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This is pretty silly.

The only real connection to Hegel is that Hegel talks about "being" and "nothing" kinda-sorta turning into one another, which the author riffs on in terms of differential equations and takes as corresponding to the differential equation for a harmonic oscillator.

The rest -- the idea that you can see the Riemann zeta function as something a bit like a Fourier transform of the integers -- is old hat. (As Terry Tao put it at one point: "the Riemann zeta function is essentially the Mellin transform of the Dirac comb on the natural numbers". See also du Sautoy's popular book about RH, "The music of the primes".)

The idea that sometimes you have two things turning into one another is not exactly startling, nor is it original to Hegel. The idea that this yields harmonic-oscillator-like dynamics is also not exactly startling, and in any case it's not something Hegel had any idea about. The thing that's distinctly Hegelian here, so far as I can tell (note: I am very far indeed from being a Hegel expert) is the idea that it's being and nothing that are in this relationship, and that specific aspect has nothing to do with the author's calculations. (He just writes them as x and y. They could equally have been "ham" and "eggs" or "Vishnu" and "Shiva" or "Linux" and "Windows" instead of "being" and "nothing".)
Do civil servants frequently serve in parliament where you're from? In my country, you're proscribed from running in any significant elections (state legislature/national legislature) if you're a serving civil servant. I may be wrong, but I presumed that was the case more places than not. I know that it is the case in Britain, which may be relevant to Canada. (An office of profit under the crown disqualifies one from parliament).
> Mozilla/5.0 is the general token that says the browser is Mozilla compatible, and is common to almost every browser today. [0]

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Us...
The cost of nuclear is maximized when we're speaking of one site. That's why I mentioned scale out of nuclear. You're not going to get a beneficial learning curve unless you're building and siting lots of power plants with the same contractor(s).

Even with inflated costs, however, the extremely high latitude of the UK and its need for wintertime heat mean that the amount of renewable curtailment needed to ensure sufficient carbonfree wintertime energy make nuclear still cost competitive in a carbonfree scenario.

Generally speaking, no halfway competent investment in carbonfree energy should be opposed, IMHO. We don't have time to fight such internal battles when we're fighting anthropogenic climate change.
Idk why apl or haskell would be any better.
I think you are essentially dismissing philosophy in general.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

"Sir Karl Popper is not really a participant in the contemporary professional philosophical dialogue; quite the contrary, he has ruined that dialogue. If he is on the right track, then the majority of professional philosophers the world over have wasted or are wasting their intellectual careers. The gulf between Popper's way of doing philosophy and that of the bulk of contemporary professional philosophers is as great as that between astronomy and astrology."
I went to a state school that had a particularly crappy CS program and it was the same. I don't think busyness is an indication of the "eliteness" of a program. You can just be working hard but not actually learning much because the tasks you're working on are not efficient at teaching.
Solar is growing so fast that it is creating its own waste problem:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23...

What happens when we add the necessary batteries (to replace the nuclear base) to this problem?
Syntax may be irrelevant at the end of the day, but nice syntax can make a big difference in usability imo. I'm not following the Rust example, but discussions of it remind me about discussions about UFCS (Universal Function Call Syntax). That's where `foo(a, b)` can be rewritten as `a.foo(b)`. That may seem minor, but look at this code:

half_square = divide(square(a), 2)

In comparison to:

half_square = a.square().divide(2)

Many find the latter much more pleasant to read, and things like this can make a big difference in how fun I find it to use a language.
I'm not convinced, solar is only now becoming cost competitive, that means for most of this period it was more expensive than its competitors. Now its getting into the realms of being the cheapest option, so why would growth be harder to come by?
So I've been lurking on HN for over a decade...the moderators here are very very good at fostering good discussion while eliminating toxicity.

If you want to be a better moderator of any internet community you'd do well to study how it's done here.
11 Years and Counting for Lawsuit Challenging Opt Guestworker Program
"malicious intent" is an interesting concept.

I agree it seems unlikely this particular feature/engineering choice was introduced with the conscious intent to penalize non-Chrome browsers or Edge specifically by withholding a UI from them.

However, when this kind of thing happens, it can be taken as indication that supporting all browsers as well as possible is not as high a priority as other things. Supporting Chrome very well may be a higher priority than supporting every/any other browsers as well as possible.

After all, doing it in a "feature detection" way may very well be very difficult and thus expensive/time consuming. But it can surely be done. It just means doing it isn't a high enough to priority to justify what it would take. The sort of decisions anyone developing software needs to make all the time, that's real. And the priorities and values explicitly or implicitly chosen are real too.

Is it "malicious intent" to not be willing to put an arguably inordinate amount of resources into supporting non-Chrome browsers, or to effectively prioritize the Chrome UX more than other browsers? I dunno, but it's a thing.

It's also worth remembering though that the reported issue is in a preview version of the browser (and on a brand new barely-non-preview version of youtube), and I wouldn't be too surprised if it's fixed before it goes out of preview. This is one of the points of having preview releases of course, to find bugs -- both bugs in user-agents and bugs in websites.
Await is a keyword, syntax highlighters will most likely paint it differently.
That's precisely how I learned that formula. In fact that's basically the pedagogy that's been presented to me for almost all the mathematics I've learned.

Sets? Define a set semantically, then replace "set" with S. Vector spaces? Define a vector space semantically, then replace "vector space" with V. Limits? Define a limit semantically, then replace the word with "lim".

Moreover mathematicians typically use jargon in a more reader-friendly way than simply throwing obtuse equations at them. Expressions, equations, inequalities and identities are complements to the proof, not the proofs themselves. Best practice holds that you present a theorem in plain language alongside the necessary notation, then break its proof down into as many atomic units (lemmas, propositions, corollaries, etc) as possible. Here is a blog post[1] from Terence Tao giving general advice for why that's useful. Tao has written a bunch[2] of these on the theme of emphasizing exposition and clarity.

Also contrary to popular belief, well-written mathematics papers actually have quite a lot of exposition in them. For a famous example, look at Yitang Zhang's proof[3] that there are infinitely many primes with 70 million numbers (or fewer) in between them. He spends a full five pages on introduction, background results used to develop the proof, and (most importantly) notation. He also includes a "sketch" of the proof in broad strokes so that a reader can follow his arguments at both a high level and in gritty detail.

That doesn't mean papers like Zhang's are accessible to most people. The jargon is still there and you can't really change that unless you want papers to become self-contained monographs. But the point is that what you're proposing - concepts defined in a straightforward way before moving on to dense notation - is already the general practice.

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1. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/advice-on-writing-papers/crea...

2. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/advice-on-writing-papers/

3. http://annals.math.princeton.edu/2014/179-3/p07
In a panic over a Tsunami - note that Germany doesn't have a coast to speak off and is not prone to tsunamis.

It was also used to keep the Greens on side though you do have to ask who benefits and is keeping coal plant open longer really a green solution.
I used to work for a well known automobile company as both an employee. I've also worked for other auto companies in as part of a consulting job. Auto companies are typically big, slow, and focused on selling a product that takes years (e.g. 3+ years for mid-model refresh, 6+ years for new car model) to take to market. Decisions are very consensus based because all decisions (even marketing) are longer term decisions.

All of that is reflected throughout auto companies. Even the latest technology such as telematics for predictive maintenance and electric charging are highly dependent on the market, suppliers, and government forces that drive infrastructure changes.

The IT org and most technical jobs exists to support that slow moving structure. If you are the person who wants to move fast and be entrepreneurial you are probably going to struggle in an auto company. Just something to keep in mind as you decide if you want to stay in a job or start something on your own.
They both matter. Confusing syntax can lead to just as many bugs as confusing semantics.

(I'm not arguing that they weren't bikeshedding...)
It depends, are you trying to say a head of state is better than an American citizen? Does not every man have equal intrinsic worth? Are you trying to imply that some foreign underling ought to have power to summon a sovereign American at his beck and call?
Michael Phelps seemed that way on his last olympics. He wasn’t really enjoying it even though he was setting historic records.
I think it's because a lot of these guys are self-starter learners, so they feel like they didn't learn much they couldn't have googled themselves.

"Education doesnt matter" is a much different argument than "lots of jobs shouldn't require bachelors degrees"
Not sure if you're jokingly referencing that simulation-based 2005 study, but it's a far cry to extrapolate it to mean that you actually shouldn't make your bed. For example, see https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2017/making-...
> Basically - reduce the outlook of the models for more accuracy, and put together two opposing teams to challenge each others' outcomes. Isn't this what science is all about, rather than one side declaring they're totally correct and infallible?

The outcomes are already challenged, in public view, in papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences. The "red team" here is more like putting together a team of homeopaths and faith healers and making the FDA debate them on drug regulation. The "red team" is just to provide the illusion that the administration is deciding policy based on science instead of having already decided based on what is best for the short term profits of the coal industry and other major contributors to climate change.

Same for the reduction in model outlook. Yes, models are less accurate over time, but that doesn't mean they aren't useful farther out. It just means you have a bigger uncertainty. But if all the outcomes within the range of uncertainly are bad, then you've got a problem.

They want to limit it to 2040 because up to 2040 most of the models say nothing too bad will have yet happened even if we continue increasing greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, etc., at the current pace. But the models pretty much all agree that if we do that, it will be very bad afterwards, and they say that even if you take an optimistic view of the uncertainty due to projecting that far forward.

As for this being political BS, and your earlier comment that this was a partisan hit piece that you deleted while I was typing a response, no, it is not a partisan hit piece. If Democrats were rolling back current efforts to address climate change, without offering alternative methods to replace them, and instead trying to undermine scientific inquiry into the problem, then the Times would be writing stories like this about them, too.
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Probably get over yourself tho
Am I the only one who is shocked that Google has 223,000 people working for them? What are all of these people doing?
Voters don’t want to pay for it via taxes so that doesn’t really leave any other options. Employees and vendors need to get paid somehow.
It's the minimum set of requirements to have a fully functional, usable product.

The MVP has to be customer-ready, so it has to be as minimally feature-complete as possible.
If you can read Chinese check this: https://www.zhihu.com/question/263716125
Some said the name changed to mppdb, based on postgreSQL but buggy...
Many people use WhatsApp but aren't on Facebook. I've never seen ads so far.
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That’s the steam to which I’m referring, yes. The best example I have of nonprofit reactor operation, and the safety culture which such a paradigm can support, is the US Navy; while nuclear-powered submarines have been lost on two occasions, neither
loss resulted from a reactor accident, and indeed the US Navy has never had a reactor accident. [1] I’m not the first to suggest this model could be productively applied to civilian power generation; I remain uncertain why it seems so uncommon for other “Atomkraft? Ja, bitte!” folks to do so.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jun...
That's a bit of an oversimplification.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation resigned from the W3C for a reason.
You just made them install one more app. And you lost friends because they didn't install an app. What a dumb way to spite Facebook.
There's one for CSS too.

https://github.com/hashanp/postcss-spiffing
They often do early research in secrecy to keep the pressure off the team. If you announce "We're going to ship cold fusion in 2020" or even "We're looking into cold fusion approaches", then suddenly everybody's interested in the research team, there's a huge amount of pressure on them, and they no longer have the freedom to tinker with different approaches and critically look at the data. If you keep it secret then it's just a bunch of really smart guys being funded to look into some intriguing idea.

In this case they got a negative result, so the secrecy was probably warranted - would they have had the courage to put out 9 peer-reviewed papers detailing a negative result if everybody had been asking them "So, when are we gonna be able to use cold fusion" since 2015? The cynic in me thinks that the project was just canceled, which is why Google is going to the press now - they have no more vested stake in the outcome, but it'd be beneficial if somebody else tried it and did manage to find an approach that works.
Maybe the GP went to an all girls school?
Which Google moonshot has paid off so far?
I'm not familiar around the syntax, but I'm interested to know how much of this was a religious battle and how much of it results in meaningful complications for user code down the line. I've heard really good things about the Rust community (like nothing bad at all), until maybe two weeks ago when somebody mentioned this stuff. I'm a really big fan of not having religious battles.

Is this syntax for native coroutines? Can it be combined with existing user and stdlib syntax? What pathways for syntax development does this decision cut off entirely, and pathways does it leave open? What did the Rust community / maintainers learn from this debate, and how can the Rust community avoid such battles in the future?
> You have to take the mindset that "giant bundles of JavaScript" aren't how we want to build the web but to begin to ship more and more of the web baked into browsers instead.

"giant bundles of JavaScript" weren't how we shipped the web before the HTML5 process began. The solution to "we're loading too much overengineered bloated redundant logic over HTTP" isn't "lets bundle all of that logic", it's "stop overengineering simple webpages".

> even "static HTML" requires accessibility improvements and adaptations to new device types

Accessibility standards predate and are still external to HTML5, and have actual fixed specs. They're relatively simple to implement from a parser perspective, and individual tools implementing functionality on top of that are ancillary to mainstream browsers. The only exception here is support for things like MSAA, etc. and that's also completely separate to HTML5 et al.

You go on to list a bunch of CSS stuff (again, some pre-dating HTML5, none coming from WHATWG), proprietary browser settings (not a part of any spec, living or static).

> better support for print media

Now this would be great to see. However this is something we definitely have not gotten since the advent of HTML5. What are you referring to here?

CORS pre-dates HTML5 (was later subsumed into HTML5), but the newer auth APIs you mention are nice; I'll give you that.

Things like IntersectionObserver however are one perfect example of extra feature-creep in HTML5, building hacks on top of an ecosystem overrun with overengineering. You should not need IntersectionObserver to get basic, usable performant scrolling. If you feel you do, you've overengineered your webapp: try actually addressing your performance bottlenecks.
The climate is changing. The climate is being driven by the sun. Always has & always will. The climate is changing on other planets in the Solar system, being driven by the sun, just like Earth.

This whole "anthropocentric carbon climate change" scheme is a scam to funnel money away from real science & useful tech to special centralization interests that take away freedom of most people in the world. The people behind this scheme are a blight on humanity & should be arrested for fraud. The scale of their operations are orders of magnitude larger & more dangerous than Bernie Madoff.
It's still going to remain the same. Whatsapp is too big to fail, perhaps people in the US just don't comprehend how big of a user base Whatsapp has around the world.
> it'll just be embedded into whatever product you buy and it won't be opt-out.

It will be for me, because I'll disable it. With sidecutters, if necessary.
God forbid he answer questions from the Indian parliament, he might have to explain why WhatsApp has been so slow to invest in stopping the spread of fake news in a country where it has literally led to lynchings.
but even "force = mass * acceleration" uses those sneaky single-letter symbols that are not even letters! In appropriate, user friendly notation it would be "force equals mass multiplied by acceleration".

But this is not clear enough. What force? What acceleration? More precisely, what is the direction of the acceleration? The original statement of this law is less ambiguous: "Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis illa imprimitur. "

Or, in plain english: "The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impress'd; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impress'd"

There! we are good to go. Now write the fundamental theorem of calculus in english, readable by everybody, without those ugly, unreadable variables and fancy symbols...
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>I sometimes feel that Democracy is ruining our chances of survival as a species.

The cynic in me believes that the point of environmental alarmism is to convince the public that giving up their democratic way of life and their rights is the only way to save the earth and humanity from certain destruction. Those who believe that dramatic action is necessary to stop certain extinction will stop at nothing to take power in order to enact their plan. After all, the very survival of the species depends upon them, doesn't it?
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> their deployment would have to accelerate to an __unprecedented__ level

Parent comments point is that the 5x growth is not unprecedentedly fast compared to the past 20 years, its unprecedentedly slow compared to the past 20 years. Contrary to what the quote claims, and in line with projections from the past, the solar business would have to seriously slow down to miss the 5x milestone.
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> Does this need to be tabular data?

No, not a requirement. But what will I lose if I choose graph DB over RDBMS?
If 125% DPI is a standard for your users, of course you should accommodate for it when you can.

UI development has always been developing for the most common denominator and then the best you can make it for the most amount of users.

If the user has a manual zoom in the browser, there's not much you can do from a developer perspective.
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> If voters pick the candidate closer to their views, and voters are spread out across the spectrum, then both candidates would converge to the middle. It’s no surprise that politicians seek the “average vote.” It also suggests why it’s so hard to tell the difference between candidates during the campaign trail.

Needs a (2008)...
I get the impression that a lot of people saying that school doesn’t matter underestimate not only the signalling but also how much solid foundations make for easy learning later on.

I’ve transitioned to programming in my late 20s. First I tried to learn by doing, without any formal education, and everything was grueling and I barely understood what I was doing. Then I got some formal education, and now I have much clearer mental models of how lots of things work, vastly improving my efficiency and quality.

I’ve practiced a lot on my own too, but my side projects throughout these years would have never taught me certain topics which have actually come up in real life (most recent example I remember is graph traversal).

It’s clear that some people have an outstanding creativity and drive and can explore even remote corners of the discipline on their own. For the rest of us who still love the science, college remains a great solution.
also modern airplanes with modern software never crash.
What's a big difference for you got to do with the design of a language used by many others? What makes your experience more important than the experiences of someone with different qualifications?

Why is optimizing for your tastes the correct thing to optimize for?
> If every single little country was calling on them all the time, then yeah maybe, but this seems like one of those "pick and choose" situation where you should send the CEO and Founder.

So legal authority is determined by the size of the nation? Or the number? They either can or cannot compel him to do so, regardless of size or number.
Interesting example...I find the first much easier to read and reason about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interesting, thanks for the history lesson— I feel a bit better about my own stance, which is also largely to mock as a last resort.

Although I've never been a ruby programmer, you're right that I'm influenced by DHH and the ruby community's approach on a lot of these things.
For a native application, the easiest way I've found is to statically link OpenCV. If you're using vcpkg to build your dependencies then OpenCV is already statically linked in Linux (I assume that's what you're using if you're considering Docker) and on Windows it's just a matter of choosing the static triplet.