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We need to stop using "profit motive", "shareholder value", and "rational markets" as if they somehow provide moral air cover for actions that cause easily avoidable deaths and/or massive damage to the commons.
I think the point is, a beginner coming across some code using such esoteric features is going to be a bit lost as to what's going on. With most of Python you can see what it's doing even if you didn't know the syntax before. That's true of basic f-strings, but not so much with some of this stuff.
Even to this day playing from Australia it's not uncommon to have a 250-300ms ping on US/EU servers (depending on the game may be the closest English servers).
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I wonder if it will be a permission users can see an app has before installing for the first time or updating to a version that includes this "feature".
I guess one will have to be even more careful deciding to purchase any apps, and make backups of apks so one can restore a previous known working version without the forced auto updates...
>You can absolutely operate (and even operate well) without understanding the formalisms involved in theory, but understanding them opens up a new level of fluency.

Sure. My point was that if "you can absolutely operate (and even operate well) without understanding the formalisms involved in theory", (and that's for music theory, the very technical language of music), then imagine how more useless math are in this domain.

Not only you can get by quite well without music theory or math (as you say), but you are 100% set with what you need if you also know music theory alone -- math is entirely redundant [1].

[1] Again, for music (playing, composing, etc) not DSP. If anything you need some simple ratios for coming up with tunings, and that's it.
Dude, Cisco, you had one job.
You are not being fair here. Stating that Lion Air has a questionable safety record is not xenophobia, nor is it blaming the pilots when you speak of a chain of events and note that "in some cases, those procedures were not completely followed".

> nothing any pilot could have done so close to the ground [2]

FWIW, the pilots in the doomed Lion Air plane on the flight just prior to the accident flight did just that.

There is enough wrong with the 737 MAX, Boeing, the regulatory regime, etc. No need to become hyperbolic and inaccurate.
I recently stumbled upon the word 'lakh' in the Indian number system meaning 100000 [1]
, which according to Paul Thieme [2] may be related to the German word Lachs, for salmon, referring to the innumerable fish in a swarm.
The way languages are connected in their histories while seeming so disparate today keeps fascinating me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh
Isnt Python just as bad as Java runtime ?
Spoiler:
the vegetables seems to be corn.
Go read the piece though, it's very funny.
Anecdotally, no. From where I sit, the multiprocessing and threading modules still seem to be the main way to to concurrency in python.
Honestly, weak form of Sapir-Whorf absolutely does reflect my every-day experience; I figured it out way before reading about it, by pondering my "inner dialogue" - I run it bilingually, switching from English to Polish and back on sub-sentence level, always using the language that makes it easier to think a particular thought.

> But if not, the burden is not great. One must speak at greater length, using more words, and forming the intersections and unions of their meanings, to obtain the exact nuance that you intend. This is the routine craftsmanship of every wordsmith.

This is a nice way of putting it, but I question how "easy" and "routine" it is. People can do this, which is why strong form of Sapir-Whorf sounds too strong, but it's not free - and like "Trivial Inconveniences" article shows, that's enough for it to not be done, especially if alternatives like "picking up a similar but not-quite-right word" or "not thinking the thought at all" exists.

I feel this could be especially impactful on imagination (the problem-solving kind), which can be viewed as a randomized reverse-lookup[0]. The brain suggests you things connected to what you're thinking about, and - at least in my experience - they usually come up as words or phrases. If you don't have a word for a concept, you may not think of that concept, and concepts related to it. Not that you couldn't think of it, just you usually and initially won't.

One could think of language as a cache of those "intersections and unions of meanings" that have proven themselves to be useful. Viewed like this it's an optimization trick, but we observe that everything we do and think is time and energy-constrained, so such optimizations can be the difference (especially on a population level) between how precisely you think a thought before you accept it as "good enough".

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[0] - Meta: the way I figured out this idea actually involved the brain suggesting me the word "reverse-lookup", and me going out from there. My native Polish language doesn't have a word for "lookup", and especially "reverse lookup", so I wonder what would I came up with if I didn't know English?
That is a stretch, drivers can leave at any time. They can even quit and look for other kinds of work. I don't disagree that it is playing out poorly, but that's because the driving market is a duopoly that was running at a VC funded loss for years to set a customer price that ultimately doesn't work out for the drivers. If instead fares were reasonable and the market competitive then a driver could switch to another platform when terms got worse. Some people even drive for multiple companies at once.

In other gig/freelance scenarios the markets work themselves out, but often suffer from a globalized work force pushing rates way down. In the driver situation, the prices are local, so there is no excuse for the market not to work itself out unless the drivers are not excercising their freedoms or they have no other platform with better circumstances, to which they could find other types of work. It isn't that easy I know, but you have the choice to look and try.
I miss living in the dorms in college. Sure my standard of living is much higher now, but I think I was happier in the dorms surrounded by interesting people.
Especially if you go to local dialects instead of to "standard" English (and to a lesser extent, "standard" Swedish), the similarities are much closer than what you'd otherwise think.
There's talk of doing away with it in Europe: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/26/when-do-the-...
Does ANY country really need 5g ?

Japans population might be dead by 2050
as they outright REFUSE to fix the court system and laws for marriage

Just like
AU
NZ
CA
UK
USA

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How to fix Marriage in the West+EU+JP+South Korea

* One LAW for everyone with the SAME punishment for ALL.

* REMOVE Duluth Model from LAW+Courts+Police

* REMOVE PUSSY PASS

* Fault divorce, not no fault

* False rape and False Sexual Assault to be convicted

* Ban Abortion, its MURDER

* Remove Child support

* Remove Vagmony (Alimony)

* Remove forced 50% of other person's assets

* False rape/assault claim register database

* Kid goes to the BEST person
Not automatically to the mother

* DNA test at all birth of kids

Yet This will NEVER happen since women will
be forced to be actually be EQUAL & ACCOUNTABLE for once
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Still, green peas are similarly rich in protein.
Submit it. I wholeheartedly agree!
People who feel like that should seek therapy. Seriously.
Is it only me or is this whole preprocessed food stuff the most American thing ever?

Why has everything to be some powder in a bucket or some goop in a tube?

It is so strange that people replace animal products with chemistry.

I can understand not to eat animal based products on moral or environmental grounds but replacing those with Monsanto soy and chemistry does not strike me as the proper way to do it.

Do you think the bucketized bean protein powder extracted from peas might be bad for you? Well eat the freaking peas I bet those taste better as well.
As someone who only uses YouTube for music I'm glad that embedded ads are not a thing for music channels. YouTube Premium is worth a thousand times more than any Spotify subscription.
In South Korea the bath place is the cheapest place to crash. Popular to locals and tourist needing cheap place to sleep for the night.
If you’ve ever needed it, and I imagine most people have, it shows up on any web search.

It didn't last time I googled it (because it didn't exist then), so I had no idea it existed.
I have been researching this as a hobby for several months now and have landed on a few "truths" which I will hold dear to me.

- The average human needs far more Omega-3 and far less Omega-6. Supplements of Omega-3 have been proven to help with inflammation (and heart disease, et al).

- Supplementing Omega-3 through fish oil or algae oil, etc. is proven to be effective, in a world where often times supplementation is not a substitute for diet.

- The Western world is less enraptured by spices and vegetables that are proven to reduce inflammation. I know this addresses your question, but does not answer it - there are many foods of this category. Turmeric, ginger, and maqui come to mind.
This is one of many considerations for our higher prevalence of heart disease.

- Supplementing extracts of anti-inflammatory/antioxidant plants has been shown to improve oxidative status in controlled studies.

- Diets low in carbohydrates have been shown to reduce inflammation.

^ I would share links, but I have hundreds of bookmarks and I wouldn't really know where to begin. I'd suggest just starting with searches on Pubmed or other scientific bodies and letting your exploration grow organically. It's a bit of a journey of understanding, and a whole lot of "what seems to make sense". Much of this stuff can not be proven except through trial - the fact of the matter is that there are too many intricacies, unless you care to devote your life to understanding it.

There are sure to be a lot of surprises in terms of what we have taken as truths, along with their dubious conceptions.

You might find studies that are counter to what I've stated, or it might be that your body composition doesn't respond as impactfully to these things as mine has. I am open entirely open to the idea that there are misfires in much of the research I have held dear. Only within the past few years has there been a concerted push toward studies on low-carb diets and the effects of inflammation, but they generally seem to point to these very important truths.

I am crusading a bit because I've been struggling with depression and anxiety my entire life - it took 27 years for me to consider that my diet might be the culprit, and with these changes I have an entirely new outlook on life. I understand that not everyone has these battles, and so do not need to seek these solutions.

But for those that do or must, it's been such a dramatic shift that I hope they will find hope in a possibility, that through research they can find a solution of their own. I never imagined that my mental health could be so influenced by my diet.

As they say (and which I never truly acknowledged): Your gut is a second brain.
If you care about cost efficiency and know how much hardware you need, stop looking at Cloud and start looking at dedicated.

Hetzner's PX62-NVME can probably do everything you need for 80EUR/month. Hexa-core Coffee Lake CPU, 64GB RAM and 2x960GB NVMe SSDs https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-px
The alternative is developing a new aircraft type to beat the competition, which Boeing will avoid if it can due to this massive risk and cost involved; they only have to look at the fate of bombardier for a cautionary tale.
....maybe read the article?
Tangential, but I would be very interested in a census of HN. Does anyone know if this has been done?
I would guess that these numbers will be hard-wired to "Internet of Things" devices, and this is a move to centralize the control of them. If every device has it's own telephone number that can't be modified and a 5G modem built in then the government (via phone companies) has a huge amount of control - sending messages, commands, remotely monitoring them, bricking them...
The protocol is solving a real world problem. They are trying to apply a technological solution to a real world problem.

Many problems could be solved if we could just make every Web developer and company in the whole world take size / data security / accessibility more seriously, but human history suggests that ain't happening, without in practice introducing laws.
How are these allocated under the hood? Wouldn't it make sense to stick all of these phone numbers in an IPv6 /64 at this point, with the "14 digit" just being a convention mapping to some range in that space?
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Most eMMC cards use really primitive wear levelling algorithms.

A simple firmware update to the eMMC chip could make it use a wear levelling algorithm that really does spread writes evenly over the whole chip.
Current implementations simply use a sector till it goes bad and then using a spare till that goes bad, etc. After 1% or so go bad, the whole device rejects writes entirely.

With a decent implementation (like ssd's mostly do), you will never be able to kill a card in a lifetime.
I am not a native speaker and not an author, but from my understanding, they mean that we focus on jobs, not on communities (as society), and then try to patch it later (e.g. go to specific clubs, gather in some places, etc). Moreover, it is hard to jump between social classes, therefore hard to change place of living/your surroundings.

So, in a nutshell, making our lives around job makes it hard (for majority) to live a fulfilling life outside of your job.
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'Science' certainly is divided on the matter, (and I'd say most of it does not paint glyphosate in a great light) which is why Monsanto tries to suppress the science it doesn't like, hires trolls to brigade social media and engages in obfuscation and obstruction.
Though nothing prevents it from becoming "part of the Python language specification" -- except the backend implementation (besides Python doesn't have a specification, it's what the CPython does).
You must be living under a very pleasant rock if you think that low latency, to the degree that client side prediction is useless, is mainstream. Not accounting for routing, drops and mux/demuxing, and assuming that the signal travels at the speed of light as the crow flies, from west coast USA to where I'm at, the latency is 29ms or roughly two frames.

This would be debilitating in an online game without CSP where even the latency introduced by screen buffering and vertical sync may make or break yor game, and in reality the latency is of course much higher, usually around 100ms or higher. Check your assumptions: https://wondernetwork.com/pings
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Boeing is a strategic asset for the US government, of course they're going to survive.
Universities, three letter agencies and private or government actors. At least I would guess that, maybe also a bunch at anti virus developers.
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> yes meetings would sometimes need to be delayed and certain crunch periods had the awkward obstacle of a 3-day weekend for some team members

If both are an issue, then it is a sure sign the company has other issues.
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Maybe I misunderstood something, but I read the text as people (or .. services like the three doing the announcement) offering URLs containing an access token?

As in https://example.com/mlindner/project1/821372asd1786d21das or something?

If you use this approach to manage access to a repository, then .. that gets stored in the .git/config. No need to store a password or something.

(Then again, maybe I didn't understand the explanation correctly?)
Whenever I drop my phone I see the "SimProcessor" service spinning up...

I suspect that designing reliable spring contacts isn't as easy as it seems...
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But is this because it is KLM or because you are paying more in general compared to other airlines?

In the last 6 months I traveled between Amsterdam - Bangkok twice (11 hour flights) both times using KLM, and although they aren't as cramped as some other (cheaper) airlines I upgraded my seat every single flight to get a bit more leg room. But I can't compare to other (premium) airlines yet.
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately this triggers my rant mode:

When branding hits hammers, I think I might quit the human race. Designers fundamentally do not understand that software is a tool that people use to get things done. Constant reorganization and redesign for trends literally robs people of their skills in learning to use software to accomplish their goals.

I've been using computers since the early 90s. Essentially none of the things I learned early on apply anymore. Fuck, we don't even have menus that explain to us in native language what actions are available to us.

I hate UIs and I hate UI designers. Openly. I need zero innovation in the design of the menus for a word processor or image manipulation tool. I am sick to death of learning this iteration of a file manager or settings menu, dock, or toolbar. And god damn all the icons, they are freaking Greek to me, and if they don't come with a tooltip I am loathe to click on anything that will just go boom. UIs are in a death spiral.

But emacs works pretty much the same. I think I might stick with that another 20 years.

/rant
We're forgetting how to "do nothing", and honestly I think that's a bad thing. I relish the opportunities I get to just sit down and do absolutely nothing, daydream and let my thoughts wander. As a form of meditation or reflection, it lets me gather my thoughts and relax.
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To be clear, the NAIC isn't an industry group - it's made up of insurance regulators. I suppose the argument could be made that they have a conflict of interest in that they'd benefit from increased regulation from an "empire-building" perspective. But I've never gotten the impression that that motivates their decisions in practice. (I'm a former actuary and still work in the insurance industry.)

It's likely true that health insurance premiums would be lower, on average, in an unregulated free market. It's also true that people with pre-existing conditions would be denied coverage or charged substantially higher premiums in an unregulated free market. The current approach to subsidizing coverage for those with pre-existing conditions is less efficient than a tax-and-spend approach would be (see, e.g., [0]), but it's more politically viable since it doesn't show up in government bugets.

[0] https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/06/cross-subsidies.h...
Let's just say it was a classic case of foot shot by Boeing.

They absolutely wanted to kill Bombardier, but due to the fact that Airbus stepped in, took over a majority of the project and assembles the plane in the US Boeing's calculation badly backfired.
Why is calling out to C code via something like numpy a bad thing?

Python is never going to be as fast as C. Ever. Even if you somehow managed to decouple numeric types from PyObject in a backwards compatible way it would not be as fast.

Type Hints can’t be used as an optimization in the interpreter due to the way they are resolved. And in any case, it would not be safe to do so and there are very few cases where optimizations make sense.
I always wondered what the purpose of trigraphs were other than to help win obfuscated code contests haha
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There's nothing wrong with the app saving state. It's strictly superior to the alternative they're pushing, which is saving state on Google servers.
Even before smartphones, Internet cafes were extensibly used to just rest for a an hour or two, watch some video or read manga (very practical to binge reading a full series).

I think that role is here to stay as long as people want a place with a closed space with low social requirement.
...I feel like all UIs should require efficient battery usage, and UIs that don't are an anti-pattern.
It's called sarcasm /s
”The communications ministry plans to create some 10 billion 14-digit phone numbers starting with “020” for assignment.”

I expect “020” isn’t currently a valid prefix in Japan. If so, this makes it a lot easier for software to know whether it has to wait for more digits in a phone number.

There probably are lots of other unused three-digit prefixes, but one has to assume what one deploys now will stay around forever (one century and counting), and that the future will demand space for things we have no idea of.

And 14 isn’t that bad. Bank accounts in Gibraltar (population 35,000 or so) have 23 characters, Kuwait’s (population 4,5 million) have 30, Malta’s (population about 500,000) 31 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_N...)
Can you tell us your vendor?

We are moving offices, and it's time to change equipment,
Been reading about but still haven't gotten a good list.

The only thing i found is great micro tick for wifi routing/AP's
Yea but you could store unlimited backups across multiple accounts. (Not advocating this however)
The most offensive of all this to me, is the loading of your Google account contacts into your phone.

My phone is for a small subset of friends and family, not every person I ever emailed.
I'll give it a try, looks interesting.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908196
It was a bad measure to try and solve the problem of Uber fixing it's own prices in order to create the current market dynamic. The cost of an uber ride AND the drivers wage are both subsidized by Ubers losses. If they didn't do that rates would go up necessarily. The Uber we know now simply can't exist forever, New York tried a bad way to illuminate the real price of the service so that the rest of the driving industry had a level playing field.
>That comes close to being the worst idea in the history of programming languages. Types aren't checked, you can't trust the annotations

As for types not being checked, that's not a problem. JITs do extra specialization on assumed types even without annotations all the time, and just drop them at runtime when they are not valid anymore (e.g. a variable that only pointed to integers now stores a string). Still, this runtime overhead of dropping specialized code aside, those optimizations make e.g. v8 hella fast.

(And of course you could also just enable optimizations after you've statically checked the whole program types with something like mypy -- this is even easier and less dynamic than what v8 does).

>and you give up a big optimization opportunity

You don't give anything up, since an implementation can take advantage of this "big optimization opportunity" if it wants and has the manpower to add it.

>But Guido's naive interpreter will still work.

It's also less work, which unless we have a volunteer here, was and remains the intention.
> Does anybody actually remember phone numbers these days ?

Children do, or should. Even very young children should be taught until they have memorized their own phone number.

And even older children might not have phone yet, but still need to be able to call home.
I have had the same number for 10 years. A few months ago I made a conscious effort to remember it since I was getting fed up of referring back to my contacts list on a daily basis.
You underestimate how many people watch mindless videos / watch videos mindlessly.

I mean I've found myself half an hour into an hourlong ad once when I fell asleep watching youtube on the tv.