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> I would argue any dynamic programming language is a good alternative to labview.

why? labview is not a dynamic programming language.

> I'm a proponent on using python for labautomation (we run workshops at some major optics conferences, see http://python4photonics.org for an unfortunately somewhat out of date summary about some of what we do).

python is orders of magnitude slower than labview and doesn't have any ability like labview to do true mulithreading and multicore execution.

> In my experience labview is a mess, it's only momentum (in particular drivers provided by vendors, but that is changing) that keeps it going. I find labview code developed by amateurs is an unmaintainable mess. Grad students pass along code from on generation to the next without anyone daring to fix some of the glaring bugs. Really use anything but labview, even if it's the buggy matlab instrument toolbox.

in my experience, code developed by amateurs in any language is an unmaintainable mess. that isn't a valid critique of a language. the same thing happens with amateurs who code in python. i feel python, as a language is a mess, and also as an ecosystem. packages quickly become obsolete or only supported in certain versions.

drivers for labview are really not the thing keeping it going, at all. most third-party (i.e., non-national instruments) companies provide drivers in the form of c/c++ DLLs, .NET DLLs, and LabVIEW APIs. since labview can call any of these, this is indeed a plus. however, it is the ability in labview to program windows, real-time linux, and FPGA applications and the availability of natural instruments hardware that easily integrates into this software platform that makes it a killer. you can do some programming of NI hardware with .net languages, python, or c/c++, but you cannot do the full gamut of windows to real-time embedded linux to fpga. and if you know what you are doing, then the dataflow nature of labview makes it extremely easy to build and maintain large applications.
Great suggestion. It’s actually a pretty solid experience. Only other difference is that it does not auto play videos on feed or story.

Maybe that’s a feature for some though.
Regulating Facebook: A Proposal
"weaponized it"
This is foolish language to use. A retweets is actually super helpful and provides value. However, like with all tools, it matters what you use it for.

These days it seems like most people forget that there is a Twitter that exist outside politics. There are lots of communities on Twitter that provides tremendous value to those who are part of them.
I don't understand differentiable programming. If conditions and while loops, they are not differentiable, right?

How to handle those?
I am just following the book and using Anki as he describes, creating cards with images from Google and sound files from Forvo.

The only advice that I find a bit rushed is to read books with the audio after you learn the top 1.000 words and half of your grammar book. That's still too hard for me.

But I can listen to this Russian-only podcast and undertand almost everything: https://russianpodcast.eu
CO2 is definitely worse just by volume.
> I'm not trying to rob anyone from the chance of a cure, I'm just saying that to save the most people, resource allocation makes sense.

I wasn't arguing with resource allocation, I was arguing with your "safety concerns". My takeaway from the article is that with the current framework, any treatment needs to go through countless trials individually, hence it is literally impossible to do any trials to prove the safety or efficacy any treatment that is bespoke to a handful of people.

In our system, it's the responsibility of private companies to productize findings from research and development. As a result, resources aren't allocated to save the most people, they're allocated to make the most money. If you make it expensive to develop treatments for diseases, or you limit the profit that can be made from these treatments, those treatments will never be developed. No pharma company loses money just because people die. They lose money from dead people they could have treated at a profit.

> Now if the incentives are misaligned by virtue of the laws we write, we might need to change those.

The incentives are aligned towards not taking risks. You will not read a headline "Millions of people died as a result of overly strict safety standards". Even though that may very well be the case, it would just be a conjecture. On the other hand, if a handful of people die from some FDA-approved drug, it's all over the news, people will demand consequences, million-dollar lawsuits will be filed, and so on.
Why not, Scotland already has
the Inverewe Gardens [1], it's only going to get hotter (but maybe some harsher winters [2])

[1] https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/inverewe/highlights/gard...

[2] http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/articles/...
Unfortunately you repeat anything enough times and people will pick up on it, even if it goes against what is self-evident. Even something you can explain in 5 minutes like the connection between the concentration of greenhouses gases and warming.

It’s probably quite a good lesson for everyone, a lot of our beliefs aren’t reached through some process from first principles, they are accepted from what appears to be normal. Our understanding of the world is really not much better than the sources for news and analysis we and those around us expose ourselves to.
Different motives: mentally ill vs spiritual belief. and there are plenty of initiatives to ban guns after terrorist actions done by whites. not sure what your point is.
Couldn't they have blocked it for another reason listed in their terms? Wouldn't it make the most sense to ask them in an appeal?
The Facebook app, on iPhone at least, requires you to opt in to giving it microphone access.

I've seen the myth that Facebook is targeting ads based on what it hears debunked several times. Do you have a source that shows that it is in fact listening?

I think it's more likely that the same reason someone is talking about something (they're in a demographic interested in that thing) is the reason that Facebook gives you ads for that thing. Add in the Baader-Meinhof effect and it seems like Facebook is listening to your conversations.
France is EU's top energy exporter [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/france-electricity/french-20...
Vast swathes of land in Russia that have been frigid are becoming arable. Lots of formerly inland properties will become seafront all around the world - invest wisely!
Add in the confidence intervals and that graph tells a completely different story.
Not relevant to this site, IMO. You want to change the world, proactively speak out against alcohol to your family and friends, and continuously caution them against it's abuse. Hoping that a tiny fraction of people on the net read some news article is going to change their lives is a pipe dream.
Donald Trump has the most stable approval rating of any president since Truman
I agree, and that's really what I meant- considering it uses Electron (though it sounds like it uses it less and less from your description), it actually performs okay- especially considering how complex it is. It really isn't just a text editor- it's pretty heavy on features.

But no doubt, Sublime Text exists in a different (native) world of speed altogether (and I do love Sublime Text)
This is highly dependent on the crop, and when in the plant's growth cycle the heat comes.

For example, crops like wheat benefit from a hot dry period when they get close to harvest time. Same for some vegetables like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.

The challenge isn't so much that high heat (to an extent) and agriculture is incompatible, it's that unexpected high-heat, or high heat at unexpected times can be damaging.

Don't think that I'm downplaying the risk of climate change to agriculture, there are plenty of very serious negative effects that climate change will have on agriculture, but warmer temperatures on their own, at least at this range, aren't directly a huge issue if they're expected.
Fair point as applied to the wider government.
But a little less convincing in the context of the Snowden leaks which also showed that this kind of data was then used to extrajudicially kidnap people of any nationality on any territory and subject them to any number of human rights abuses.
There is of course a difference in scale, I'll hand you that. But it's unclear if that difference in quantity is big enough to make it a difference I quality.
Because MQTT is optimized for low-bandwidth environments, it only has a limited number of error responses. Therefore, when a connection has been established, there is no way to distinguish a network issue from a forced disconnect.
The red herring here is AI. I believe most everything you’re trying to accomplish can be done using a popular and longstanding application called Band in a Box, from a company called PG Music.
"You should be, the Facebook app explicitly does listen to the mic unless you opt out."

Evidence? Every time someone claims this it gets debunked.
What people often take away from that is that they should drink eight glasses of water _in addition to_ everything else they might consume--soda, juice, coffee, and anything else that has water in it. And they think there's a rule they need to adhere to, and not trust the fact that our bodies are actually pretty good at letting us know when we need water.
It's called a forecast. So what if they are off by only 10 years? Does it matter? Because it's certainly going to be ice-free way before 2100.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-i...

This year is looking like it will set the record for lowest yet. My guess is that it will be ice-free in September within 5 years because it's an exponential decay. Note "ice-free" is agreed to mean less than 1mil square kilometers.
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In 2014, there was a fake weather report to imagine what would the temperature be in 2050.

https://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_canicule-un-bulletin-...

Seems like we are 30 years too early
Arguably, most of the components end users care about (like desktop environment) have nothing to do with the GNU project.
Maybe I'm biased, but take a look at Denver as a compromise? It doesn't fit all of your preferences (it's very sunny and the snow melts quickly), but it's also very low humidity, convenient to snowy towns in the mountains, and we've pretty much had at least a few minutes of rain every day for the last month or two.

There are also a ton of ex-Texans here.
(it was a lame joke)
Sure. For example, local river fish start dying at 28C. The Rhine is now at 26C.
I work with programming languages, interpreters and compilers for my PHD and I have to say that this ongoing book is one of the best introductions to the topic that I have seen. It is both well written and knowledgeable.

Even if you don't think the whole book is for you, I recommend checking out the introduction sections. Or at least just the discussion on the terminology of "interpreter" vs "compiler".

https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html

https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html
I've found keyword filtering to be very effective, but they limit your filter list to 200 keywords and they don't apply to ads (so I can't block ads about blockchain stuff).
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Predicting personality traits from activity intensity using mobile phones
Ah, you're right. I fixed it.
Thanks.
They just don’t have the cooling capacity on the hottest days.
As of last month it is not.
Man, after reading this article I have a sudden urge for some curly fries from an Arby's off the interstate.
What I would love on iOS would be an isolated container like the Multi-account Containers on Firefox desktop. With a PWA, how are the cookies (and local storage) stored and handled? Do they all live with Safari's cookies? Or do they have their own cookie container that's isolated from the rest of the system? If it were the former, I wouldn't want that.

I regularly use Firefox Focus (which is also the system wide content blocker for me), but it doesn't seem like its blocking rules are updated often. Not sure if that's because of some limit in the number of rules allowed per blocking extension.
Joshua from the Product team at Bench here.

Sorry to hear about your experience with us, Meekro. We try to provide as hands-free an experience as possible, but know we have work to do.

We're sometimes stuck relying on bank statements due to the poor quality of data coming from bank feeds. This means we need to wait until month end to finalize books (and sometimes later if a credit card statement has a late statement date), leading to the timing challenge you described. We do this to ensure your books are completely accurate and ready for tax-time, with no fixes needed.

To address the above problem, we recently launched a new feature we're calling Pulse, to help manage day-to-day cash flow and spending. We're releasing improvements to it every week. https://bench.co/blog/operations/cash-flow-pulse/

The manual classification issue sounds like a failure on our part. We should not be repeatedly requesting input on the same transactions. If you shoot me an email (joshua@bench.co), I'd be happy to help. From the Product side, we're experimenting with using clustering models to better tackle the problem and remove some burden from our bookkeepers.

Lastly, on the tax front, we've got you covered! Our ambition is to do exactly what you're looking for - handle bookkeeping and taxes together on the back end, so you don't have to think about it. We'll have a formal announcement coming very soon. Please reach out to your bookkeeper if interested.
Right. I've seen an increase in off-topic NYT articles making it to the front page over the last 18 months or so. They can peddle their social-opinion pieces elsewhere.
Anyone who's done research would understand China is the one country that has no reason to make the effort of developing a backdoor because it's required that all companies will hand out their data through the front door, and the vast majority of Chinese people seem to be okay with the security vs privacy trade off.
That's a good example of how the lies of art can create a greater truth. It's rare to see all the big corporate logos superimposed on different parts of the field of view, rather like the sponsorship patches on the jacket of a NASCAR driver, but it speaks to a real experience of one gas station, diner or fast food place after another that is encountered across interstate America.
Probably. Much of Europe hasn't really needed AC until now.

It would often only have been really impactful for one or two weeks a year. Not really worth the investment.

With temperatures climbing this high, and being maintained for longer periods, I recently bought my first mobile AC unit and am thinking about installing a permanent one after the summer.
...which shows how ingrained the idea of oligopoly & big business is in the U.S.

There's nothing inherently wrong with forcing Apple to divest their in-house apps. They did it before, when they spun out Claris in 1987. Likely, it would lead to better competitors within those markets than we have now; there was a renaissance in Mac office software after Claris was formed, which unfortunately Microsoft won. Perhaps if Microsoft had also been forbidden from building apps for their own platform, we would still have functioning word processing and spreadsheet markets.

(Though remembering this time period, I can think of another problem: file formats. Having a choice between MacWrite, WordPerfect, Ami, and Microsoft Word was great. Having to share your MacWrite files with someone using Ami was miserable.)
Even in Finland where we’ve been mostly spared from >30° weather, portable AC units have been sold out for a couple of months now.
I would go less with blaming optimism and more the mirrored bubble of the internet itself. Everyone out there is just like me, right?
Most research in America is funded by U.S. government grants at least partially if not mostly. What's your point? Am I to believe that any research agency that receives US grant money is secretly a propaganda arm of the government?

I don't really know what you expect me or the average layperson to do. I can't get on a plane and go to Xianjing, but I can read and listen to the experiences and stories of the many people that have fled the region and entrust the credibility that (certain) journalists have to do investigative journalism. The source of the article I linked to is one of many.

Also consider that you don't have to be sitting in a detainment camp to be a victim of a cultural genocide.
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" It may not even be accurate compared to today"

This is my point. It's not that accurate and to use it as a basis for climate models is ridiculous.
> Taking advantage of so many extra cores by a single process is not all that easy or common.

Browsers are both multiprocess and multithreaded. The ability to run a few webapps without having your system drag to a halt is a feature that's important to essentially everyone.
One thing that should worry you in particular is that there is a temperature range photosynthesis happens in, and that temperature range ends at about 40C.

This isn't necessarily an immediate problem for plants, because plants store extra calories generated from photosynthesis for future use, and when the temperature is too hot they can switch from photosynthesis to respiration, consuming their stored sugars for energy. During this time, plants become net producers of CO2 instead of net consumers, taking in oxygen, burning their sugars (in the same slow chemical burn we use) and releasing the CO2 at the end.

This is an immediate concern for us, because those stored calories are what we wanted to eat. Plants may survive higher temperatures, but they produce fewer stored calories in the form of delicious fruits, vegetables and grains for us to eat. Climate change is complicated for agriculture, but extra days above (or close to) 40C is just bad, bad, bad.
> Makes me want to mess around with a browser extension that uses perceptual hashing to filter smug frog images or whatever.

I'd like to be able to filter tweets from users that have keywords in their user bio (e.g. frog emojis or #QAnon).
Temperate, not necessarily arable. Arable implies soil conditions, etc which most of these areas probably don't have.
Do you know why they gave up? Did Linux not work for them? Or were they persuaded by the MS sales team?
Scheduling jitter does not cause jitter in audio, because audio is buffered and the buffer is consumed by audio device using it's own clock. Yet OS has to fill the buffer in time or underrun will happen, which will be audible as crackling and stutter. For some applications input and output audio buffers need to be very small to avoid introducing noticeable delay in audio processing, and in this case real-time capabilities are required to prevent buffer overruns and underruns.
woow thats so much miss information assumptions and truth roled into a meatball paragraph. the only truth is maybe with regards to solar city accusation which again makes some business sense if you think of creating a competitive alternate to coal power . But i digress . lets take everything you said were true then people should sue him, lets the courts decide. also lets just assume for a second that there isnt literal billions to be made by shorting the stock and we live in a fantasy world where wall street ass clown behave honorably and wouldnt meddle with a companies operation just to make a quick buck. now the question of which fantasy land you come from "unacceptable behaviour in securities markets" the same markets which scalp daytraders with HFT , the same market which brought the world close to the brink of collapse in 2008, the same market which controls the health care and water supply of millions and views it as commodity and not a basic human right. I want to be real here for a second ELons whole goal was to accelarate the advent of EV transport which he did by 2 decades or so . He didnt expect tesla to go on for so long nobody did he just kept working one problem at a time to create gr8 products . And still to date there isnt competition for tesla in the price bracket which the fall. be it safety, performance, upkeep cost(cost of gas) and fun value (entertainment and technology) .
I think similar mechanism explains why some diseases blow up into epidemic and some fizzle out. Epidemiologists have all the hard math on just how much friction is needed.
"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."

-- Winston Churchill, 1949
> ... according to a widely cited 2004 report from the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies. People get about 20% of their water from food, the report states.

It gets the number from that report, which is just above your quote. The article contains a link to the report: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2004/Dietary-Re.... Maybe the link was added later, but the article includes its source
The Sheets in Breezewood is one of the few Sheets in the north that have Cheerwine in the soda fountain.

That's why I always stop at Breezewood.
> Science is too busy describing and analyzing every minute details

But that's what science is. It's the iterative process of observation and deduction -- a bottom-up ontology built from observation, experimentation, and interpretation. It's built on the philosophical assumption that reality is orderly, fundamental physical laws (and constants/quantities) are the same everywhere, and that they were the same in the past and will be the same in the future. Those are just working assumptions - we have no reason to assume they're universally true, but they've been very helpful in a practical sense.

Philosophy and religion, on the other hand, offer first principles and a system of inductive logic and reasoning based on them (well, those that are coherent - many are not). It's a top-down reasoning system based on (hopefully) just a few axioms, that (hopefully) provides coherent answers on questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny -- the sorts of answers the human heart needs to have a sense of context in life.
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Because reactors need a lot of water as coolant, and they were designed with assumptions about how high the temperature of the water would be, which are now being broken. They started building that reactor in 1982, before they understood that temperatures were in the process of rising 1.5C (up to now).
> what you use it for

In some cases it makes it easier to cause harm, so weaponize seems appropriate (turning a non-weapon into a weapon)...
I would not be optimistic about that working as any kind of legal loophole to get around US export restrictions. I don't know any reason it would. (I am not a lawyer).
Sorry but I disagree completely. The ability to quickly find information online doesn’t negate the fact that intellectual progress and creativity often come from making connections between disparate fields. The only way to make these deeper connections is to truly know and digest the information, not simply to google it.

It is probably a consequence of the computer age that we think of information as a singular piece of data that is either known/nor known, and not as something that needs to be learned, dwelt upon, and digested over time.
A similar pattern emerged here in the US this summer. It won't be long before people take to the streets here in the US. I expect nothing short of full scale, city wide riots within 3 years.
It could also be that you are not used to it. I have periods where I don’t drink much and then I am not thirsty. As soon as I force myself to drink more I also feel thirsty more. If you are not used to drinking it’s also easy to confuse being thirsty with being hungry.