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But I think that by the time the government start making changes, it will be too late, as it is too late now.
Like humanity must have a dramatic change - from top to bottom. The system is against the world

We live in a finite world consuming like it is infinite

Every action counts, but it will be hard and it must be super reinforced by law
> And this way the system gets a ton more secure.

Security is fine as long as the user is in control. The problem is that very often companies make decisions that take away control from the user with "security" as a "but think of the children" blanket excuse.
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r/politics perma-bans those commenters with a quickness, unless I'm out of date.

Meanwhile, r/LateStageCapitalism, a sub whose premise is to induce lust for the guillotine, has been quarantined before because one user was running around yelling about Guillotines in the comments. This would happen periodically.

So the admins changed up the mod team. They kept the Anarchist/Communist asthetic, but Social Democrats run the sub now. And they keep the space guillotine-free.
Ask HN: I consider joining Amazon Alexa. Is it winning? Number of active users?
Dear forum,

I am considering an offer to join Amazon Alexa. Do you think Alexa is/will be a success? Do you have numbers on its active users?

For me, it all comes down to whether there are, or will be, use cases, which will be multiple times better doable with Alexa, than with an alternative product/behaviour.

Pro Alexa:
-huge Amazon management attention and budgets
-100m sold devices. And people who use it buy 5-10% more Amazon products
-ecosystem with a lot of abilities, and machine learning will put further fuel to the fire
-you can do cool things at work with great people, regardless of whether it will be a business success

Contra Alexa:
As far as I am aware, there is no real great use case so far. Many people like it as a goodie, but I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t want to live without it. Top use cases seem to be setting a timer, asking for music, or asking for weather. You don’t need a 1000+ people department for that. As such, I am afraid that it will be a business failure.
You can use Nukemap to work that out:

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

I think it would be perfectly safe - though you probably don't want to live directly downwind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders
Privately owned doesn't mean they can do anything they want.

We've allowed privately owned companies to control the means of communication, without regulation.

It's time to bring back the laws that limited the phone companies and big three TV networks interference in politics, updated for the Internet.
So does it's general public.
Well if France for example start stoping their illegal exploitation of natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa it would be great and no need for aids.

AREVA is milking Niger for years to power their Nuclear infrastructure, manipulating their corrupted government and leaving their people to absolute poverty is sickening, not speaking about Mali and their illegal gold mines.
And ?

The Linux foundation heads have a similar salary range, like many other foundations and it is not an issue.

"Not for profit" means with a public stated goal, means that your share holder will not suddenly overcome your company strategy and make you sell all your client data, or make you sell bananas, because "it's more profitable on short term".

That is not an hypothetical scenario, many IT companies already felt into this trap. The foundation model of Mozilla protect you against that. This is something that Brave company does not... And the position of its CEO on publicity does not reinforce my trust into that.
Google owns and controls the chromium project, if they don't like a patch, its not getting merged.
My financial hack is to use a patent agent rather than a patent attorney. They don't charge the absurd fees that lawyers charge, and their job is almost solely to write patents.

You can write your own, but a conversation I had with a patent agent about provisionals, eventually filing one, and then going through the main process led me to think provisionals are somewhat worthless (high level, you're putting your ideas out there and you might not even know their full extent and you might not cover it so you give big guys a chance to circumvent).

Upwork is so-so. My favorite and most informative and honest work experience was with reed.lerner at gmail dot com. I think he'd welcome the business.
Was writing the Volkswagen's emissions cheating software malpractice?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/internatio...
Gender in modern European languages is primarily not about sex; in addition, the word itself just means "kind", in the same sense as "generic". Historically, there was only an "animate" vs. "inanimate" gender. The feminine gender developed from a couple suffixes (think -ic, -al, etc. though these are different suffixes) reanalyzed into a separate gender. Unfortunately nobody really knows why female names are feminine and male names masculine, unfortunately, since we don't have any evidence of PIE names.
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You are using statistics wrong here, FAA process changed , Boeing entered a panic mode so their process changed too, applying statistics from the past where processes were different(FAA did its job and Boeing was no cutting corners) is incorrect.

We need new statistics, and this are the stats for the recent Boeing plane where the MAX crashed 2 times, first crash was blamed on the pilots and no serious urgent investigation was performed, the MCAS issues that were discovered were trivialized, still Beoing is trying to shift t6he blame on a bad software and not on the actual causes .

My point is that you can't use statistics that way, there are rules on how to apply them correctly and many pitfalls when applying statistics in real world scenarios.
I don't think anybody argues that Go is the most performant language available.

If performance is your main requirement, at the expense of everything else, then Go is definitely not a good choice.

Many consider it a good compromies between performance, readability, syntax, ecosystem, concurrency support etc..., and I believe it is what their designers aimed for originally.

And I'm not saying that other languages do not offer similar compromises, it's nice to have options.
I never fully used Lotus, but I gave it a chance back then when I was in college. I did all my college work on Quattro Pro for D.O.S 5 and 6 along with WordStar and later with WordPerfect in Windows. I've used Quattro Pro in Windows later on too. Ah, those good old days.
In the EU at least the denatured alcohols sold to the general public (e.g. as cleaning products) don't have enough actual poison in them to cause much damage.

The main thing they shove in there to stop you drinking it is denatonium benzoate ("bitrex"), which will make you _regret_ putting it in your mouth, but won't kill you because you'll immediately want to spit it out instead. The other ingredients are mostly to stop you trying to get the bitrex back out and then selling it as bootleg booze (thus evading the tax).
Also, if you rebuild a system in isolation, you have to reproduce all the bugs - since you do not know which of the bugs are load-bearing, i.e. other systems have been engineered to depend on the bugs, whether by accident or intentionally.
> Suppose I were to give you $100, in return for your promise to give it back when I wanted it and pay me 0.27% annualized interest in the meanwhile. Suppose you invested this in a virtually riskless bond, perhaps a mortgage-backed security with government backing, offering 2.53% annualized interest. You’d earn $2.26 in net interest in a year.

How would you rectify the duration mismatch between the on-demand deposit (of $100) with the multi-year mortgage-backed security?

For example, if the rate of interest increases, my $100 — that you invested in bonds — will now be worth less than $100 (since the price of the bond has fallen). How will you be able to honor my withdrawal when you’re insolvent?
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It's like the questions no one ever asked that end up in "FAQ"
I think that there is a difference here between race and ethnicity. Race would be the external phenotypical features like skin color that are obvious to someone assessing a job candidate in person. Ethnicity can be harder to determine.
I still don't trust the FAA at all. They've been sourcing out their own work to Boeing since the 787 Dreamliner [0]. That's seven years ago. I don't think this will make them change their practices. The 787 fiasco certainly didn't.

Personally I'd be happiest if the world just scrapped all the Max-es. Just scrap 'em, let Boeing go out of business, it's what they deserve now, they shouldn't exist anymore as a company. There are enough businesses that happily create planes without putting profit before people.

It's really too bad that there's no footage of either of the crashes, because if people could see what happened they would never fly one of those things again. That's why people don't fly zeppelins anymore. Not because of what people said or read, but because they saw. The Max deserves the same.

Do you want to fly in a plane which was created using the deaths of over 300 people to finalize the design?

[0] The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams, Al Jazeera Investigations, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
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> Well, recycles tesselate--so that's one property that rules out pentagons, say, as our shape of choice, but why not triangles? Or hexagons?

Try to sleep on a triangular bed :) Try to read a triangular book or write a letter on a triangular page :) Try to watch TV on a triangular screen :) Try to hang clothes in a triangular cabinet :)

Notice how much space is wasted in the corners of these (preasumably 60 degree) triangles.

Our bodies are roughly rectangles and interact well with rectangular shapes. Our field of vision is a rectangle too.
Worth remembering that this camera was released 10 years ago. AFAIK, powerbanks weren't really a thing back then, at least not popular and widely available things. I can easily imagine how they could market the ability to power the device with AA batteries as a feature.

That said, it's still great they did that, and they deserve praise.
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That foam model is just gorgeous!
Stop buying stuff without thought.

I know that a lot of people feel helpless because it's the big corporations that are emitting, but companies only emit CO2 if consumers pay them to do so.

Buying everything consciously, whether its food, appliances, housing, or a ticket to some performance, will make the world better.
On the flip side, what people seem to want “not for profit” to mean is “employees work for below market rate for some reason”.

I don't get it. I would expect employees at a non-profit to be compensated along the same lines as those at a for-profit. It's a constant easy story for shitty journalism in the UK – "oh my god this head of a charity makes far less than the head of an equivalently–sized private company! what a bastard!"
If someone says "hitting the TV won't accomplish anything, pressing this button on the other hand..." they're suggesting you press that button.

And similarly that comment about riots was a suggestion to riot.
A browser built for development could actually be quite interesting!

It would be nice to see a free trial to be able to test the browser out a bit.
Okay, so socialism it is then.

Or more palatable for HN: Universal Basic Income.

Not that it matters if Earth is a flaming hellscape by 2050 thanks to the ongoing pollution that will likely only be made worse by this automation.
This is roughly my hypothesis, except they'd be separate CPUs and AMD wouldn't be involved. Due to the markets Apple is in with Mac, they can't just stop using Intel altogether - they need both x86 and ARM to coexist.

How it'd work - ARM SoC expands on what the T2 does today, except it now runs all system threads, any ARM native user space apps, and maybe specialty fixed function blocks that Apple throws on those chips (e.g. media encode). Meanwhile the Intel chip is a co-processor for any x86 specific user space apps, and it otherwise doesn't touch drivers or any system things.

The market would be segmented with ARM chips at the lower end (MacBooks), and ARM chips with Intel co-processors at the higher end (15" MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro). This is equivalent to how integrated v discrete GPUs are segmented today.

Over time the ARM chips get faster and faster as Intel inevitably blunders, and more and more code is rewritten as native ARM code, so that after several years the need for x86 is significantly reduced, maybe only existing as thunderbolt eCPU boxes and/or Mac Pro. And by around MacOS ~10.23 in 2026, x86 is sunsetted because remaining use cases are so minimal.
Do you have a citation for this? Why would brave users be less likely to click on ads than a normal user if they weren’t using a browser that blocked ads?
Government-imposed Internet shutdowns are a power move
There are still companies that do that; the ones I'm aware off are mostly from Germany and Japan. Like assembly line robots, but also Panasonic (and maybe Fujitsu; haven't tried them for a while, but I used to be a big fan of their 2-in-1's P1510 rang) laptops (especially the Japan-only ones). They would not sell anywhere else because they are crazy priced, but they are virtually indestructible and go on forever.
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I wouldn't overemphasis the troubles of the world. The main issues is that people don't get to enjoy progress to the extent necessary to create a sustainable prosperous society. Decommodifying housing, education and health care would solve 90% of the issue. Almost anything else can then be dealt with. Automation for example isn't a bad thing unless you also have accelerating inequality. Climate change isn't bad unless building a more energy effective society affects some people disproportionally. Etc. That people don't understand this is what will cost them.
"The rationale behind the move is to cut reliance on foreign entities, the report said, a concern that has somehow manifested amid U.S.’s ongoing tussle with Huawei and China."
I don't understand why you think this means that Google can easily kill all Chrome clones in one funny day.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
If your air conditioner clicks on after 3 seconds, you push the button 3 seconds earlier.
I don't want to pay 2k to run a proprietary browser.
Thanks as well, I love to dive into all sorts of languages.
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After so many decades, there's no golden rule here ? (genuine question).

A principle of zero automation fallback in case of confusion ? something that is hardcoded deep in the design so that people in charge (pilot crew) can know for sure that whatever happens is in their hands ?
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Game consoles also disallow running any software you may want and you can only run whatever is sanctioned by the console makers. This is the #1 reason i do not buy any console and the reason that instead of getting something like the Switch i got a GPD Win instead (a gaming handheld PC that runs x86 Windows, although you can install Linux if you want too) even though it is more expensive: i can run anything i want on it without requiring approval from anyone (in fact so far i only have used games from my GOG catalog and the installation process was just copying the installers to a USB from my main PC and running them on the GPD Win).

Being able to do that isn't just a nice thing to have, it is a downright mandatory ability any computer must have.
yep - look up 'Hidden Markov Map Matching through Noise and Sparseness' by Krumm and Newson

it calculates the final probability by combining 'emission' probabilities (the probability that a GPS observation was on a particular road) by the 'transition' probability that if an observation was on a particular road at one point, what is the probability that it is now on this other road segment. By combining these two the final probability incorporates both the nearness of the GPS signals to the roads and the connectivity of the road network itself.

I've found the formulas applied in this paper are good in practice only if the GPS updates are relatively frequent
climate migration is going to be a part of it
> Boeing also has a solid safety record on their other models 777 and 767

You seem to be overlooking the 787 - a few early models set on fire. Sure, nobody died, but that was more luck than judgement.
His example would be relevant to any virtualized dollar substitute.

I could send someone an Amazon gift card or a Starbucks digital code as long as me and recipient agree on a common medium for such transaction.
Ask HN: Known good ways to bypass the China Firewall in July 2019?
Seems like VPNs are being cracked down on hard & I was wondering what the HN community recommends today?
I really like SymPy and support the hard working developers constantly improving it. This software is incredably complex and really needed. One day it will be a viable open source alternative for Matlab and Mathematica.

That said, for my specific use case (modulo arithmetic / cyclic groups) I didn't get SymPy to work properly. While I was able to find guidelines on how to hack it together, I have not found a real solution. After 2 hrs of search, I retreated in shame to Mathematica. If anyone knows a solution or works with these structures, let me know!
Only going back to 1850 is exactly the kind of thing someone would do if they wanted to cherry pick their data to suit a case. You have to go back much further. It is known that at that time we were coming out of a period of much cooler temperatures. See for example the year without a summer (1816).

There are periods of human history where it was warmer than it is now. For example, during the Viking expansion, and during the Roman expansion. Then things cooled off - for example the Viking and Roman contraction.

If you go to L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, you can see the remains of the only known Viking settlement in the new world. The buildings were made with logs from trees that do not exist there today because it is cooler now and does not support the tree growth required.
Two of the more well-known routing engines have this capability and have written about it on their blogs with some visualisations:

- OSRM (the main routing engine behind openstreetmap.org) https://blog.mapbox.com/matching-gps-traces-to-a-map-7373019...

- Graphhopper https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2016/08/08/releasing-the-ma...

Unfortunately it's not a simple project to get started on because you already need to have a way to import road network data (e.g. from openstreetmap), build an internal graph model, do some geographic indexing and perform fast many-to-many routing calculations.
It's a shame so many people have to die for them to "sort their shit out". Maybe they shouldn't make idiotic design decisions and lie to regulators in the first place?
> In my opinion, buying can be assimilated to a vote when your wallet is big enough to let you consider several market options.

And also, and I keep repeating this, if there even are options.

The problem with voting with your wallet is the same as the problem of voting in a typical western democracy. You never get to vote on a feature/issue in the abstract; you can only choose out of what's available on the market/ballot, and that's always a very large bundle of features/issues, so you have to make trade-offs when voting.

For instance, I very much want to have a replaceable battery in my smartphone, but my current one doesn't have this feature. That's because I had to choose a whole bundle and the replaceable battery lost with considerations like "won't turn into unsupported and underpowered garbage in 2 years", "still has audio jack", "support SIM cards" and "I trust the manufacturer". There's no way for the market to pick up on my preference for replaceable batteries here.
I don't understand your point. If an ad doesn't display, then the content owner doesn't get any money for it.
I used to use a lot of SymPy, but finally switched to Sage. This is Python as well, but has some syntax extensions and sensible defaults that reduce many quirks of Python. For example, you can write 1/2 instead of of Rational(1,2) and a^b instead of ab.

Moreover, Sage integrates lots of other libraries seamlessly. I remember doing lots of polynomial calculations and groebner basis stuff, and generating Singular script from Python seemed to be very elegant in the beginning. However, this quickly showed severe drawbacks. With Sage this all became easy and seamless again.
See my comment on another part of this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20292762

1. MacOS and iPad are similar, but distinct user experiences. Its more than hardware (one with keyboard, one without), its about those differences in experience. Apple is nothing if not patient about introducing change to computing paradigms and experiences, so it's fine to co-exist for a while. Switching to ARM gives them better margins, better control over price, better control over physical chassis constraints, better control over features offered, access to a better chip team than Intel's, and now TSMC and/or Samsung's better EUV processes. E.g. features-wise, Intel still isn't shipping LPDDR4 chips, something the 4 year old iPhone 6S had.

2. Basically, x86 becomes a co-processor, just like how discrete GPUs are handled. This avoids having to compete with tiny sliver of market that wants Xeons.

3. AMD is a lateral move, with exactly the same lack of control over core technologies problem. Also AMD is historically not as reliable a supplier for volumes that Apple has.

4. See #2 and my comment. Also, they needed to intro Mac Pro to satisfy / shore up existing Mac contingent before they abandoned entirely. This is a multi-year journey.
nope, see my other replies, not touching the door handle with wet hands. if there is no way to get out without touching the handle i'll dry off first. i just won't if i know i can get away with out touching anything for a while
To be fair, the longer one goes back in time the less data there is and I would hazard a guess that prior to 1600 there is no direct data at all.
I don't see them on the desktop build either.
It's upsetting because it involves Facebook which means that a) HN and b) the press are very, very upset.
I wonder if this type of app is a good use case for a P2P distributed app. E.g. Dat style? I see a lot of P2P that is basically good for distributing your favorite cat photos (https://github.com/beakerbrowser/dat-photos-app) but maybe this is actually a useful app for P2P. Thoughts?
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Or AdNauseam ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19278936 )
If this is their track record, it'd be like using public Twitter posts for government comms: https://gizmodo.com/simple-hack-turns-indias-massive-biometr...
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