanding. But, that’s simply the tip of the iceberg.
By doing a proper architecture design and data analysis before writing a single line of code, instead of coding away without any sense of direction.

Delivering a good result out of that process, requires knowing algorithms and data structures tailored at the problem space.