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> or blog post

Already done: https://dennisgorelik.dreamwidth.org/170455.html

> people you need to convince

Convincing other people is a nice side effect. The main goal it to find flaws in my own reasoning.

> convince other physicists

Why physicists, specifically?

The problem is in overly creative image interpretation. That is "information processing" domain which is quite suitable for Hacker News discussion.

I do NOT dispute physics equations that EHT team used.

> "comments were deleted!"

Suppressing critical arguments is one of important warning signs of a scam operation. For example, Theranos suppressed critical feedback too.

Suppressing critical feedback is also deeply anti-scientific.

Why should I ignore/suppress that argument?

You also pretend as if "they deleted comments" is the only argument I have.

There are plenty of red flags in what that EHT team did and I list some of them.
I would adopt a 5G to Ethernet/WiFi router just for the ability to drop Comcast. I would pay a premium to drop Comcast, but I don't have any other high-speed options. They have been so incredibly horrible. What I really want is some means, any means, to have a reliable high-speed connection that doesn't require 20+ hours on the phone and multiple service calls to admit that the connection from their box to my house is faulty. Being able to take my "home" connection with me on the road is just a side-benefit.

Edit: that said, I would probably also be pretty happy with a 4G plan that I could use for this purpose.
This is kinda why I hate copyright law the way it exists right now. Companies shouldn't be allowed to sit on and kill IP that they're not using. Especially when it's part of millions of people's culture now. Copyright law is meant to spur new development and add to the public space. Not give an iron grip for 200 years and the ability to totally destroy the things they create.
This is great stuff. One question -- what about applying the role of the word of the sentence into the weighting, along with the frequency. As in general Subject, Verb and DOs are going to be MUCH more important than, say, adverbs and articles. Is that not done because it's harder to automate vs. just frequency?
People get sent to jail all the time for conspiring to commit a crime yet never following through with it. I spent 10 years in federal prison and met lots of those people.

Do not verbally agree to any illegal act. Doing so is a crime, 1st amendment rights notwithstanding, and regardless of your intent of whether or not you will carry through with the act.
Of course, I don't doubt that. Just saying that a building is more than just a building. China has its own historical landmarks. They also have an exact copy of the Norte Dame: https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/04/article/still-want-to-see-...
Modern economics is a religion of growth for its own sake?
I have done it and only needed to "visit" Estonia by visiting the embassy. (though I have in fact visited Estonia). You can now make an EU company registered in ee entirely online, even more easily than in the US. I have a Delaware company that is a subsidiary of my EU company and it works great -- I only use the Delaware company to do business with US entities and use the EE one for everything else. While technically a multinational the revenues are not large. I am not a citizen of any EU or North American state.

I wish more companies supported the PKI that comes with the E-ID and is similar to the PKI that comes with a German ID card. Right now you can only use it to communicate with a few entities, all listed on the e-residency web site.

It's also a bit of a pain that the ID card is the size of a full format SIM card (1FF -- size of a credit card). I hardly use a physical wallet any more and if I could use the identity online via Touch ID or something like that for certain transactions I believe it could be even more useful.
Good point, though I'll note that streaming games, high-res video, and remote terminals are already available (at least via high-speed ethernet connections), so the "next generation" would be higher quality or wider availability rather than genuinely new forms of media.

My instinct is that there are diminishing returns past a certain point. We're certainly not there yet, but once cellular networks allow you to stream high-definition VR content and upload data at the same rate, it seems like there's nothing more that additional bandwidth could add.

I see it as a philosophical issue... bandwidth is for the transmission of information, and there's only so much information that a human being can receive and provide at a given moment. At some point you're running up against the maximum bandwidth of the human user.
Nope. With the US being more and more hostile towards the EU, and the British leaving, English is only going to be spoken natively by most Irish people. This amounts to around 5M native speakers - hardly a case for using English as the official EU language.

I don't know, but I'd rather prefer French or German to become the lingua franca of the EU. Why?

Because those two languages are spoken by a large amount of population (actually German is close to 100M speakers, that's close to 1/4 of the whole population. French has fewer speakers, but is probably more studied in Europe than German.

Also, those two nations, in their own unique way, are at the very core and center of the EU. Both believe in it, both want it to keep going, thriving.

Call me crazy - but I'd even prefer Esperanto being used as the official European language as compared to English. At least the EU would not be giving an "easy" advantage to American and British citizens, just by the fact of being native speakers.

It just wouldn't be fair to have European kids and adults have to learn a minority language while Americans or Brits would just get it for free.
Raytracing is a good thing, not so much because of the better graphics, but because it enables produce nice graphics with less sophisticated engines and less artist input. A lot of the lighting etc. is currently baked into textures, hard coded, hand-optimized. This takes a lot of time. With raytracing, a lot of this comes "for free", so smaller / indie dev teams can produce games with AAA level graphics.
He could probably tweak a skew normal distribution to make it fit nicely, but it's pretty close to normal.
Just to show you, here's a quick sample https://flems.io/#0=N4IgZglgNgpgziAXAbVAOwIYFsZJAOgCsEAaEAYw...
The stone walls in New England are not ancient, they're from early settlers who cut down the forests and created pastures and farmland. The soil in New England is very rocky, so tilling it produced lots of rocks. The rocks were used to create walls to demarcate property lines. Now that the forests have regrown, there are many forgotten/disused stone walls deep in the woods, but they were originally put there by farmers.

Edit: I'd add that these stone walls are still used by surveyors, especially when the historical records may be spotty, but also just because they in many cases happen to still fall along existing property lines. There _are_ a few "ancient" stone sites in New England of disputed origin, including "Mystery Hill" (also known as "America's Stonehenge"). But there is a strong argument to be made that these were constructed by modern Americans as hoaxes.
Mice having fun in zero-g
The Time Tim Cook Stood His Ground Against the FBI
The manager does receive the blame, and then stuff rolls downhill.
And nothing of great value was lost.
Boson Camera Project
Backhaul generally isn't the bottleneck - you have fiber to the towers, and you can bump the capacity of that with comparably cheap hardware upgrades - however, the available "air bandwidth" per cell is pretty much a hard limit, and to go beyond that you need to build more cells which either requires more frequencies or more towers, which both are very expensive and time consuming.

Perhaps it's different in USA, though, the geography and population density differences mean that the backhaul problems are different than in Europe; but here the bottleneck is on the radio side.
> Even http/1 (which is mostly used atm ) flags any page with inputs with a big red !! Insecure !!

If you're using Google Chrome.

Safari and Firefox don't do this (yet?) unless the page also has a password field. Which seems like the right compromise IMO.
Because 'good accounting' means transparency, which means the truth sets the agenda, not you.

In political reality, you want to own the truth, and establish the narrative, and you never want facts to get in the way.

Would be the cynical take.
It's almost a creative writing contest in some threads. The problem is that just enough situations are verifiable that it blurs into the well written fictional accounts. I spend time on r/BestOfLegalAdvice sub and I have no doubt that upwards of ~25% of posts are fake.
SpaceX's recovered core booster damaged in rough seas
All else being equal, yes. The devil is very much in the details though.
is this why we have petrified wood?
How To Avoid Psychological Traps – “Metaphors to help you see more clearly”
Not at all. You're thinking in antagonistic terms. The EU wants the closest possible link and alliance - this is not furthered by forcing the other party in a position where they are unhappy. What the EU is concerned with is that the 27 other countries don't suffer excessively due to the UK's bad internal political process.

The EU wants legal certainty and had committed to protect the good Friday agreement. That's why there is a backstop. Talk to anyone in Ireland and they are convinced that violence will break out the moment the border is back up. That's why there is a backstop. Look at what UK politicians publicly say about how they will act - that's why it's enshrined in the withdrawal agreement - to make clear that the UK doesn't hold the rest of the EU hostage.
Julia is a great choice as well: https://julialang.org/blog/2018/12/ml-language-compiler
YC Summer 2019 Invites/Rejections?
Waiting patiently for results on our application. Anyone else? The apply page says by 10PM Pacific, but I heard results sometimes come in earlier.
I wouldn't say this is necessarily true in younger generations. I grew up with kids from Russian families in school & kindergarten and the distrust of Russians instilled in you by your parents quickly fades.

Older generations are a bit more problematic in this regard. I would say there's a general hate towards older Russians that still can't speak Estonian, even from younger generations.

However, I would say Russians are generally disadvantaged in Estonia and that's a big source of issues. In my childhood, younger Russians tended to be poorer and therefore were more involved in various criminal activities. Most of my friends and I were afraid of Russians in our area, as they liked to pick fights and generally mess with you.
I'm going to (politely) call you crazy. 2 billion people in the world speak English, and it's the 3rd most spoken language in the world. We've settled on it as a standard in some cases (Pilots are required to speak English). Economically speaking, it's rational to make it an official EU language, in the same way the EU was formed to create a competitive economic bloc. Without it, you lose access to an enormous potential customer base.

No one gets extra credit for tying their hand behind their back (shunning the English language, in this case) in a globalized world.

> It just wouldn't be fair to have European kids and adults have to learn a minority language while Americans or Brits would just get it for free.

Life isn't fair.
I used to enjoy the fortran-to-c ported pre-infocom zork on BSD. I never got into the bigger world they went with but friends spent many fine hours in them.
I read it as a clarification that they were not writing about a PS4 Pro V2, but actually, truly the PS5.
Ask HN: SF Bay area any accountability groups?
I am in SF south Bay (Sunnyvale). I am working on some ideas and could use a weekly/monthly "accountability" group. I want to go there and give an update once a week or so on my work.

Please refer any good ones.
In the dystopian timeline in the movie, they find The Citation's lifeless, sundered husk at the bottom of the ruins of what was once a massive thread. About DNSSEC.
That isn't totally new, I have a version of HP MicroServer with an AMD CPU that has ECC memory.
WhatsApp is default end-to-end secure, and Telegram is not. Recommending Telegram as a more secure alternative to WhatsApp is malpractice.
You might need to just solve them then write MATLAB or Mathematica code to plot the solutions.
But entertainment does count for me and billions of others like me.
Lack of provenance isn’t a barrier to filing a DMCA claim, unfortunately. Likewise, it isn’t really a basis for a counterclaim that I can see.
Ow. Reading that physically hurt me, lol. I'd rather use a marker or a sticker.
Not familiar with GPs use case but TypeScript has a glorious compiler API that could handle the heavy lifting here.
All things considered, I'm glad we don't live under an amateur astronomer dictatorship.
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Easy to tell people to vote with their wallet, harder to provide them with real alternatives.
Yes.

An aspiring head of state that desires personal access to the state's funds will prefer accounting practices that are irregular, and will outlaw whistleblowing on these practices.

You may wish to be a noble ruler, setting just institutions and regulations for the smooth operation of society. A petty ruler would wish to enrich themselves and their friends and not worry about the consequences.
> there were lessons to be learned.

Egad, I hope one of them was that modern architects shouldn't be allowed near a building project. To see the ruins of that beautiful old cathedral next to that atrocity against beauty is almost physically painful.
That's why y4mi said "Event with..."

HTTP/1 clients push TLS; HTTP/2 mandates TLS.
fun site.. any plans for future development?
I guess I should have simply said gesture UI. Of course, I'd like eye-tracking and voice UI too.

I simply said "Minority Report interface" to help people visualize the idea. How about Iron Man's Jarvis? Would you have had a silly little rant over that too?

[Update]

Jarvis video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7RCJvoCMc
Both PS4 and Xbox One came out just as 4K was starting to get into market (prob a bit ahead of where 8K will be when PS5 launches), and it was frustrating that we had to wait 4ish years to get 4k support. Committing to 8K early means the same box will serve the early adopters as well as everybody else without a mid-cycle upgrade.

I generally think there will be limited urgency to upgrade to 8K any time soon (benefits over 4K seem incremental and we're not close to done w/ that transition yet) in the home, but love that Sony is making a strong stake for technical leadership.
I wouldn't get your hopes up. The Register (I know people have opinions about The Register) reported on Atari's press reveal last year[0] and the VCS wasn't actually a thing. So Atari tried to call them out on it, and they posted their recordings of the event.

I personally don't need another TV-connected video game system, and I did enjoy my playthrough of Alone in the Dark (Infogrames is calling themselves Atari these days) but I'm not buying one.

[0]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/22/atari_lempty_box/

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/21/atari_interview_in_...
"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."

That's something I kinda wish more game ethusiasts would pick up on. There's not really a such thing as "4K" or "1080P" or whatever; it's more about fill rates and other numbers and the question of how much you can push at 1080P or whatever, vs. what the developer tries to push.

There's actually a couple of PS2 games that push 1080 (can't remember if it's P or i) with the right setup. But obviously, there's a quality stepdown.

There's no particular reason other than lack of hardware outputs the PS3-era machines couldn't push 4K games. They'd just have to be very, very simple games. I recall being impressed in the PS2 era by Katamari Damacy, which seemed to be one of the few games of its era that noticed that if you only allocate like 10 polygons and a teenytiny texture for a game world object you can have a crapton of things happening on the screen, at a high frame rate, and build a game around it. I can only imagine what a full-powered, brand-new Katamari Damacy would look like on even a Switch today.
Bob?

I think you commented on the wrong article.
the slow pace of how this all plays out is even worse. it's designed to be invisible to the naked eye. nation states have all the time.

I can't recommend Jacques Ellul and his "The Technological Society" any higher. He traces it back to the early stages of the industrial revolution. Also his "Propaganda, The formation of Mans attitudes"[2] is unfortunately not wide enough known in the English speaking world.

[1] https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

[2] https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512
Gautama Buddha was born Hindu, a lot of these approaches to Buddhism were taken from Hinduism, the Gita etc
The "we use the right tool for the right job" mindset looks good on paper but doesn't scale very well.

Most of the time it tends to favor developers who are the most distracted by the newest and shiniest trends.

It is helpful for any dev team to have 2 or 3 programming languages in their toolbox that they can use to solve their problems. Any discussion about adding a new language to that toolbox would need to involve discussions about QA, deployment and long-term supportability. Unfortunately most developers are less concerned about those "non-technical" aspects.
Pleroma federated social networking server built on open protocols
https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/10/03/bob-pars...
He is no longer on the board, and I believe he is full divested (but that's harder to look up).
Your statement is patently false; .5ms worth of research is not much when you're making such a bold statement.
If you have 20M lines of code you hopefully have more than 1 team and you also hopefully have more than one service w/ the right interfaces/apis between them.

As unrealistic as it sound, yes, if you're oncall you need to be able to understand the problem and fix it/mitigate it at 3am. This opens another can of worms around what is worth of a 3am page and how development, deployment and monitoring should be done but if you wake me up I should be empowered to do something about it
You don't need 5G to get that, you can get usable speeds to over 100k people in a roughly 200m x 100m area with wifi and 4G, as OSU has done (1,2).

1 https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2013/08/27/ohio-st...

2 https://www.dispatch.com/news/20180405/ohio-state-to-spend-n...
" this directive, once translated into national law (which, admittedly, could take some time), will probably grant Snowden explicit protection from extradition in some countries "

There's nothing to indicate this would happen.

"the EU parliamentary campaign has just gone into full swing. It's the perfect time for grand gestures, particularly from governments that feel under assault by populist forces."

So the EU is going to make a 'grand gesture' by poking the entity that provides it's security in the eye? For what reason? An intervention into US domestic affairs?

Trump could feasibly respond by pulling US forces out of parts of Europe under threat by the Russians, i.e. the Baltic states which Putin has been trying to drag back under Russia's thumb in the same way they did Crimea, only to be thwarted by a solid NATO response coordinated and backed by the Americans.

And of course the fact there's a trade war brewing for which the Americans have a little bit of an upper hand with a major trade deficit.

It would be a huge mistake for Europe to unnecessarily provoke Trump at this point.
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PS4 (even the Pro) cannot play 4K Blu-rays. I'll predict that the PS5 won't be powerful enough to handle 8K AV2 video or whatever ends up coming out.
Should be fixed now.

RIPEstat now says “2620:101:8030::/47 is visible by 97% of 223 IPv6 RIS full peers.” Yesterday morning it was saying 62%.
Don't tease me. Backwards compatibility with with PS3 AND PS4 would be beyond amazing.
That's, you know, my opinion.

Before English became lingua franca, French used to be it. Another language can become in the future. A globalized world is something I love - yet the world seems to be going in the opposite direction these days.
I love the idea of a robot lawn mower but I hate how you need to lay down wire to create the boundary of your land. It would be nice to see how well the new Roomba one works.
Yep, they were out there. Some folks got really upset about walkthroughs and/or spoilers, as though it was cheating, saying "it was hard for me to figure out, it should be hard for others, too!" Many debates about the ethics of walkthroughs.

So yeah, walkthroughs were popular. Another favorite was Easter Eggs (hidden features). I remember one particular firestorm on my BBS -- an author claimed there was an Easter Egg in the Atari Battlezone stand-up 3D vector graphics arcade game. (For those who aren't familiar, you drive a tank and shoot at other tanks, looking through a periscope and driving with differential sticks). The promise was, if one drove far enough toward the volcano/mountain in the background and fired the gun or spun around a certain number of times, you could reach a city where an urban battle would commence.

Really exciting stuff, right? Of course we now know it was all nonsense, but boy did that ignite a conversation.
At the time it was just crazy enough to be plausible and we were just gullible enough to believe it, leading to many wasted quarters (some of them my own) trying to reach that fabled tank battle city.
This is correct

It is better to be stateless citizen than Estonian or Russian.

It gives privileges in both countries.

Double citizenship are not allowed in Estonia.
> We’ve known for a while that Sony is working on its next-generation PlayStation console — call it the PlayStation 5 for lack of a better name

When you say it's next generation and deserving of the title PS5....whatever.
So isn't it time to establish it officially? I have virtually 0 positive feelings towards the current regimes of GB and US, but the language sure seems like a useful thing to standardize on.
I think there's a distinction between 'you guys' and 'the guys', just like there's a difference between 'my baby' and 'the baby' in songs. If I said 'I want you guys to all stand up' I would expect everyone to stand up, if I said 'I want all the guys to stand up' I would expect only males to stand.
In China, tattoos border on illegal – and they're his life's work
Change that deduction into a tax credit, and you're basically describing one way to implement UBI.

I think it's not obvious to everybody that what you're suggesting is really a progressive income tax, BTW, since that flat rate is paid on different proportion of income, and with a high enough cut-off, it can easily be more progressive than our present arrangement for most middle class tax brackets and below.
Could you name some examples?

I admit personally I'm inclined to agree with coldtea. But one example where I think the stability/quality of the software really did play an important role is WhatsApp. I remember when there were a bunch of competing services, but WhatsApp was the only reliable one. As far as I can tell there was nothing else that WhatsApp did better, and yet they 'won' (at least in Holland/Europe).
Apple and Qualcomm Agree to Drop All Litigation
Stephen is doing a livestream tonight and open for Q&A if anyone wants to see a live tour of v12 features and ask any questions. Twitch: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram and Youtube on the Wolfram Research channel https://www.youtube.com/user/WolframResearch