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The Awards site is pretty nice to navigate:

https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?action...

Out of curiosity, I looked at the older years, like 2013. Maybe it's just my confirmation bias (I believe/hope that, as online dataviz matures, it trends towards simplicity and scalable patterns) but the older shortlisted entries seemed more bespoke (in a convoluted way) and more infographic-ish, i.e. less useful than the 2019 shortlist entries:

https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?action...
Apple often straight up breaks the implementations of public APIs leaving developers scrambling to fix them. See modals in iOS 13, or title bar styling.

I work at a development agency and on both macOS and iOS every release is a race to figure out which breaking changes have been sprung by Apple (including crashes caused by silent changes in behavior of existing APIs, people have had apps rejected for breaking on pre-general release OS versions when we didn't even have the tools to test them yet)
The idea that the developing world will benefit from cheap oil is ridiculous.

The developing world is the one suffering from the impacts of global warming. Several countries in Africa are suffering from wars worsened by climate change driven migrations. Countries like India have a mix of cities running out of water, cities flooded by water and cities drowning in pollution which is almost certainly gonna erase years of people's lives eliminating any improvements caused by better medicine.

Cheap oil, or expensive oil, are both bad for developing countries. It's literally not possible to give the hundreds of millions of people in developing countries a better future with fossil fuel driven growth.

All our thinking and planning has to start from that basic fact.
You can use DAI (https://makerdao.com/en/) or BUSD (https://www.binance.com/en/lending, 2.5% interest anually) which are tied to the USD value.
Statistics can actually be taught in an elegant, "pure" and enlightening manner without cramming formulas and rules of thumb.

I had some lectures of the rules-of-thumb type and nothing stuck for me. It was all jumping across different approximations, implicit assumptions, "use this formula if 5<n<30 and this other one if n>=30", the whole thing felt very ad hoc.

Bayesian formulations and the general didactic style of machine learning texts did the trick for me. By understanding the Bayesian approach, I can see through the frequentist style much better, things don't seem nearly as scary as before.

People treat statistics as some dark art, when its principles are actually quite simple and the applied techniques can be derived nicely by making your assumptions explicit and knowing exactly where and by how much you're approximating and why. You need to go through some simple proofs of how distributions, e.g. Poisson and binomial become normal in the limit.

Maybe different people are different, but for me learning things at a shallow level is quite difficult. It rather works like I either understand it or I'm just memorizing for a test with a very confused and scrambled mental model. The point of "getting it" or grokking it is often quite sudden, not a linear progression through understanding it. If I stop in the middle, I may be able to reproduce the content of a course convincingly, by knowing what I'm supposed to say and regurgitating facts, but not really being convinced of it deep inside.
Thanks. Will do (work permitting!).

FWIW, a while back I reimplemented and tinkered a bit with the Sabour et al. version too... and did not see much promise in it.

Note that the routing algorithm I've proposed generalizes to vectors (by setting the dimension of the covector space d_cov to 1).
Then I'm curious how do they enforce it. Maybe with US there are some treaties signed, but what about a foreign country that has no treaties with the EU?
How is that different from any other job? Unless they support remote work, which most don't, is it not discrimination for a job to only consider people who are willing to move to city X or country Y?
Doesn't Apple go to great lengths to reduce their tax burden?
"Nobody here has a problem with Chinese people in general"

The link this whole discussion is about is about banning Chinese people. Not the government, not even people that work for the government, just "Chinese people in general"
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Docbook is an “ok” filter to acquire competent tech-doc-folk who are capable of both content improvements (prose), and asset delivery (books). It’s also a well-known check-box for good programmer-typographers.
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Oh sorry, it was half of the people who don't agree with her.

What she was doing was clearly trying to paint any idiot who would vote for trump as racist, xxist, "deplorable" people -- just as I said.
This is also exactly correct. The actual reason is that fossil fuels are highly subsidized in most developing countries, so the only impact this has is in reducing the subsidies paid by the government exchequer.
> radio waves can provide electrodeless water splitting and physicists don't care

Probably they don't care, because as soon as that water is split, it is ignited and burned again, so you can't have any hydrogen, you have just changed some rf energy into heat, losing some energy into heat in rf setup... It's easier to just heat something directly with elecrticity. Now if someone invented a way for oxygen and hydrogen split that way to remain split for more than milliseconds, physicists would be more interested.
You can, but it would be a lot more powerful if you did it in writing in the form of a properly formatted DSAR request.
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Hi, new here.
I use emacs for 95% of my uptime.
I've created a lot of little programs in bash, python and PHP.
Also admin an imageboard, my personal website that i update via SSH, have running some telegram bots that i edited a lot. Actually i'm working in a FFMPEG automatizer un bash.

I don't know if you can do that, maybe yes, sure yes and a lot of more things. The thing, anyway is that i'm an almost lawyer (working, but without degree yet) with absolutely no academic preparation in tech. Just internet, manpages, and intuition.

If your intention are just code to have work and pay debts while obey someone, sure CS degree is useful... but if you want code to resolv things that you actually needs, no, not in all: systematize all the knowledge in an scholar scheme just would be a lost hacking-time.

In the other hand, i havent much work as lawyer, lol, whatever.
Primary sources can be amazing, but a lot of them aren't written with the general public in mind: they can be a slog to get through.

As an example for a trustworthy primary source I really like the youtube channel for the dutch safety investigation board. They are a primary source as they do their own research, but the videos they produce are mostly designed to inform politicians of the result of their research. This means they are made in plain language and are easy to consume. I can heartily recommend having a look at their channel.[0] There's plenty of videos that have an english version, mostly for internationally relevant topics.

Of course it is a state sponsored source, but as far as I can tell they have no political lean, and the only input the state has as far as I can tell is to task them with what to research. Everyone should do their own evaluation on their trustworthiness of course.

Other than that I haven't found many primary sources that I actually enjoy so if anyone has any suggestions for primary sources or ways to discover good primary sources that'd be greatly appreciated.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8YTCQ5-kR3aqaUwyUk1Sig/vid...
I wrote another comment arguing that this proposal was both racist and discriminatory, which got flagged and deleted without explanation, presumably because I worded it in such a way as to give an example that might resonate more with Americans by using examples of specific groups of people that have experienced oppression in the US. In the interests of quality discussion on HN, I'm going to make another attempt but in a way which is hopefully less likely to be misinterpreted.

There are employment laws which prevent companies from discriminating against people based on factors such as race, sexual orientation, religion, physical appearance, age, marital status, and other things over which they either have no control or which are not relevant to their job. These laws are in place for good reason and most people (myself included) support them.

It is my belief that a company policy prohibiting the hiring of people based on any of the above attributes would be wrong, and probably illegal (depending on the jurisdiction).

The question then comes down to whether refusing to hire someone based on either their nationality or the country in which they live (in the case of a remote company) is wrong in the same sense as the above factors. My argument is yes. The fact that someone lives in China or Russia does not, by itself, make them an untrustworthy person, any more than someone living in the United States, Germany, Japan, or the UK.

At the request of several customers, GitLab is proposing a policy which discriminates against people based on their naionality/country of residence, which I would argue is almost (if not equally) as bad as discrimination based on the other factors I've mentioned, and should be opposed for the same reasons as a policy which prohibited hires who were of a particular race or sexual orientation.

If anyone wants to flag this comment, you are of course free to do so. But I would much prefer, and I think we could all benefit from, a coherent discussion of the flaws in my argument.
TeX was written in the 70's ;-) The main reason for using TeX is if you want to typeset a document that will be "photo-ready" for a print publication. Quite frequently it is for typesetting scientific papers (which is why it is popular with academics).

Like I said, TeX is a typesetting language. It is literally a programming language that takes typesetting programs (including the data) and outputs an exact photo-ready output. It's very easy to convert the photo-ready output to a PDF, or a PNG, or GIF, SVG, etc. Because TeX is a programming language, you can write macros (there are no functions in TeX). These macros work on input you give it. In the old, old days, someone would create a set of macros for typesetting documents for each of the major journals and publications you might want to publish to. Eventually, a guy name Leslie Lamport wrote a whole set of really good macros called LaTeX that would allow you to write documents in a consistent way for a whole bunch of different types of publications. That way you could minimally change the document and resubmit it to a different publisher.

So why do people still you TeX? There are two main reasons: First because there is still a need for very high quality print output. TeX is special in that it has perfect algorithms for doing things like line breaking, kerning, etc, etc, etc. The output of TeX is dramatically better than just about any other piece of software. It's insanely better than any word processor will output and there are probably only a handful of desktop publishing packages that are even close. If you need absolutely perfect print output, then TeX (and LaTeX) are a really good fit.

The other reason for using LaTeX (not so much TeX, because typesetting documents in TeX is almost insane: I used to do it for fun, but I have never, ever in my career met another person who has done this) is for typesetting mathematics. The LaTeX macros for math are extremely convenient and the pictorial output from TeX are perfect. This allows you to typeset your mathematics in LaTeX, generate a picture and then paste that picture into an HTML document, or Word document, or whatever.

There is one notable file format that is built on top of TeX that also is meant for digital use: Texinfo. This is the original documentation format for GNU. You can write hyperlink documents in Texinfo and it will generate TeX output for high quality print documents, and HTML (as well as a few other formats). It is very limited in its features, though and the HTML output is so-so, IMHO.

There are a couple of other document formatting systems that output TeX as well (and in fact, I'm pretty sure there is one that will allow you to build some rudimentary TeX documents with docbook), but I'll let you look for those if you are interested.
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Are we? I’ve seen a reasonable discussion so far on policy and ethics. There will always be trolls.

I never said anyone was completely superior. But in this specific case.. we are, because American citizens (and their families) don’t disappear for criticizing their government or for refusing to spy on other countries.
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How tied? How much do you trust the company doing the backing? If you want to be tied, why not just track the dollar directly?
That wouldn't matter. These companies would still have real data for actual people. And it's not easy to create tons of fake accounts for services like Coinbase because they have strict identity verification. Any account that doesn't complete it obviously isn't really a real account.
The proton is so small that its finite size only shows up in a few purpose-built experiments such as the one explained in the article. Since the effect is very small, measuring it to high precision is extremely difficult.

It is also worth noting that protons are much more complicated particles than muons and their theoretical description is much less well developed.
Assuming you aren’t native Chinese or don’t have lots of friends in China, you don’t seem to understand what the parent said about nationalism rises. No China’s nationalism WAS NOT this high before, (the parade etc) you saw before is organized and it’s actually quite small considering the scale of China. Common people were normally cynical and only act patriotic at occasions where they really have to. Things are freaking different now with certified news from the US regarding trade war and the fact Trump can’t win the trade war. Normal people this time really become nationalist
This would make for a good Michael Lewis book.
so where is the paper ?
Coming from someone who spent years in hospitality this is 100% the right answer. I’ve since moved onto technology gigs but it’s very common to prove yourself in a much lower tiered position and move on.

Start at McDonald’s, move to Panera and receive a nice Quality of life bump, then move onto something even more stable and rewarding like Trader Joe’s or Costco.

The other side of this is those that are very capable but very deficient in other areas, they started working at Waffle House since they don’t fit into normal society as one would think of it and happen to land there. Since the barrier to break into these jobs is nonexistent they do find a “home” and lack the ability to ever grow or move on, for better or worse.
It’s actually the opposite problem at the moment. Far more women are pursuing college degrees than men. Men have been in this declining trend, they dropout more, get less grants, scholarships, ...etc.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-me...
Yeah, I was picturing the chaos if the UBER app suddenly stopped working all of a sudden.
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I don’t assume that loans are given away to everybody without qualification and I’m unclear where you got that idea from my text.

There are other differences in zero down payment situations. Having (or wanting) to sell the house in a few years makes it more likely the seller will need to bring cash to closing (as the lack of down payment makes it likely that the sales proceeds after commission won’t cover the loan balance). This can “trap” people in their home, desiring to sell to improve their life in some other way but forced to choose between doing that with the 7 year short-sale black mark on their credit report or staying put.

This same phenomenon makes a zero down loan more risky to the note holder, making it more likely that the effective interest rate will be higher.
Two points: First, the very act of requesting your data is in a way confirming and verifying the accuracy of the data.

Second: Every prescription you've ever filled with insurance - and even some without - is recorded by companies like Milliman.[0] When you want to buy life insurance, health insurance, etc. they can request to see what medications you're on, have been on, etc.

[0]. https://clark.com/insurance/how-to-see-your-secret-health-cr...
Depends "national security" is much more than defence industries back when I worked BT the team leaders on some projects where getting positively vetted for SC clearance - That's top secret in US terms.

Arguably now the FANGS are now CNI - which is going to suck if your on a H1B or Green Card.
> The growth will slow down and stop in decade or two.

I heard exact same statement a decade or two ago.
> is there truth to the statement "female physicists face more career obstacles than their male colleagues" ?

Since you did your PhD with many women, why not ask them?
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I think it's naive to think that humans will leave any oil in the ground despite climate change and any changes we enact to counteract it. We should work from an assumption that all the oil in the ground is going to be dug up and burned. It's too much money for some of these countries to ignore - the article mentions Guyana, a poor country that now has a way to print money. It also mentiones Venezuela, the country with the most oil reserves and the country's desperate need for cash.
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Probably has to do with Trust. Managers by definition exert some power in other people in a way that engineers do not, so they need to be trusted and build trust within a hierarchy. That's a social function so they think it's best done face-to-face. I 'm pretty sure it can be replaced with an social network though, we know it can be done since it works for social networks in general.
Bitcoin is worth what someone will pay for it. While printing tethers is lame, I don’t really see how it’s different from a central bank printing trillions of USD to prop up bonds, housing, etc. other than it’s the antithesis of what Bitcoin is supposed to be.

If tether was truly under attack it would trade for under $1 against trusted stablecoins like USDC, but it hasn’t yet. This has happened before, but it isn’t today.

Crypto traders simply don’t care, they appreciate USDT because it’s sketchy. Something that is more regulated would make them less likely to use it.
Well, there are certainly some traditional obstacles - like taking time off to give birth, or changing your name after marriage messing up your publication/citation counts.

Deciding whether the female-only awards you mention are sufficient to compensate for such obstacles is an inherently apples-to-oranges comparison.
I think everyone knows someone who bought bitcoin in 2017. Hardly a single person.
To the degree that it can be established as a symptom of a bigger problem, demographic measurements based on particular identities and gender are good to have but shouldn’t be taken as some kind of political proof or validation - it’s just measurements and data is good to know.
Journalism is valuable, and it is a publication's decision to decide on how to pay for that journalistic work.

I'm not ok with copying and pasting paywalled news articles verbatim on HN.
Seems Intel is run by an MBA too, with zero engineering experience. Maybe it was he who fired all the senior engineers since their products were mature.
"research". As with all things crypto, by no means there is an expert or authority that you can actually trust.
Nobody blames anyone here. The point is that anyone who lives (or has family) in a dictatorship can be easily blackmailed by its own state, with no legal recourse.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066

https://whartonliquidity.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/is_bitc...
>female physicists face more career obstacles than their male colleagues

> There are all sorts of female-only or female-first awards, funding, prizes, scientist networks

hm...so you benefited from visibility for mediocrity, implicitly admitting undeserved visibility, yet claim obstacles. How does this compute?

edit: I either misread or OP got edited, silly me.
That with the IDE's autocomplete covers most of my needs.
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So cheap oil and expensive are both bad, but "just right" oil is fine?

I'd love for some of these people to go to these countries and tell these people to do without electricity and fuel for their transportation and generators.
I expect Uber to care a lot about privacy. They’ve burned themselves badly before disrespecting privacy and I assume they’ve improved in that area immensely. Uber’s and their employees’ own interests are aligned with strong data privacy.

The same cannot be said for the government.
“I don’t really care that these data analytics companies know I made a return to Victoria’s Secret in 2009, or that I had chicken kebabs delivered to my apartment“

People really should care. There is so much data about us being sold without our knowledge. A while ago there was a discussion here that your full salary history is available to be bought.

All this stuff is super creepy and you may increasingly be outnegotiated or rejected by companies that you don’t know that they have your info and that you don’t know that info even exists. For example I find it scandalous that Airbnb messages or order histories are being passed on. That’s just not ok.
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...because of the PRC.

This whole discussion is because of the PRC, and having ties to family members living under the PRC.
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BitCoin was mentioned at nearly every party at the end of 2017. Google Trends showed massive growth in the search term. Many unsophisticated investors poured money in solely based on past performance.

It was not a single whale. It had all the hallmarks of bubble like tulip mania or Internet stocks in 1999.
Clickbait title. The subtitle is probably more accurate:

"The series of $1,000 days that brought BTC to a record above $19,600 could have been the work of one entity"

I'm very skeptical. It is certainly possible that a single entity may have encouraged the rally. But there is no way that a single entity actually moved the markets this much. The amount of cash required would be significant.

During this time, there were shops in Korean cities advertising cryptocurrency sales in their store windows. This was not entirely the work of a single whale.
Not only that, but so much "consumer data" is probabilistic - they believe it's you who's doing something, but it could have been your ex logging into Pinterest on your phone one time, which then linked across her other devices and now "your data" is actually leaking her private data from the rest of her life.
She was asking if it was true, discrediting it.
It was not in physics and she admits it was helpful to have a few extra prizes in her CV, but i don't know about obstacles, she's a star anyway