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Yes, JSON Schema describes documents/resources, not entire APIs on its own.

Even Hyper-Schema (to the extent that it's implemented at all yet) is a resource-by-resource system, not an API-scope system.
Might seem dumb but the thing that drove me away from Mathematica are the stylesheets. Mathematica used to have a useful stylesheet that visibly separated input, output and text content. But at some point, I think version 8 or 9, they removed that stylesheet. All the remaining stylesheets either don't properly distinguish input and output, or look like crap.

I lost interest in reinstalling that stylesheet whenever I had to install Mathematica on a new system and consequently, I lost interest in Mathematica. Wish they'd reintroduce it as an easily selectable default sheet. Jupyter has a much better default stylesheet but Jupyter lacks ease of use and functionality.

Edit: The stylesheet I'm talking about was called NaturalColor and there even is a stackexchange thread about its disappearance.
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17323/did-ma...
> then sue them for price dumping

you don't think Boeing has a few attorneys on staff providing legal review for its business decisions?
It's a nice spec to make it sound future proof, but I am guessing the ability to run at max visual settings at 4K60 will be the criterion most people will judge the GPU on.
Kings Quest V had TONS of instances where if you didn't react to a situation immediately, you'd lose an item that would be required later and you wouldn't realize it until you got stuck. (Throwing the fish at the bear or that shiny thing in the nest before the bird picks you up).

KQ6 and 7 were setup so it was impossible to get stuck, but 5 was not. KQ3 had that annoying path you had to transverse and time limits until you killed the evil wizard. I think you could get stuck in that one too, but I don't remember KQ1-4 as well.
Really excited to try the new SQL interface. The old one was less than pleasant to work with.

The Unity stuff is kind of unexpected and I’m curious to try that out too.

...Now I just have to see if my student license lets me upgrade...
Did you know that the pyramid at Chichenitza is a full calendar tracking the precession of the planet as it relates to the stars?

That they have encoded in that building the 13 28-day lunar months, the 72 years for precession to take place, the diameter of the earth etc etc etc..

Its a far more complex building than people realize.

WAY more mathematically sophisticated than a sculpted pretty cathedral.
I'm very into mechanical keyboards, and I switched to ortholinear layouts a couple of years ago to improve my technique (the grid layout doesn't allow you to cheat with your ring fingers). Typing is a purely physical act for me now (I am also a vim user and editing text feels like sculpting clay), and the funny thing is if I actually try to think about what I'm typing I can't remember where to put my fingers. It has to be completely subconscious or it doesn't work.
They should arrest Zuckerberger, I'd like to see RICO applied within the ranks of a single corporation, epic trial.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
Good, fast, & cheap - Pick any 2, at most!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
precompressed content at 4K h.265 is pretty damned good at even relatively high compression. I also prefer the degredation method h.265 uses over h.264. For 720p-1080p it can actually go both ways, the higher the resolution the better h.265 is as the compression algo.

However, that means nothing for live streaming as generally speaking "live stream" compression really tends to suck a lot. And as to the above, a lot of devices don't do well with 4k h.265 streams for playback, but getting better.

Also, I really don't think I'd notice going from 4K to 8K for home video, maybe for some gaming, but even then I'm doubtful. Also, I'd expect 8K gaming on even next gen's console to be closer to Wii model quality than what we see in 1080p gaming today.
Notre Dame Burning
Google Verdict: Clicking on Privacy Policy Is Not a Consent
One of the directions the company is taking to address this is to allow for running some things as a free tier on the cloud.

But I think the open vs. closed source discussion in academic research is not really about that: lots of Mathematica code is fairly concise and highly automated.

Let me make an example: suppose you're minimizing some complicated function and you claim to have found some minimum with Mathematica. Your source code looks like NMinimize[complicatedFunction[x], {x, 0}]. If I wanted to reproduce your result I would not need to use Mathematica, but access to the internals would allow me to see what tricks I need in terms of minimization method used, whether or not extended precision was necessary, etc...

Being able to rerun that black box minimization independently for free is not really reproducing my result, because we might both be observing the same bug in Mathematica.
Yeah, lets censor what people can see. Sounds like a good idea.
Ahh yes, the Total Perspective Vortex.
Real world is rarely driven by necessity but by happenity. Lots of thing could happen without X,Y,Z in theory; but the reality is that exclusive titles on slightly specialized hardware capture developpers mind more than PC
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I've read about this topic before and when I saw the link I hoped that there was news, but there isn't. If you count how many neutrons remain, you get a different answer than if you count how many protons are created, the effect is a good deal larger than the accuracy of the measurements, and it seems the logical answer is that sometimes a neutron decays into ... something else. That would be new physics and would be extremely cool. We still have no idea what dark matter is, it could be the first real lead.
Then take a college elective and stop wasting everyone else's time because of your lament.
Ask HN: Do you freelance on the side? why not?
> building repeaters

so... sorta like a WiFi access point?
but how/why would 5G increase coverage?
That depends on which browser you use.
If I pay a dollar more for the same thing, I, the buyer, lose a dollar, and the seller gains a dollar. Can you explain how that's not zero-sum?
Oh god a smart person
Why wouldn't they is already in my first post: play broken phone in school and see what I mean. 400 years = 20 generations. How accurate is the retelling of things that happened just 5 or 10 years ago... and for which pictures, books and video exist for evidence? We are in the post modern era where we have to make distinctions like personal truth and objective truth.

Amazement comes when reality exceeds expectations.

If this isn't just the case of pareidolia or cherry picking data:

It seems I see maintaining an oral history that retains any connection to reality over hundreds of years as amazing.

That is because I see human communication as highly flawed, even in today's day where recording and reproduction are easy. Also, think of education; how much more standardized and advanced it is today and still people have a hard time passing things on accurately.

Some people think of human communication as less flawed than I do. So I guess there would be no amazement for them.
I think the first time I heard about it might have been on this Planet Money episode: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

But I'm not really sure. This Google search links to a bunch of papers on the subject. It's a well explored area of research:

https://www.google.com/search?q=repeated+prisoner%27s+dilemm...
Yeah he’s like not always nice, but he’s certainly not how I thought.
The streams convey a much better personality than his talks or his writing.
Has anyone done a deep dive on 5g health concerns? E.g., 240-some scientists and 40 doctors signed a letter of discouragement (or something), claims research indicates 5g interacts with human biology in poorly understood ways: https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/5g-networ...
For the low, low price of 2 gigabucks each.

For an idea of scale, the entire VLA was built for ~80 megabucks. The entire Atacama Large Millimeter Array was built for 1.4 gigabucks.
Ask HN: Adoption of 'modern' C++ in physics/astro community
Long time away. Broadly speaking, looking to get current for computational physics. My Fortran is reasonable and likely easy to refresh, but I was never big into C (and less C++) so that requires a fresh start.

I know adoption of new language features (let alone entire languages) can be glacial in many fields of physics and engineering. Where is the most reasonable point to start in C++? Is C++11 the sweet spot? Is most new code gravitating to at least that revision? Have legacy code bases been refactored and would going with C+11 hinder understanding of any that have not?
We had an RFC for Pi types [1] but in the ended, decided it was too much, too soon [2]. The "const generics" RFC [3] adds a minimal, forward-compatible from of this, and is on track to land this year.

1: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1930

2: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1657#issuecomment-268... and https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1931#issuecomment-304...

3: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2000-cons...

We may or may not end up with them someday, but we need experience with RFC 2000 first.
Disney+ and the broader streaming-video-on-demand market
The lack of a good “intro to task and small project management” MOOC or book is a serious problem for our industry’s ability to onboard junior engineers. I wish I knew how to write one, but TBH I don’t know any principles myself except one.

Lots of people say “just do it and multiply by 3” without appreciating that The important part of estimating tasks is coming up with the task breakdown and identifying the risks.
I'm surprised because I incorrectly assumed passenger comfort was mainly correlated with the mass of the aircraft. I.e. small planes get blown around more.
Was reading recently about viking trips to North America (c 1100 AD?), which they surprising called Vinland. Grapes are not viable in north eastern Canada, which indicates that they traveled quite far south.

Unless of course, like Greenland and Iceland, the naming was a marketing ploy.
Its a good default.
It's definitely not the pattern that doing worse once snowballs inevitably into future years, at least not on average, because students' scores still always assemble in a nice bell curve.

I think a better model is that you are not likely to stray too far from your "true" ability, since even if you forgot (or missed) everything from previous years, you could still learn a certain amount in just one year (and probably you remember some things).
Snip-single line code snippet manager on menubar
Tesla went in the opposite direction, the anti-Prius design. Maybe it was intentional, but when I see a Tesla on the road (in the Midwest, not super common like in California), I have to really look at it while I ask myself "is that a Tesla?" because from some angles it could be a Jaguar, a BMW, an Audi, any generic luxury car. Nothing about it screams "look at me!", it seems designed to blend in.

There's nothing wrong with that approach, just presenting you with a counter-point. One of the most successful EVs on the market is intentionally designed to stand out in a crowd (the Prius) while another is (I think intentionally) designed to not stand out.
It comes and goes but every so often you get a generation of cars looking kinda weird. The logic is that it's better to inspire a reaction, postive or negative rather than being beige.
It has typical Keras net types and algos and nice interactive widgets for watching it run. It works on CUDA as well.
Show HN: ExpanDrive for Linux
If the hardware is even capable of 8k30 it should be able to do rock solid 4k60, let alone 1080p60
Yes, Vissim is expensive. It is professional software for a niche market. I don't know the exact cost we pay off the top of my head but it is in the multiple thousands a year for a single seat network license.
Just vomit out some squiggles. There's no legal requirement in any situation for your signature to correspond to anything.
You mean when the tax rates on the wealthy were very high?
> Really excited to try the new SQL interface. The old one was less than pleasant to work with.

Cool! I hope people find it useful, that's where most of my past year and a half went :)
Demonoid Founder 'Deimos' Is Believed to Have Passed Away – TorrentFreak
> As I understand, they're a little bit magnetic because their constituent quarks are charged.

More than a little bit. The neutron's magnetic moment is about 2/3 the magnitude of the proton's, and of opposite sign.
d'oh! 1983
I give this a lot of honest thought all the time.

My conclusion is this: it's easy to say "well, because the government is picking winners and losers." And it's true. But let's assume government will always be here (anarcho-capitalists are generally imbeciles) and it will generally rely on big industry.

So it's not necessarily a market failure. The businesses have a steady stream of income they can rely on because, well, the government probably isn't going to change any time soon. Also, these businesses are experts at forming relationships with the state. It's probably what they do best.

So if government will always be there, and will always spend into the market, what's the solution here?

Limit business size. A progressive tax on the size of any company once it reaches some number like 1000 people (1% at 1000 up to 90% at 1M+). Putting downward pressure on company size does a lot of things: it eliminates a lot of bureaucracy, it creates more businesses (and competition), and it limits the power any one business has (political or economic).

If the government decided "wow Boeing's planes suck nowadays" they can shift their contract and not worry about ~150K people losing their jobs which is a political dumpster fire.

More competition, more choice, more ability to change. I'm sure there would be downsides, but I have trouble thinking of downsides that outweigh the upsides.

Of course, I'm not a dictator, and passing any kind of tax law like this after the fact is going to be a no-go.
It should be underscored too that this is a large part of why the city government is hugely angry about this whole situation, even if they can't go on record about it.

The city agreed at huge cost to fight for the One Touch Make Ready laws to use the city pole infrastructure. They agreed that would be the city's "beta test". The city has a relatively well dispersed pole grid with only a single clear owner (the power company LG&E).

The city never agreed to the "nanotrenching", but Google's lawyers have made clear that by agreeing to "beta test" anything the city also agreed to "beta test" everything, including "nanotrenching" which would not have passed even a basic civil engineer inspection had it gone through appropriate planning channels.
I guess that would explain why Sony got rid of the option to run Linux on the PS3. With businesses buying PS3s as cheap servers and not buying any games, that would definitely be a bad deal for Sony if they sold the PS3 at a loss.
They aren't "preconceptions". A preconception about the book would be if they hadn't read it, weren't familiar with it, and had opinions about it anyways. Flash Boys is a bad book. I'd argue that your desire to immunize the book, which is largely unrelated to your paper, from criticism is harming the case you're trying to make about distsys flaws in DEX's.

The paper is good! The surrounding context you're trying to provide about how real-money markets work, perhaps not so much.
At this point, the hardware on the PS5 sounds powerful enough to provide backwards compatibility for the PS3 (and all of its predecessors). That would appeal to some people who have old consoles/games collecting dust in their basements/attics.
>Gone is your childhood home, gone your school, gone the people who defined it. it's nice to have something around that seemingly lasts forever like the earth and sky. Makes us feel home, when home is long lost to time.

What makes monuments like Notre Dame or the pyramids special is that they DO imbue this sense of continuity. Everything else in our lives comes and goes, but a few things we as a society come together collectively to say "This is special and worth preserving." There is a special feeling of connection one gets from that sense of unity across time. These are the things that give us a sense of shared history and a shared future destiny. And it has the effect of simultaneously making you feel individually small and insignificant, but also important and part of something grand.

The first time I visited Paris I remember one of my most dominant thoughts was that nothing like this will ever be built again. There is so much in the art and architecture that, by modern standards, would be deemed wasteful and extravagant and a suboptimal use of resources. We don't value aesthetics in the same way. So when these things go, they're gone forever. Even if remade they will only ever be an imitation of a way of thinking and a way of life that has gone extinct.

They won't even serve to remind us of those old ways because the gestalt you get from layering generations of use and the peculiar artifacts of the material culture that created it will be gone. That's why people mourn. It's not just about the building, but the fact that the building anchors them to a sense of tradition and continuity.

And it's not the first time these things happened. It was mentioned that before it was a Christian church it was a temple to Jupiter in that location. Removing the old pagan monuments was a conscious effort to FORCE just such a break from the past. To say the old pagan ways are over and to sever any sense of continuity with that old culture and their old Gods. I'm sure it was just as troubling or traumatic then too.

We still have some collected myths and stories from the Romans and the Norse and so on, but a lot of these were written by Christian converts who were sad that the stories they heard on their grandparents' knees were going to disappear. They may have converted, but they felt like this was something important that needed to be preserved.
Yeah, that's a good starting point. Maybe not just cryptocurrency users, but "people who have expensive digital assets on a computer that runs untrusted code".

Although, it kind of seems like, the more expensive you digital assets, the more you just need to a) hire a full time security person and b) insure your asset.

I'm not sure how a new OS would fit into that.

It seems like it would have to be people WITHOUT a lot of assets who would be the initial customers. People who can't just pay a security person to go over their images.

So maybe casual crypto users.

But wouldn't they be better off just with a custom dongle? A dongle isn't running untrusted software.

Also, isn't part of this technology that it squeezes a little more performance out of a machine without leaking information?

That takes me to the comment below... cloud hosting platforms.
A Darth Vader’s Guide to Building Chatbots
> If they are moving with the speed of light no time passes for photons

No, the concept of "time passing" for an object moving at the speed of light has no meaning. That's why "lifetime" has no meaning for a photon if it has zero mass.
There is such a thing as negotiating too hard on price. The deliverables have lower cost to benefit than if you paid more money. Or worse no deliverables. Worse than that fatal realized liabilities.

I worked with a group that designed telcom IC's. One of our customers developed a new product. Which then failed in the field. The parent company had to issue a recall. Destroyed all remaining inventory and canceled the product. All because someone jacked the microphone supplier down about 5 cents on a part.
Paging Dr. Allcome....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOovtZXYqj4
> is entirely a position of inexperience

There are a lot of inexperienced software engineers and very little good guidance written for them. What is a new CS grad to do when asked for an estimate? How can a new grad learn to produce accurate estimates within 3 months?
I recently bought one of the Star Lites from these guys: https://starlabs.systems

Very nice machine so far. My only real complaint is the trackpad. Coming from years of Macs and a Pixelbook, it was a shock to the fingers.

The 13 inch machine has a glass touchpad, so presumably that’s not a complaint there.

Either way, reasonable price, works well, arrived very quickly.
In addition to the good points raised nearby: The data rate from radio telescopes is enormous.
Mathics is neat, but it is mostly an interface for a small part of the Sympy library and tries to mimic in a partial ad-hoc way the Mathematica syntax. Mathics also seems to be on life-support in terms of developer activity.

Sympy or Sage are much better examples of open source computer algebra systems, but they lack the pattern-matching weirdly-lispy language design of Mathematica (the Wolfram language, which while certainly weird, is very powerful).
F9 has multiple IMUs. Won't be accurate enough to fly a cruise missile through someone's window, but if you're sending a big enough bomb it doesn't matter if you're a few hundred meters off.
Parkinson's Law. Increase in 5G bandwidth will be filled with next-gen media.

Cable boxes will be replaced by subsidized free smartphones in exchange for "always on" subscriptions. No more home WiFi for low-end market.

Personally, the industrial 5G IoT applications are far more interesting.
> Personally, I'd like a nice large wall size screen where I can "spread out my work" and read it.

> Throw in a Minority Report interface so I'm not stuck with a mouse and keyboard:

Remember the gorilla arm.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
They’re not that common actually and hard to spot since space is mostly empty. This was pretty much the easiest one to detect.
Yeah, this is sounding like a good angle to start with. Target users are people who need to squeeze as much performance out of hardware as they can without leaking information while running untrusted code. So, cloud providers seems like exactly where to start.

Cloud providers who target security-sensitive users who also don't have a lot of money (to just pad the hardware budget) would be ideal.
Sony Clamps Down on Sexual Content in PS4 Games
I’ll confirm, as a crew is dragging/trenching fiber as we speak (I’m looking out the back window watching after ordering them pizza) at a family member’s home in a suburban community, to be terminated on the side of each home (fiber to the premises).

They ran aerial fiber to the neighborhood, and then ran the fiber under each street, with the final run being placed in the backyard easement between house rows (with a Ditch Witch doing the heavy lifting).

Family member is going from AT&T DSL for $40/month with 3Mb down/1Mb up to $50/month for 200Mb down/75Mb up (with a two year price guarantee and no data caps). It’s quite the deal.
I wish I could say I was surprised by this... but I am not.

What I am really curious about, are any of these companies linked to Apple?

Considering the very public stance they have been recently taking. The article does not specifically mention them either way (and they are the only of the big ones missing).
YouTube Fact-Checks the Fire at Notre-Dame with Facts About 9/11
> non-issue? simply block out the ports?

From the top-level comment:

> the process even circumvented around my firewall protection to make sure it could communicate back to their data center

It seems like either this doesn't work or the firewall was configured incorrectly. Obviously we have know way of knowing for sure what happened in this case, but have you verified yourself that blocking the ports actually works for this?
this happens all the time on reddit and it definitely worries me a bit. People post what is, for all I know, complete fiction and people seemingly take it as fact. Point out that it could be made up and watch those downvotes fly...