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Web developers amaze me.

ALL (all) of the problems they face are either self-inflicted or due to other web developers, such as those who design web advertisements or bloated JavaScript libraries. The problems with sending multiple simultaneous streams to a browser are due to web developers deciding to design a web page with hundreds of individual files to be downloaded. Rendering times are long because of the complexity that today's sites are built to attain.

I can view simple sites EXTREMELY quickly today -- that is to say, sites that designers have not "improved" to the point that the site is no longer worth visiting. A simple page shows me what I want to see, and doesn't take a designer 400 hours to come up with.

All of today's problems on the web are due to web developers.

I'll fight and die on this hill, and no amount of downvotes will change my mind about this in the slightest.
Must be quite an honor for Shaun Esau. I know I would be flattered.
It might seem like that if you don't read the article.

If you did read the article, you would see this:

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All the accounts have been suspended for a range of violations of our platform manipulation policies, which we define as:

- Spam

- Coordinated activity

- Fake accounts

- Attributed activity

- Ban evasion
The "not actual gameplay" disclaimer was only shown onscreen during that brief silhouette shot of the craft flying over the moon. Does it apply to the entire trailer?
qualias (consciousness, feelings, senses) might be impossible to create through transistors.
But it does not matter, we can build something functionally equivalent in a computable way.
This is called: a philosophical zombie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
DX means Developer Experience.
I'll say something regarding string theory which has been accused of leading physicists astray because of its "mathematical beauty". First of all, string theory in its present form is NOT mathematically beautiful. The mathematical theories used in string theory are in fact beautiful but the way they are stitched together is an UGLY Frankenstein mess. It's essentially the same ugly math that particle physics was built upon in the 60s and 70s. Lie algebras, conformal fields, algebraic topology etc. are all very beautiful maths but they rest upon this ugly mess of correlation functions, vertex operators, BRST invariant (gulp) Lagrangians and other brick-a-brack nobody should be proud of but gets the job done.

The problem with string theory is 21st century mathematics is still in its infancy. I have reasonable confidence that string theory is essentially correct only that the present maths and our understanding of QM (which needs improvement) is definitely not up to the task. Many topics like the Penrose singularity theorems in General relativity were impossible until Einstein's theory was formulated correctly with rigorous mathematics. IMHO this is the case with string theory. It simply won't work with the tools we have.

Another thing about String theory is that it very well could be a complete description of physics on anti-deSitter space. That would be progress but it still wouldn't be a unified field theory. We would need to find a more general theory which allows for deSitter space.

So there's my opinion. If anyone doubts mathematical beauty leads us to better things, plain old vanilla Classical mechanics is looking stronger than ever before and is still yielding interesting physics. Part of the reason for this is that the mathematical foundation of CM were still not understood properly until the mid 20th century. Give the other theories time to catch up. Mathematical beauty is the best guide we have. If strings turn out to be wrong then that's fine. Mathematical beauty is still the best guide we have. If we listen closely enough to what the equations are really saying then we'll find something better.
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Your principles seem to be summed up as: so long as someone is speaking their opinion respectfully and in good faith, it matters not what that opinion is; and that the defense of this necessitates a generous presumption of good faith.

We must acknowledge that HN carries a substantial degree of influence, and consider how to responsibly wield that influence. The readers here are a lucractive demographic - generally we are an educated, wealthy, and politically engaged group. As propaganda becomes more sophisticated, it's likely - if not inevitable - that it will target us. It's the responsibility of the moderators of our online spaces to protect us from propaganda, else Hacker News is used as a weapon, to ill or to good - a possibility that you must be aware of.

Distinguishing between propaganda and genuinely held positions is difficult, and approaches impossible as propaganda technology becomes more sophisticated. For this reason, I think it's reasonable to suggest that certain viewpoints are simply not welcome on Hacker News. There are some easy examples: racist or sexist views being one of them. I presume that someone expressing racist viewpoints, no matter how eloquently stated, is not welcome to do so on Hacker News. Then there are more difficult problems, which stem from a complex web of related judgements. To address these, I suggest reflecting on your own moral principles, and considering what ideals are worth protecting in the face of propaganda. In the case of Hong Kong, the ideals at risk here are the right to self governance. And there's little question that the alternative Hong Kong faces would be tragic - China is demonstrably a country with little freedoms afforded to its people and large-scale human rights violations being carried out all the time. The demonstrators in Hong Kong will not be let off easy for the risks they're taking, should they fail.

In short: like it or not, HN is a tool which will be wielded by oppressors, and will likely be an effective tool at that. Identifying oppressors is difficult but identifying the values of oppressors is easier.

Also worth note: HN is inextricably linked to YC, which has financial investments in China. If you don't want to be views as having a pro-China bias, you need to put in extra work to remove the foot from your mouth.
Yes and before that it was Mongolian supremacy and before that parsi supremacy. In other words, cultures die and new ones form. We do not owe it to the world to preserve existing diversity. Sure take down artificial barriers to societal continuity for those who want it. That's human rights not particular to any group of people. But diversity is not something to be preserved. That's a regressively conservative approach to diversity and stems from a lack of appreciation of the true source of diversity: having a shit ton of people
Yes but it's been out for 8 years surely if it being closed allowed quicker development we would have seen something visible from the outside in that time.
The classification of finite simple groups. From an outsider's perspective, it's ream upon ream of brutal case analysis. Some will certainly find beauty in the thousands of pages; the historicity nature of the ~150y effort is undeniable and awe-inspiring.

Classification theorems, in general, are frequently beautiful in their structure. But they often involve delving deep into rabbit holes, in order to prove the non-existence of the impossible.
Going even further, a lot of people in the advertisement industry see it as just providing a way for companies to inform consumers that their products even exist. The point of ad targeting in this worldview is to figure out who already wants to know that certain products exist, not to change anyone's mind by getting them to purchase something they don't want to.
You never know when you’re going to find the next trick that will actually work to fool your brain into letting you get shit done for a while. These days I mostly rely on my own version of the Pomodoro method but I have definitely found value in other ideas now and then.
yes just like they just believed the government of libya should've behaved differently... the point is to provide an explanation as to why people here just happen to share the same opinion as those "uncoordinated" U.S.-led operations whose explicit goal is to topple china.

also it's important to note that not everyone in the U.S. who is exposed to U.S. propaganda is going to develop the same opinion (specifically those internally colonized nations such as immigrants and people of color otherwise). so why the hacker news crowd, why reddit, why twitter? the answer is so obvious it hurts. so my comment cannot convince 99.9% of the people who read it but perhaps there are one or two people to whom i can offer some solace (such as the OP of this chain). not interested in debate
This doesn’t make sense. The slaving government in ancient Egypt was supported for a long time. Just because a form of government exists doesn’t mean it isn’t abusive to some of it’s people or to other countries.
> Bill Gates didn't write DOS he purchased it after selling it to IBM

As I recall the purchased DOS was extensively modified and redone for IBM.
The game targets Mono and written in C# so reverse engineering it should be simpler than a game compiled into a native binary.
This statement is really just a bunch of rich dudes signaling that they are scared of the growing class consciousness. All these people are unaccountable and will continue doing shitty things unless you TAKE THEIR POWER AWAY. Unionize. Regulate. Break-Up.
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And then, eventually, you'll have done everything in the game... And then you'll install RSS+RP-0 [0] and struggle to get back into orbit again. The mods add a ton of depth beyond what the base game can provide.

For those curious, RSS stands for Real Solar System - replacing the Kerbol system with ours. This is a large difficulty ramp, since things in our solar system are far larger than those in Kerbol, so even with the same surface gravities delta v requirements end up much higher. (For instance, ~2.7km/s is enough to hit orbit on Kerbin if flown properly, while 9.5km/s is more common on Earth) To partially compensate for this you have RP-0, a modpack that (among other things) replaces all the engines, fuels, tanks and other parts with their real life counterparts, making the higher delta v requirements actually achievable. (And also adding a ton of complications, such as life support, communications delay, cryogenic fuel boil off, limited restarts, fuel ullage, and more!)

0: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RP-0
You are not far off. All the environmental nuts have been preventing either harvesting of dead (!) wood or controlled burns for years.

Eventually nature wins.

Just a few examples:
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-carr-wildfire-...
https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/lawsuit-halted-...
https://psmag.com/environment/how-california-failed-to-preve...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/power...

Wish I could find the video of a forest manager in 2018 fighting back tears of anger over what was happening that could have - should have been - prevented.
While searching for a list of topics in Encarta, I found a PC Mag article recommending Encarta over other encyclopedias of the day - it really took me back, I’d forgotten how I used to get all my software recommendations from magazines - https://books.google.ca/books?id=6qzzglITYTYC&pg=PA158&lpg=P...
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> Especially when learning Norwegian I noticed that many words are obviously cognages with either German or English, but not both.

There's some extra hilarity there because it's not like all three Scandinavian languages have chosen the same cognates as each other. Swedish more often picked the German version of a word instead of the Old Norse that Norwegian and Danish picked.

"window" is "vindue" in da/no, but "fönster" in se, from "fenster" in ge.

"question" is "spørsmål" in da/no, but "fråga" in se, from "frage" in ge. (Oh look, English picked the French word here!)

There's probably examples of the opposite where Swedish picked the Old Norse word, and Danish or Norwegian picked something from German instead, but I can't think of any right now.
Seems that CCTV is doing its job then eh? :-)
I agree that there is nothing wrong with people sincerely stating their pro-Chinese government views, even if they focus only on China-related topics in a way that makes them look like a sock puppet.

But that’s the moral hazard of being on the side of an entity that makes extensive use of astro-turfing. Its sincere supporters are more likely to be perceived as sock puppets.

There’s another discussion to be had about whether one should discount the opinions of those who live under a state of pervasive censorship, but that’s a lot more nuanced since we all have our own filter bubbles.
I would start by defining terms rigorously.

Here are the words I saw:

value, customers, expectations, investing, employees, compensating, fairly, providing, important, benefits, supporting, training, education, skills, changing, diversity, inclusion, dignity, respect, dealing, ethically, suppliers, good, partners, companies, missions, communities, respect, protect, environment, embracing, sustainable, businesses, generating, long-term, shareholders, capital, innovate, transparent, effective, engagement

Why?

1. Look at how the gig economy pushes contractors further and further towards being employees in all but name, but so much in the way of benefits is tied up in whether or not the name or classification applies.

2. The statements talk about benefits that corporations bring and the support they provide but neglect to mention the costs they incur and the side-effects they place upon others. Corporations are organisms of a kind, and most if not all organisms consume some inputs to produce some outputs. Some of the those outputs are waste. That waste must to be accounted for and processed. Where would the BP oil spill and the PG&E wildfires be accounted for in those statements.

3. The statements avoid the mention of the term consumers, which is how many companies perceive and treat their customers driving the interactions between them to be increasingly banal and scripted. Consider how often in this forum we hear of "selling eyeballs" in advertising.

4. Similar to 3 but more generally, the statements make no mention of accountability in the cases of the spectrum of harm caused by ignorance, negligence, and further along that spectrum all the way to outright malice. The statements try to separate the positive things that human beings are capable of producing from the negative without mentioning the negative at all never mind the ever present probabilities. Failing to mention and own the harm that a corporation can cause makes me think of "rainbows and unicorns", and results in the corporation failing to truly possess genuine humility.

5. I think all the four points I listed above are actually a direct result of this point that I'm about to expand upon: for whatever reasons, corporations try to remove humanness from within and without. By removing the humanness from within, the corporation becomes less sensitive when it does manage to do harm. By removing the humanness outside, they reduce the other human beings they work with into a number of nouns: customers, employees, suppliers, communities, shareholders.

As a point of interest, consider the US Constitution and how it both defines the frame of the US government and the other entities it interacts, but also sets constraints on its behavior.
The most vivid memory I have of myself spending hours on Encarta as a child was with their "flight simulator" / bird's eye view. I will try to find a video of it but I am sure it will be disappointing in today's standards as well.

Best example I could find: https://youtu.be/Dl36Ty2PqMU?t=1147
> I think different

Nice.

> Apple exists because of all the rare events happening early on that where capitalized later.

That's definitely true. I'm not sure if the same early Apple stuff would have happened. But I could see post 90's Apple still happening in some fashion, especially if Jobs was truly able to con(vince) people into giving him funding via the reality distortion field. Jobs would probably have had to work his way up a little slower, but I could see him by the 90's as a kinda cult tech figure, respected enough that he could really work the VC funding circuit.
That was my assumption as well. I can't imagine they'd put the North Korean state broadcasters on the same level as BBC or CBC.
You are stating things bluntly, but you are not wrong. A lot of things that people take for granted as "social goods" are littered with moral hazards, which in many cases, make the cure worse than the poison. It's true of cultural phenomenons as well as private institutions, but it is 10x as applicable to government programs where no opt-out mechanism exists.

The scope of schools, social services, police, etc. in the US are all perfect examples of this. We are now at the point where children from ages 6 and up are doing more work than full-time office workers. My nephew (4th grade in Missouri) leaves for school at 7:45 AM, comes home at 4:00 PM, usually with 2-3 hours of homework a day. And when he does happen to get free-time? Oh, better carry his phone and be with an adult. Frankly, it's total madness, and I'm glad that I am not a child in today's world.

I can't help but feel that this is the result of decades of grand-standing. Every single person wants brownie points for being seen as someone who "supports school". Of course, supporting school never means improving current paradigms, it always translates to "more school days, more supervision, more money, more teachers, more subjects, more more more". New idea, next time someone suggests adding more to a school curriculum, ask them to project the increase in teen suicides. That's a low-blow and an emotional appeal, but that's where things are at right now.
I've been seeing some traffic like this recently as well. We've been getting a lot of traffic this year from addresses that were marked as DoD and Redhat as recently as 1 year ago. It is like a new form of domain name squatting, but using stale ARIN records instead of DNS. Of course, neither CloudFlare nor Google Analytics alerts anyone to this problem, and they just let it pass as if it is normal traffic. I only discovered this after having to ditch Google Analytics and develop an application level firewall to satisfy GDPR requirements.
There are even KSP mods that let you build honest-to-god, as-Clarke-would-have-recognized-them torchships [0] - so if you want to deorbit by burning radial-in, you can certainly try!

You might end up with reentry heating issues, but that's what burning retrograde with your torchship is for. Who cares about making the landscape glow for the next century, we've got fusion!

0: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php
Maybe he meant that original Dice developers who made the game had left.
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I don't see it as quite that simple. I think the difference is that dissent is, to varying extent, suppressed in China. Which can lead to a homogeneity of view that looks suspicious, even when it may not be. I suspect many Chinese who do have sympathy for events in HK would be circumspect expressing that. Just as was the case in former East Germany or Soviet Russia, wearing your views on your sleeve comes with consequences. What I privately think and what I write online may be two very different species, or maybe I avoid certain subjects entirely online.

Many Americans, Brits, HKers and other nationalities usually find people are supportive of some aspects of their country but openly criticise other aspects, sometimes vocally, sometimes by demonstrations. Unless you step over into hate speech and incitement that comes without consequence. Even America, which often seems from the outside to be one of the more blindly patriotic nations, has a good and healthy proportion who will criticise. Then there's us cynical Brit's who, at times, seem to have a majority criticising most things about Britain and reserve pride and flags for very special occasions. :)
> We do not owe it to the world to preserve existing diversity.

How about if we compromise and just stop actively destroying it?

> But diversity is not something to be preserved.

Well, I want it to be preserved. The world becomes a much sadder and less interesting place if we all think and behave the same.
> First, businesses are still required to give maximum benefit to shareholders.

I hear this over and over. What statute demands this?

You are using it this way, but I have many times heard terrible corporate behavior dismissed because they were simply following the law that they must maximize shareholder returns.
I am typed in the 737, I fly the Max. Currently on the 739ER.

Look it may sound arrogant, but the truth is 300+ people are dead and it’s definitely not Boeing’s fault. They had the procedures readily available. They’ve been around since 1967. It is once again, another incident where two foreign crews failed way too many basics.
The representation theory of Kac-Moody algebras. There are some issues with integration theories that need clearing up, should we really be ditching the Riemann integral for the Lebesgue integral so quickly without a closer look. Recently someone wrote a good book on linear algebra that puts of "ugly" determinants for as long as possible. Much of the problem is making what we already know cleaner and better. Some theories like set theory don't have a unique set of axioms and have lots of loose ends. General topology is a closed subject but there are still potentially better ways to formulate convergence.
How do you achieve this? Tensorflow does not support openCL.
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This is a good start, but there are well coordinated manipulation networks for conflicts around the world, that seem to run with impunity, sometimes inciting violence and fomenting hate. Then there are verified account of journalists/commentators and public figures who seem to be paid to Tweet particular narratives. There are other verified accounts that serve as a nexus of hate on Twitter, whose large follower counts give them a patina of invincibility. It’s interesting that Twitter has the will to enforce its rules in some situations, but not in others.
People generally are naive. Many things can be said about that, I recommend reading Leary’s eight-circuit model of consciousness.

Why do people support bad governments? I recommend reading about Havel's greengrocer.

Obviously the Chinese government is capable of doing some things right or it would, as you say, collapse.
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My point is the stuff we already know so well still could use some polishing and everybody should be learning newer and better approaches to classical subjects.
Man what a mess of a project that was.
Per the official press release, Star Theory was formerly known as Uber Entertainment.
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I always used to launch KSP via CKAN [0] so removing the ability to launch independently of Steam would have killed a lot of utility for me. (CKAN is/was the best mod manager for KSP, handling dependency resolution, config options, multiple mod profiles, compatibility checks, and even mod discovery)

0: https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN
Yea I wouldn't take my experience as too dispositive: I gather that my relatively small company punches significantly above their weight in terms of compute needs, and I only have relatively tangential exposure to our interactions with GCP. It's just that those tangential data points have all happened to point in the direction of robust and responsive support.
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As an engineer, instead of preparing and solving algorithm puzzles. I really like this way of recruiting.