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The first time I watched 60fps film was over 20 years ago, when I saw a short Showscan movie at Futuroscope in Poitiers, France. I hadn't even heard the phrase "frame rate" back then. But I immediately knew that Showscan looked amazingly better than anything I'd seen before. It was the first film I'd seen that looked anywhere close to realistic, and nothing else at Futuroscope could compare. I watched it again because I liked it so much.

I think motion smoothing is on by default because people like it, not because TV manufacturers are idiots.
Four days later, the Coast Guard announced that a Mississippi company would build a new heavy icebreaker by 2024 for $746million.

That is very expensive considering that our newest heavy ice breaker costs "only" 123 million Euros.

https://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/uusi-jaanmurtaja-polaris-...
Thank you! It's nice to be recognized properly.
E3 accidentally leaks personal details of journalists, YouTubers and analysts
They only need to switch it to airplane mode!

Kidding aside, the concerns over the possibility for such actions were the primary reasons why the Turkish public was totally O.K. with being expelled from the F-35 program.
I live across the bridge in Malmö, and visit Copenhagen infrequently. It really is quite a lovely city, and our proximity seems to create a faux competition for Sweden. Since Malmö enjoys many of the same benefits in transportation but without such population density.

People -love- their cars. And Denmark/Sweden try to dissuade people from owning them with heavy taxes and expensive parking.

But I’ve noticed if you ever try to take a car from someone who has one they with fight you until you’re burger. To many people it means freedom, and until public transport and bikes are much stronger alternatives you’re not going to make any friends.

Which is a catch-22. You need to limit cars because they consume a lot of space and make a lot of noise (and can be dangerous) but few have an appetite for limiting cars.

I think if there’s a change it needs to be very gradual, over generations.
Is it just me or does the use of the term "military industrial complex" seem pejorative in this context? It feels like the author is trying to inject an opinion in what should otherwise be objective fact based journalism.
There are a lot of people in Africa, India and Brazil with much less stable governance systems and infrastructure. Even if in 15 years we noted some shift in the climate that was going to impact tens of millions of people in these regions within 5 years thereafter, I don't know I believe humanity is well prepared to mobilize for that. To me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape.
You could just as well turn all of those statements around and say the same thing.
Not unless they sold the things I would otherwise buy. And that is unlikely.
Actually, production companies are the ones uploading 60 fps live performances. Producers are well aware that 60 fps looks better, they are just not capable of doing it for all the content they produce.
Why faux?
I don't think there is a dominant alternative but there are almost an infinite number of them. PivotalTracker, Rally, Trello, Aha, Asana, Basecamp, GitHub Issues, etc
There was no pledge said at my schools in the 90s.
With Ohtani injury, it’s three strikes and out for the stem cell scam (2018)
There's an awesome discussion of Potosí and its wider role in the first stages of globalization in Mann's book 1493.
How does one know so much detailed info about this topic?
It's more complicated. The lie is using the same symbol for the usual summation and the extended version of the summations.

We all agree about the value of a finite summation.

We all agree about the value of a sum when the summation is absolutely convergent.

We all (almost) agree when the summation converges, but the convergence is not absolute.

This is the standard definition that is used in a calculus course, but be aware that when the convergence is not absolute there are some minor problems here and there. It's much better if you have absolute convergence.

After that, the idea is that you can extend the definition of summation. The more easy way is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesàro_summation but the other comment posted a link to a more generic article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_series

Cesàro summation is fine, you don't get too many surprises using it. But when you extend too much the definition of summation you get more weird results, and you loose some properties of the standards summation, for example a+b+c+d+e+... = a + (b+c+d+e+...).

In particular, to get a finite result for 1+2+3+4+... you have to use extend the definition of summation a lot, perhaps too much, and there are many ways to do the extension, and not all of them give the same result.

If you have half an hour to spare, I highly recommend to watch "Ramanujan: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co." by Mathologer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcKRGpMiVTw
Is it official? The Startup Industrial Complex?
For the type system aspects, there are two steps:

1. Learn the theory. Yes, you need to. On this matter, the book "Types and Programming Languages" (or TAPL for short) is the bible: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/

2. Implement toy type systems. There are several resources for this, but personally, I like this one: http://plzoo.andrej.com/
Numerous studies show no increase in cancer risk from cellular. In many respects, millimeter waves are even safer, because they can't penetrate through the skin as easily. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/science/5g-cellphones-wir... https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2019/04/30/is_5g_w...
I don’t understand why TV manufacturers can’t just have dynamic frame rate change to match the content like Apple ProMotion (https://m.gsmarena.com/understanding_apples_promotion_displa...)
Show HN: A simpler alternative to LiveReload (trigger reload of tab in browser)
Lawyers strive to become as good as possible at aggressively defending the objectively wrong opinion. He's either doing this as some sort of devil's advocate exercise or he's actually getting ready to defend 5G technology in court.
I wonder why Latin-1 and not just UTF-8
The Amber-Fossil Supply Chain Has a Dark Human Cost
You can make more money during a gold rush by selling tools and equipment to the 99% of people who will fail than by deluding yourself into thinking you'll be the 1% who strikes gold.
I don't see any evidence in the Rogers report summary that management believed the launch failure rate would be 1 in 10^8. It seems like the report suggests a management belief of 1 in 10^5 (which is still fantastically and unjustifiably optimistic given the complexity and historical track record of space missions, of course).

The typical reliable car fails to about as frequently as 1 in 10,000.
My understanding is 5g over 4g bands will have lower latency and better spectrum use.

So while not as big a jump as 3g->4g still some improvements there.
Because Copenhagen isn’t competing at all.
The comment you replied to is talking about fare dodgers, not actual ghosts.
And how does that apply to a public tech companies that are still losing money like PagerDuty, Dropbox, Mongo, and ElasticCo?
Yes, it could be that people are tacky.

After all most movies watched (especially today) are crap.
China has been one of apples largest and fastest growing markets for a long time now.
Erlang and prolog use dots in this way.
The phrase “old C# code bases” makes me feel incredibly old.
And then when people will inevitably start wanting better home security (I'm thinking armored doors and such, not hackable "smart" locks) as a consequence of this, the government will start whining about not being able to break into people's homes as easily when they look for someone.
Minus the value of the time it costs you to sell the goods.
The best software for this I’ve seen is Tachyon but it’s way above consumer technology level for cost and compute resources. https://cinnafilm.com/product/tachyon/

Like the interface and OS I assume the TV manufacturers are mostly using cheap versions of what they think they can get away with without pushing up their costs.
Glasses have saved my sight in an eye twice. Once was avoidable stupidity (kids are dumb), once was unavoidable. I see them as protective as much as for vision now. I don't want contacts.
1.) Create long password - it can be even short sentence, it is also easier to remember.

2.) Add at least one uppercase, one lowercase, the number and special character.

3.) Do not use any personal information or something that is easy to guess.

4.) Don't reuse passwords - use unique password for each account.
Just how big a problem is voter suppression?
Fascinating, are you aware of a nuclear powered commercial cargo?
5G is the absolute last thing standing in the way of self-driving cars.
root comment here. For the record I intended to use the term to imply that they are geographically distant from each other and the mutation is probably not from single parent.
>This is why many Americans won’t give their guns away.

It's not like those guns do anything. Americans seldom protest their governments laws, and are conditioned to be living and having passed upon them way worse laws than French (without guns) have...
> With current draconian data plans of just a few gb what use would 5g be to the average consumer?

I have no idea where this argument comes from. Was 4G useless because carriers stuck with the same data caps we had from the 3G era? Today, the average U.S. smartphone subscriber uses 6GB/month of cellular data, well below the 20GB+ soft-cap of every provider's unlimited plan: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/28/heres-how-much-sma....

With 5G, those caps will go up further. Verizon isn't even applying the 22GB 4G throttling limit to 5G yet: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263593/verizon-5g-servi....
They turned two lane narrow roads into four wide lane undivided roads with no shoulder or sidewalk or crosswalk, other than traffic lights half a mile to a mile apart. They provided no public transportation. They subsidized fossil fuel production.

The freedom of the car is an illusion unless there are other options.
So, like a century ago, when the state was 1/10 what it is now?
How to Make Gasoline from Tea
Be assured that it has changed a lot of things...
My baby doesn't weigh 50kg. Once he's that heavy, he can walk himself.
It will be interesting to see if France tries next time. The UK, Germany and Italy certainly can't.
The article has a whole paragraph dedicated to your question
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Ask HN: Our founders are just assholes. What are the chances we won't fail?
Hi hn, I need a reality check. I'm at a job where the founders really don't care about people, and treat employees like crap. We seem to have a good market, with customers who pay a lot of money for our product. What are the chances we will succeed if the founders are assholes?

The team I work with writing code is great. We're strong programmers. People have good ideas and understand the tech. We're able to iterate and ship quickly. But interacting with the founders (one technical, one not) is a constant blame game of poor communication. They will get angry with people for not doing something that wasn't communicated. Any difference in understanding is blamed on the person writing code. This happens almost daily.

My job feels like getting paid to put up with abuse. People literally get yelled at. Get called out in front of the team for "not delivering", when most of the time the work was done. People get fired for dumb reasons. We've had 20+ people get fired or quit in frustration in the past two years (the whole team turning over several times). Is that normal?

I would never refer anyone. I'm stressed all of the time. I don't see my family. I put in so much overtime. I get sometimes you need to work hard, but it feels no amount of work would fix the root problem: our founders treat people like crap. They have fired people and made it very clear they intend to buy their way through any problems by just hiring new people.

I do have some stock and I'm trying to decide if I should keep putting up with the abuse for the chance of a payoff. Our customers like us and have lots of money. It seems like we have a good product that might be an underdiscovered niche. The founders keep talking about how a buyout would be amazing and we would all get rich. But, that's kind of their job to say that.

How do I determine our chance of success to know whether I should stay? Does having asshole founders make us much more likely to succeed or to fail?
Yes, fake chips have been a problem too, polluting the supply space. All the more reason to protect and verify IP. There's new tech for that. Maybe the next big thing. Hardware verified. Authenticity.
No, you chose to ignore the word choice of the original comment to fit your own argument. Note that in the comment chain I've repeatedly said that I actually support your viewpoint. I just don't support the means by which you argued it.
Man i did not expect to see a buzzfeed title from 1994.
That's good point I hadn't thought of!
Might be more accurate, despite this being the headline, to change the title to “ESA accidentally leaks...”. The ESA is the trade organization that puts on E3 and the entity that is ultimately responsible for this.
They're the same encoding, given only characters covered by Latin-1. So it's just a little more explicit to say Latin-1, as you're specifying not only the encoding, but also the set of characters.

Edit: I.e. it would be awkward to say you're implementing "UTF-8, but only for these codepoints". That would be equivalent to implementing Latin-1.

Edit: I'm thinking of standard ASCII rather than Latin-1. Above the first 128 code points, UTF-8 switches to two bytes while Latin-1 remains with one byte, so it is much simpler.
Hitherto is certainly used more often than heretofore or hereto (also hither and yon(der))
> It exempts brands of flavored water.

Does “flavored with electrolytes” count?
I have the feeling that if there were ever a war between major powers breaking out, the first thing that would happen is that a large chunk of military equipment and critical infrastructure on both sides would get bricked pretty much immediately.
> multiple concurrent instances of the same app, spoofing device IDs, identifying when an app needs attention, etc.

The first 2 are legitimately useful features in general, and for that matter I believe spoofing the device ID was already possible via xprivacy. But consider: Being able to have multiple instances of the same exact app, with different data storage, and in an ideal world the ability to run multiple of them at the same time, would be cool ... but also useful. As an obvious example, consider that mobile browsers don't support multiple profiles like desktop browsers do; this would make that work.
From the article:

* Gecko is huge and it uses TwoByte strings in most places. Converting all of Gecko to use UTF8 strings is a much bigger project and has its own risks. As described below, we currently inflate Latin1 strings to TwoByte Gecko strings and that was also a potential performance risk, but inflating Latin1 is much faster than inflating UTF8.

* Linear-time indexing: operations like charAt require character indexing to be fast. We discussed solving this by adding a special flag to indicate all characters in the string are ASCII, so that we can still use O(1) indexing in this case. This scheme will only work for ASCII strings, though, so it’s a potential performance risk. An alternative is to have such operations inflate the string from UTF8 to TwoByte, but that’s also not ideal.

* Converting SpiderMonkey’s own string algorithms to work on UTF8 would require a lot more work. This includes changing the irregexp regular expression engine we imported from V8 a few months ago (it already had code to handle Latin1 strings).
Alas, I'm just a nerd who likes radios and infrastructure, and is fed up with NIMBYs and feelers.

EDIT: regarding "who stands to gain"--consumers! It's very odd to me that I'd have to defend the technology upgrade treadmill on HN of all places. In October, Apple's going to come out with the A13 chip. Is anyone going to wonder "who benefits?" Or ask "why do we need it?" No, we'll all understand that the A12 is obsolete trash now. That's how this industry works.
It's a great city, I still miss living there. I used to use public transport to go to work and it was awesome. Going to work by bike on large bike lanes is even better. Not to speak of the lack of car noise, which is the most annoying thing in cities - though you won't realise that until you experience a car-free day or zone for the first time.

I'm currently living in Lisbon, which also has a very good living quality, but I'd say that the living quality in Copenhagen is unparalleled. I'd move there anytime if I had a good job opportunity there. I still work in Academia and Copenhagen University does not have many open positions, so no chance for me. Not that I complain about Lisbon's sunshine.

You can still have a car in Copenhagen, if you really want one, you know. It's not a matter of choices, it's a matter of nudging people in the right direction and tax them in a way that improves living quality and society as a whole. However, living in a low/no-traffic area can only be appreciated properly once you've experienced it. IMHO, it's one of those things that need to be experienced before forming an informed opinion. That's why it can be hard to sell politically.
I think the headline is just trying to be objective and let the readers come to their own conclusions.

Climate change has always been happening. What is "normal" has always been changing. The Azolla event led to the decrease of atmospheric CO2 from 3500ppm to 650ppm over the period of 800k years. Humanity has (so far) increased atmospheric CO2 from 280ppm to 400ppm. Yes, we're faster than Azolla. But we'll probably stop or be stopped before we reach 3500ppm.

One of my favourite recent HN comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496507):

> So, this is all a part of natural cycle. Humans are part of life on Earth. Some life on Earth captures CO2, and the other emits CO2, until it runs into some consequences; then the cycle repeats.
Nobody was implying that the "Dark matter" devs do not get stuff done or don't have the skills, you missed the argument of the article.
No need to imagine anything. It's happening right now in your country.
So you're saying the listed film directors have some vested interest in 24fps? And all the film lovers are just following their lead?

I don't buy it.
Sure, as an approximation. But using a more appropriate distribution matching the statistical model would be preferable.
Looks like Elm.

Why did you add magic imports? It seems strange to go for purely functional behavior and then add magic side effects.
That's why the JVM (and platforms with a similar philosophy), to me, is the best runtime there can be. Sure, there's fancy state-of-the-art stuff being integrated into it; but the most compelling feature is the continuing commitment to making dusty old jars work, unmodified.
You say "arty" like it's a bad thing. How peculiar.
Fascinating!

Anyone got a good source for the 103 tons per acre stat?

All I've found so far is the Bloomberg link, which I think is from the World Tree Website (the company spotlighted in the article). World Tree [1] says the source is The Environmental Resources Trust, but doesn't provide a link.

https://worldtree.info/carbon-offsets/
Peter Jackson encouraged people to see The Hobbit in 48 fps. Personally, I hate 24 fps - it looks so stuttery. But it's purely personal preference.
I had an opportunity to decide on what cpu to use for our company’s system refresh last October. We have about 300 laptops and 150 desktops. The only restriction was it had to be a certain Dell latitude version or Dell Optiplex. Dell did not offer any AMD CPU’s for those models at that time. I haven’t checked since. We decided to go with intel core i7. This was a lost opportunity as the Dell rep explained that in order to have the Amd chip, Dell would need to change the motherboard and other items and those systems were designed for Intel. I am disappointed but the corporate restriction on which model to use had to do with the corporate images that were only compatible with those models
The question is "who stands to gain"?

I can't see 5G benefiting consumers at all. If you're on a 4G network, you already see no issues with streaming video.

Who is 5G even for? It's a solution seeking a problem.
Isn’t soda technically just flavored water too? It is after all, mostly water.
Huge computing power ‘can deliver human-level AI in 5 years’
This is actually covered in the original Unicode paper. See section 2.1 of https://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf.

The reasoning is not totally crazy; the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters even today only has about 8000 characters.
This post feels a little disingenuous...

First of all, it's not like most engineers at Google are working on Bigtable or Borg, with a "very simple interface and tons of hidden internal complexity". Plenty of them are working on normal consumer-facing products, the "software with a simple core and lots of customer visible features that are incrementally useful", although maybe that's not the hype people want to believe.

But either way -- he insists "companies like Google write revolutionary software which has never been written before, and which doesn’t work until complex subcomponents are written." But putting aside the "revolutionary" hype, there's no reason subcomponents can't have agile philosophies applied.

A big part of agile is ensuring developers actually understand the requirements (consensus via point estimation), seek to define requirements where they're suddenly discovered to be vague/undefined, and have frequent check-ins to demonstrate that their software is making progress towards those requirements and raising any potential blockers early on, and not accidentally going down a rabbit hole of building the wrong thing (despite best intentions) for weeks at a time which nobody notices until too late, and the project is delayed by months.

That's just as important for a subcomponent of a subcomponent, as it is for a service dashboard. To assume agile is only for "consumer-facing" software is a deep and fundamental misunderstanding.
They didn’t make it expensive and difficult to park in the city. It is inherently expensive and difficult, because space is valuable and cars take up a lot of it. What they did is expose that expense and difficulty directly to the car owner rather than subsidizing it.

Surely having the government pay for a gigantic road network and vast amounts of parking spaces and making it all available to people for free is more like communism?
Show HN: Desktop Viewer for WebAssembly Modules
Hello there,

I’m working on a desktop viewer application for WebAssembly modules for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and I’m looking to have some feedback from real-world use.

The application is fairly small, requires no installation for now, and is limited to the minimum functionality, but I have more features in mind for the future. Testers would get a free license including future releases.

If you’re interested, drop me a mail at contact@thewaywarddeveloper.com with the platform(s) you could test on. It would be helpful if you could tell me about in what capacity do you work with WebAssembly, so I can have an idea about your use case.

Thanks,
wayward
But we're not talking about web browsers per se - we're talking about the javascript ecosystem. The complexity of which is only indirectly related to that of the browser.
the current web makes me miss the days of gopher and browsing with lynx.
The article specifies why they didn't convert everything to UTF-8 - not how they chose the encoding for that subset of lower code points.