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Python is used more than Mathematica, but you never read a blog by Guido van Rossum claiming that he changed the world. It's the messiah complex that people find off-putting, not that he has put together a good product.

Mathematica/Wolfram Language is a perfectly fine programming language. It has an amazing standard library. It's definitely worth the money (if you're working in a field that benefits from it). But that's it. Don't call it a computational language. It isn't a new way of thinking. It isn't revolutionary, there is literally nothing in Mathematica that can't be done in another language just as easily (except the CAS engine is world leading). But somehow these mundane blog posts by Stephen Wolfram make it to the front page of HN every few months, so someone must be upvoting them.

So maybe his hype machine is working as intended- he is in charge of a successful company and I'm hiding anonymously behind a keyboard. So what if a few people don't like his attitude, he's more successful than most of us.
If you want even more evidence, look up her medical treatment before her sentence was commuted. They nearly succeeded at killing her that time.
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Why is Huawei equipement more dangerous than American equipement?

Why should Europe follow American policy?

(I am European)
Having a place to live is not a luxury, it is a basic necessity, so it warrants to take a closer look at the reasoning.

> And that’s a good thing too—you’re increasing the tax base of your city.

To say something is good because it gives more money is the capitalists fallacy. There are many examples where this capitalists fallacy leads to situations that benefit a few and damage the vast majority, and sometimes even preventing technological advancements via political regulation or market domination held in place by self-preserving wealth.

Let me give an example. The national or even supranational electrical grids are essential to industrial economies. It's continued functioning is very important, so it is considered a stable financial investment to buy a share of it. The electrical grid is used to transport electrical energy from the producers to the consumers, which often are very far from each other. Selling and buying electrical energy directly in this market is not possible for households. The energy amounts traded there are vast compared to what houses need. Modern decentralized energy production and storage, like solar panels and batteries in homes can provide storage and production capacities that are relevant to the quantities in the electric grid. However, if houses were allowed to band together and act together as a distributed or federated net of producers and storage units, the long distance transport of electrical energy via the grid would be less important for the economy, and thus its stability is less important, and so it's worth as an investment sinks. Depending on how much value the grid was assigned before, this devaluation might "destroy" a lot of wealth, and therefore be bad according to the capitalists fallacy. Yet, the society gains from this technological advancement. Even more problematic is that wealth is correlated with political power, so those that have invested in the grid can manipulate society to prevent this technological advancement.

I can give more examples, like externalizing costs on environment and society, articifial lock-ins without right to repair, and more.

Capitalism is a tried and true heuristical approach to achieve economic and technological advancements, but directly working with the unquestioned assumption "more money" => "good" is worse than myopic, especially when it comes to basic needs such as food, drinking water, housing, and basic medicine.
Speaking of doing things the other way around, could ML techniques be useful for tuning shader parameters and light placements in order to make a 3d scene modeled by a human look as close as possible to a reference photo?

(If so, it should probably be done with multiple reference photos from different angles, to ensure shaders and lights aren’t adjusted badly so that the scene only looks good from the one angle that the computer was looking from when it was tweaking.)
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments or shallow dismissals to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Who is Satan and why there is evil
Best video about this with proofs
https://youtu.be/AWNM1-xYI5E

Funny monkey using phone in video
Don't think just you can use phone
See how he is searching and watching own monkey videos on phone
http://bit.ly/2DS4p2R

See what happened when a lion was trying to kill man
http://bit.ly/2H2zsKc

Best video with proofs
Which showing there is creator of this universe
https://youtu.be/j5HHl6-r3VU

Dogs are meeting their owners after a long time see in this video the reaction of dogs and try to control your cry
http://bit.ly/2JmjuNw

Funny cats are teasing babies in video just try to control your laugh
I am sure you can't
http://bit.ly/2LJu58n
Somewhat off-topic but I appreciated the combination of your analysis, mirimir's response, and your admittance that the initial analysis was not altogether correct. Especially online, it's rare to see people admit that they're wrong especially in the face of a (presumably) factually based reply.
> I didn't realize this about US law but if you've already been convicted of a crime OR they give you immunity you can be forced to testify.

Yeah, and it's not obvious why. The insight you're seeking here is that the right against self-incrimination was intended to be a solution to the problem of forced confessions (torture, etc.). It's not there because of some kind of belief that you really have some kind of fundamental human right to testify against yourself. In fact it's quite a bizarre thing to codify in a constitution otherwise.
Yes, definitely. We did that in SimAirport, basically rendering everything as if it was full 3D and use none of the engine-provided "2D features" (which largely amounts to 'more work on the CPU').

Finding fun mechanics that add to CPU load is awfully easy. ;)
How did you get ahold of an expired key?
Thanks for the tips. I opted for that .content_scroller because when the whole body was scrollable the side menu was really jumpy and glitchy on the Android phones I tested on. It also was doing weird things with the address bar, hiding and showing it in a seemingly random way.

I think you mean `position: fixed` rather than `display: fix` right? In which case the side bar class .side_bar_column already has that. Unless you mean a different class/element?

Anyway looks like I'll have to attack this scroll issue a little more systematically. People usually complain about scrolljacking. I'm doing the absolute opposite, trying to let browsers do their thing themselves, but apparently that's bad too lol. Can't win.
Objection--it shouldn't be the same as it is now. Rather, the IRS should mail you the pre-filled portion and you should be able to use any portion of it you can in filing your own taxes.

The pre-filled return should also have a QR code that allows tax programs to obtain the data.
Realy great result but may it be a major step towards z apocalypse if something goes wrong?
I believe it very sincere. This page is quite helpful in particular, good tips but I especially like the list of apps at the bottom: https://humanetech.com/resources/take-control/

In particular I think the Freedom app is pretty unique in that you can setup web and app blocklists and it is synced between devices when you have it setup on all of them. So you can set a focus time of 4 hours for example and the apps and sites (and entire categories of sites if you wish) you specified will be blocked on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android. Surely there are plenty of apps that do similar things but I think the integration of multiple devices is pretty killer as you don't need to manage each one.

The InboxWhenReady and Distraction-Free YouTube extensions I think are really useful too.
Graphile looks quite intriguing! any experience with it? Recommended?
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion
IT Runs on Java 8
Would you adopt an extra abstraction layer (bugs, maintenance, incompatibilities and surprises included) over your database to get a coherent handling of nulls and a few other optimizations of this level?

I know I'm staying with the nulls. I wish the best luck for them, and if it survives to maturity, I'll haply go get the ~1% (probably less) more productivity they offer. But right now I'm not moving. It's sad, really, but things are stacked against them. Change is costly, so we lose all the small changes that could compose into something huge.
JetBrains tooling does use schema metadata for it's autocompletion. I'm not sure though if it's anywhere close to full-on Haskell autocompletion in the Atom editor (very fiddly and prone to break on minor version changes, I must say).
Gwern referred to this as "yeah the failure case is you unlock a billion dollars of economic output"
What Does Instagram Think You Like?
Except the free file should apply to all returns done by the program. Anyone can download the full version, but without a license key it won't let you see any forms if you are over the limit.
Jeff Bezos unveils his sweeping vision for humanity’s future in space
> I agree that WSL1 was a fascinating project. It’s too bad all that work has gone to waste.

Has it? WSL1 and WSL2 seem to be parallel alternatives, the latter isn't replacing the former now, and it's not clear that it is intended to.
The current administration has already pardoned one American convicted of a war crime and is considering a second pardon for a war criminal Navy SEAL who was repeatedly reported by fellow soldiers, in one case for murdering a young girl in front of other children without provocation. At least the policy is consitent: if you murder civilians we have your back and whistle blowers will be jailed at all costs.

Even former soldiers are appalled: https://wapo.st/2DZl4BJ.
Is the Pilot Era the prosumer 360 camera we’ve been waiting for?
These are some absolute gems here, great find.

As someone with little experience in hardware, what kind of cost would you be looking at for the oscilloscope?
Could 'The Wandering Earth' Happen? A Nasa Engineer Explains How
Phage therapy is a blind spot for Western medicine. It's a new category of drug, which means lots of work to get it through FDA or UK trials, and it's not a single molecule - it's a process. There's little point to taking a single combination of phages, packing them into a pill and ramming it through the clinical trials process - it'll be way too specific to be worth it.

Instead, the entire pipeline - keeping a library of bacteriophages, testing them for efficacy against samples, modifying them for increased virulence, screening for safety - needs to be approved, and run for each patient.

That's too experimental for the FDA, and the FDA is too rigid to allow approval for such pipelines (except in rare cases, like CAR-T immunotherapy.) Plus the UK has that anti-gene therapy law because of a disastrous adenovirus trial that killed six healthy volunteers.

The West is too risk-averse and conservative to make the big bureaucratic changes to allow this. Russia had no such hangups, which is why phage therapy flourished there.
Gil Strang is still going strong, online and in print
How can there be no risk of self-incrimination?

Even if they give you immunity for the specific thing you’re testifying about, what if your testimony reveals that you’re guilty of some completely different crime?
Does ChromeOS have any kind of window tiling solution? My dream is a Chromebook with all my Linux apps and a tiling window manager ala i3.
Show HN: Kog – process workflow engine (PWE) executor
Here+Are+The+4+Simple+Introspection+Steps+That+Will+Boost+Self+Awareness
If you really must use a mapping table, I think you could put a unique constraint on both of the foreign key columns too the mapped tables. That would enforce that every row in one table maps to at most one row in the other
I believe Twin Peaks' intro is actually the longest in TV history. It's a real whopper.
“The grand jury” is not descriptive of what the grand jury was investigating and declines to point out that her grand jury ended years ago.
Yes, I've taught with it in a multivariable calculus class. It's pretty easy to learn, and by the end of the semester the engaged students are doing amazing things. The notebooks are very useful, and will feel familiar to anyone who's used Jupyter notebooks. The language itself is what you would get if Python and all of the popular libraries were programmed by a single person with a common syntax and good documentation.

I probably wouldn't use it for "big data" analysis, but you can use it for just about anything else that is math or even slightly related to math- fluid dynamics, solving systems of equations, statistics, optimization, stock market charts, plotting values on a map, etc.

If you can get someone else to pay for it then it's absolutely worth the money- basically, if you're just a hobbyist then you probably don't need to buy it, but if you need to calculate integrals for your job then you need it.

I realize I've said mean things about Wolfram's attitude before and that his isn't actually revolutionary, but it's still a great product. Kind of like how you can't really call an iPhone X revolutionary, but it's still really good if you can pay the sticker price.
The social media platforms are exactly that, platforms.

The giant social media monopoly’s have deceitfully hidden under the category of publisher for long enough.

Platforms host publishers. The argument that a publisher hosts publishers is not valid.
Quickbooks? Really? I'd think they are more of a merchant service compared to merchant financing...
Is somebody thinking of using this?
How much is that in 2019 dollars?
Starting a comment with a put down like the parent did is not well-received by the community.
How strange it seems, now, the idea of a president somewhat worthy of the office.
Is activism completely useless though? I do think most of it, in particular group-focused preaching is probably very close to religion and soccer teams in engagement, with little critical thinking. However, there is probably a role for voicing opinions and even stating publicly (as in "the emperor has no clothes"). Not everyone is fully informed and those networks of opinions can have a significant/important impact I imagine. Then again this occurs inside close circles.

As mentioned elsewhere, I think by far the greatest threat to democracy is groups enclosing themselves, forming rigid identities like has happened to right-wing (and some left-wing) groups in the West: this makes them far easier to manipulate (by tying propositions one wouldn't accept together with the collective identity). This effect has been amplified massively by technology. You can stay insulated by exactly what you want to hear by visiting certain sources exclusively, or worse -- most people are being isolated automatically.

The solution to this seems quite obvious: if technology is fostering isolation, it could instead foster contact with distinct ideologies, by default. Give more weight (through visibility) to long, well thought out arguments instead of short quips and 'likes'; have some kind of diversity bonus (where people a certain 'ideological distance' away are not given lower weight).

The problem is enforcing this kind of structure on social networks. If most people get a large chunk of their information from social networks, we're being controlled by an obscure algorithm that's probably not in our best interest (instead simply driven by simple profit measures). Given how large and impactful Facebook (and Youtube, Twitter) is, I don't think it should be out of question to regulate those algorithms somehow (given repeated failure to self-regulate). We should have a right for seeing the algorithm implementation, have an option to upload a curation algorithm (given some specified API), and if we want select from a few sensible options, like simple chronological ordering, to the aforementioned civil-discourse-promoting ones (which should probably be the default).
10th Anniversary of Boulder Startup Week
McDonald's is selling a meatless burger in Germany
For citywide elections? The choice is usually progressive and lesser progressive, not even “Clinton Democrat”. Some “Mavericks” will run as Libertarian or even Repub (but never win) just to stick out or get in the ballot.
So this won't make a new D&D character for me?
> Delivering a plane with or without it to a customer had the same cost

Not exactly, surely. The ongoing/recurring costs to Boeing would be increased with the feature enabled - it's another thing that can go wrong and must be monitored, it changes support requirements and the overall software runtime complexity. I assume that would get factored in, somehow...
Hmm, you're right. Must've been user error on that one ;)

I stand by the rest of my points, however.
Huawei doesnt use version control, can't figure out how to update horribly vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, and does the bare minimum to get a somewhat working product out the door: https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/...

The maintainability of networks based on a vendor that can't produce secure firmware is highly questionable, nevermind it being insecure by definition.
> an OS that's actually fun and intuitive for normal people (nevermind me)

That's no version of Windows, in my experience. I suffered through Windows 3.1x to XP to Vista to Window 7 (and tried out Windows 10), and none of these were fun or intuitive, certainly not compared to what I used immediately before (Atari ST) or immediately after (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn).

In 2019, Ubuntu is far more intuitive and manageable for an ordinary person. No going to the internet to download dubious software (or getting malware through the Windows Store, as per my Windows 10 experience), no weird Candy Crush and 'telemetry' (data siphoning) or any of that Microsoft sort of goodness.
i meant every 3 years there is a new, incompatible toolkit. Winforms, Html5/JS, WPF, Silverlight, WinRT, now UWP. Instead of refining what they have they create something new (possibly with less capability like WinRT), and put the previous toolkit into maintenance mode with only minor development.
I wouldn’t be pleased if I had to use a LOB app without sub-pixel anti-aliasing.
I'm not objecting to anything. Simply mentioning that the std deduction is 400$ more for 2019. Peace.
Fun fact, BC has no adverse possession law. Damn shame, I've been living next to an abandoned lot for 6 years now. I could easily afford a house -- but not the land to build it on
PharStreamWrapper – open-source bug poses threat to sites running multiple CMSes
They've had a decade to update to modern OpenSSL, but apparently even using a consistent version through one product's firmware is beyond Huawei's capabilities: https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/...
I like the classic yellow blob design. It's undeniably neutral regardless of race, age or gender. Everyone used it until, well, one day someone told us that we should triggered by it.

When you start diversifying, it never ends because you cannot include everyone and someone always, always feel left out. At least Facebook emoji is still the yellow blob though. :)

I think this, in some way, a common cycle for things.
When thing start to get uniform, we tends to break it apart, and when things began to spin out of control, we try to unify it again.

and the cycle continues...
The opposition has spent the last several years pushing the Adani mine through in Queensland.
From all the languages I learned since high school, SQL is the one that is pretty much still the same. Agreed, it's not perfect but I think it's one of the most stable things there are. New features get added, which creates inconsistencies between dialects. But if you stick to basics, it's all still very much the same. In 2000s XML was added, then later JSON and there will be future support for other formats also to integrate new data types.
The Jews in the times of King David believed in an eternal, everlasting dynasty of kings in Israel. It was supposed to last forever, one king after another, as that was the meaning of the pact with their God.

This civilization was conquered by the Babylonians just two generations later. The rulers were exiled, and only the priests of Levi were permitted to continue their traditions. They proceeded to write the book of Job to explain the fall of their civilization.

Centuries later, the Roman Empire destroyed what was left of the religious organization including the temple of Jerusalem, a great loss considering that such organized religion was all that was left from the Israelite civilization.

The Romans also made disappear, as in made extinct the tree and fruit that was a symbol of Judaism since its beginnings.

Roman oppression almost ended the religion. The Hebrew language was also a dead language (like Latin currently is) for a millennium and a half and it was "relaunched" with the addition of modern vocabulary in the 19th century by academics.

In fact, there's some evidence that most Jews that were living in the Levant area were later forced to convert to Islam, and without the existence and conversion of the Khazaria kingdom to Judaism, the religion would have practically disappeared.

So, your eternal institution no longer has the everlasting dynasty of kings, and it actually only exists because the Babylonians (which you probably hate so much) left the tribe of Levi alone to thrive and rebuild its narrative. It was later persecuted by the Romans and, for lack of a better word, decimated. There's also some evidence most if not all of the original population was finally forced to convert to Islam. So much for an institution that was "built to last".

So, there's almost nothing in common between the Israel kingdom of 3000 years ago and the modern Israel state. The people are different, all the rest of the culture is different. Only common thing is a book. And so much context has been lost that the scriptures require amazing mental gymnastics to make sense to modern people.

Modern Israel will probably last centuries more than its ancient counterpart, but it is very much a modern invention and a modern civilization. I think this modern state was really built to last, and it will be. But it was created in 1948, not 3000 years ago.

What you are demonstrating, is the power of knowledge in books and how it can be used to try to revive lost cultures, including their lost languages. Which is no small feat, but still, calling it a 3000-year institution is such a stretch.
So true that a lot of legacy code is out there. It has tremendous mass and won't be rewritten until there's compelling business value (part of that could be finding developers).
Do you have any more reading material on the political lobbying Bezos is having Blue Origin do? That sounds quite interesting.
Music and movement can help kids understand maths
Ray Dalio on Diversification and Correlation
Legacy IDE Driver Now Deprecated, to Be Removed from Linux in 2021
Density isn't a lock for environmental friendliness. High density structures require environmentally unfriendly building materials relative to lower density structures, and a local environment has a limited ability to deal with pollutants and waste, requiring significant additional infrastructure to accommodate. Furthermore, higher density means more transportation infrastructure to bring resources to the people who live in an area, whereas a lot of these resources could be locally sourced if the density was lower.

I think modern large multi-story wooden structures surrounded by food forests and urban farms is probably optimal in terms of environmental impact, while also being extremely livable.