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I think it is highly unlikely due to the chinese culture and how they view africans.
There is a very good documentary called empire of dust that gives a good hindsight of the culture clash: https://youtu.be/1a-QpyF7rNc

The cultural mixing thing is a modern western fantasy of the elites, not shared at all by a majority of the world.
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Electronic jamming between Russia and NATO is par for the course in the future
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that their effective tax, as a percentage of their wealth is, much lower than everyone else. Progressives think that a progressive income tax is progressive, because they view taxation through the lens of income, but the primary source of most wealth (not most peoples’ wealth, but most wealth) is derived from property.

Why stop at 20%? Map peoples’ wealth on a normal curve and then look at which parts of the curve pay the bulk of income tax. Saying the top 20% of income earners pay 87% of income taxes says very little, actually, about who, exactly is paying the bulk of income tax relative to wealth. I mean probably most people on hacker news are in the top 20% income earners in the US for crying out loud. Are most of us wealthy? Not relative to how much wealth is out there.
I have automated a nightlight via Alexa. Needless to say, she will not be driving my car anytime soon.
If we start predicting that the 2020's will be the rise of the remote-working 6-hour workday, maybe it will catch even more momentum and finally become true.
I dont know what you mean neoliberal, but i think in this decade we ll realize it was criminal
Of course not. That's silly. But search engines were terrible back then. I remember using the lot of them, and it was hard to find anything. Using Google for the first time was incredible in 1998/1999. It just showed you exactly what you were looking for.
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> In 2030, you'll be able to hug anyone on Earth instantly, and that's something to be optimistic about.

This sounds sad and absurd. Hugging someone in person is a much more visceral experience than via AR/VR.
I don't think I've ever heard that as a definition of "scripting".
Godot Engine was awarded $50,000 in 2019 by Mozilla as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program. Godot also received a MOSS grant of $20,000 in 2016.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-awarded-50000-m...
None. That person had plenty of available advice that he didn't listen to. What he needed was better role models and people to emulate, not advice.
Redux itself is a very simple concept. There is so much boilerplate because the actual library makes very few opinionated decisions. The issue is that people are looking for something comprehensive from what is supposed to be a minimal base library which you can use to build a huge variety of other things.
Windows has been losing mindshare for years. That's why it is finally competing again. Maybe it will recover its super-dominant position but it's more likely to fade out slowly.
> but at this point, it's a marketing decision not an inherent property of electronics.

It's an inherent property of many things that increased complexity tends to mean increased failure rate (or earlier failure).
What's with the anger?

If it's something you don't want to do, don't. There are plenty of people who get a lot of value out of the interactions and maybe part of the "boss's arbitrary stipulation" is that there is value to the company through promoting technologies/etc. at events.

I get that a lot of people are cynical about conferences. And I sometimes am one of them. But a lot of people and organizations find them worthwhile.
If we are allowed to self promote, then I'll put forward my blog http://datagenetics.com/blog.html

There's currently about 360 articles about math, science, programming, data-mining, geekery ... in style similar to a hero of mine, the late Martin Gardner.
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What's to stop companies from just upping their prices to absorb the $1k given to us? We need a real UBI scheme, this policy won't solve anything.
Rust did copy C syntax to a large degree. It didn't copy some of the mistakes such as type declarations, which are hard to parse (typedef makes AST depend on itself) and hard to understand ("array of function pointers" is a head-scratcher in C, easy in Rust).
You’re a nutcase.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/ef8jrh/unity_in_20...

Here's a meme which is actually very illuminating. Someone in the comments mentions checklist-driven development, which seems about right. Unity doesn't feel like a complete product right now, it's full of systems which are either incomplete and badly documented or outdated and buggy.
The Internet had temperately killed technical clubs like HAM radio, wood working shops etc., as people got into coding and could collaborate remotely. Around 2008 lots of Makerspaces started to open, but not nearly enough, the maker movement has stalled though.

We need to rethink the ways schools operate, from 8am-3pm they can be for kids. After 4pm they can be adult learning hubs, maker spaces, DIY bicycle repair shops etc.
Look forward to reading it as it's something I do a lot of. Thanks!
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Oh, I didn't know about this! I've been using the raw library and handling cleanup myself (and understanding when and where I need to do it). It's probably a boon I started on PHP4 which basically had a 1:1 C interface for a lot of things, including manually deallocating variables to save memory and depending on variables passed by reference, so I knew what to expect even if I lacked the experience of the underlying system.

Thanks for pointing it out, I'll take a look at it.

(edit: I am using the fancy renderer in favour of the old surface manipulation; I guess that's a step up, comparing the code)
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As the article says, the trivalent vaccine is a live, albeit weakened, virus and occasionally reverts to the original virus which means it occasionally causes an outbreak. The whole point of phasing it out is to get rid of polio which you cannot do if the vaccine itself is causing outbreaks.
I use Linux and Godot is easy to install and use on Linux, and fits with the open-source philosophy. I have not made professional games, but I had a good enough time playing around with Godot for a few hours here and there that I recommend it when I can.

It also works well with Git, which as a coder first, game creator second, I appreciate. I don't think this is the case with Unity, but I am not sure.
Congrats on shipping! Although I don't have time to play right now, a perusal of your rules has me scratching my head... why allow people to have alt accounts if they can't do anything with them besides level another character? Some of these rules seem really awkward for an mmo eg. having a moderator remove your ability to trade if they don't like the price? Come again?
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Hi,
1. Not a developer so please forgive any tech mistakes;
2. I looked on ahrefs on some of the keywords you mentioned and some more (e.g. "how to query redis with sql") - there are some searches but very limited (I would say up to 300-400/month in the US total). That's not a lot, but I don't know if it's the beginning of a trend or the end of it (devs can say that).
3. Regardless, I understand you do have users (when I say a user I mean retained users). If so, you need to talk to them, understand exactly what problem you are solving them. You can incentivize them with gift-cards or just sweet-talk your way to have a phone call with them; That's the most important thing.
4. Once you are on the call, do everything to understand what problem are you solving them + what they want you to add to the product.
5. That's the process. I did it with a social app in which I texted any user who did a meaningful action. It wasn't fun, but that's the way to do that. Get them to talk to you.
Hope that helps.
No. They pulled all the logic out, converted to truth tables, and generated a flowchart of the entire game. In doing so they uncovered some interesting bugs like unreachable content and incorrect logic expressions. Yes they used a player emulator in the process to verify their work.
What im saying is it cost _only_ 10 billion, meanwhile 10s of billions are regularly spent on things of comparatively trifling consequences.
If most billionaires are optimizing for social image / good will, your idea makes no sense to most of those people.
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Our current cellular data infrastructure isn't nearly reliable enough to allow routine use of remote operated vehicles in public roads. What happens when a construction crew accidently cuts the backhaul fiber and takes out a whole group of base stations? And no, that problem won't be solved by 5G networks or satellite service.
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It should reduce the number of flare-ups of type 2, since everyone would be protected again, but you'd also be back to the situation where anyone could be exposed due a vaccine derived case. The goal is to eradicate the disease completely so that the vaccine doesn't need to be used, since it can trigger cases. Going back to the trivalent (ie going back to distributing the type 2 vaccine widely) would be a step back from that goal, albeit maybe a necessary one.
According to the article, the trivalent vaccine is a live virus and occasionally reverts to a virulent strain. So while the trivalent vaccine can generally stop outbreaks it also paradoxically causes them in a tiny percentage of cases. Using it means you cannot eradicate the virus entirely as the vaccine itself causes new outbreaks.
Each additional unchecked assumption that is added to a theory is another opportunity to be wrong. These probabilities of failure, however small, are compounded with multiplication, so the probability of failure rises exponentially with the number of unchecked assumptions. (10 assumptions each with 95% chance of correctness have only a collective 59% chance of being right— .95^10 = .59).

To maximize the chance of choosing a model which corresponds to reality, we must involve as few unchecked assumptions as possible when deciding between theories that agree with the data; and this matters more than any particular assumption having a relatively high chance of being right, because of this exponential sensitivity.

So if we want theories that are correct, yes, we should value simplicity.
Perhaps it was more like the 30% Apple takes for IAPs instead of the 3% the gateways take?
Business critical/trade/proprietary info is created/stored on desktops/servers. Having the secret sauce spied on is not in the interests of a company.
I have been looking into godot every once in a while when it came up on HN and liked what you could do but was not convinced that I want to use it.

Recently I wanted to write a workout game for the Oculus Quest for my own use and I am really impressed how well VR development works in Godot. I have never made a godot game before and never made a VR game before and it is really progressing nicely. An added benefit is that one of the devs has already added experimental hand tracking support. So even if the big game studios do not support it yet godot games can already support it, which is a real benefit for a workout game where you also have to do pushups (unsing the controller is a bit unwielding there)

For those who are interested what a first game looks in godot

https://github.com/mgschwan/VRWorkout
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Sounds more interesting than driving trucks
GMail has an IMAP-interface. You can use any imap-capable solution, including pythons own imaplib.
Recommending something you bought before is probably a much better bet than showing you random items from their huge catalogue.

You can have a system that generates them a ton of cash while making mistakes in some cases, outliers are inevitable and feedback loops in recommender systems can lead to such issues. Amazon wouldn't deploy these systems if they didn't move the needle.
It doesn't exactly seem to be widely advertised, and a lot of the press coverage is misleading. There was some (rather confused) discussion of this problem on HN a month or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730795 That article, like others, made the horrendously wrong claim that types 2 and 3 of the poliovirus had been eradicated. They hadn't. The original wild versions had, but vaccine-derived versions of them which were every bit as dangeorus as the originals were in increasingly widespread circulation - the only difference, as far as I know, is that we can use genetic testing to trace their lineage back to the vaccine.

The slightly better publications like Ars Technica qualified this by saying that this only applied to wild-type polio viruses and did mention vaccine-derived polio, but they severely downplayed how much of a problem this was for the campaign to eradicate polio.
Before Google was created (and for a few years after) you would have used other search engines/portals.
In my experience, the most common back then were (in no particular order): Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek, Excite, Altavista, Webcrawler.

Also, internet service providers usually provided their own portal, to support less-experienced users.

As a company/site, you depended on - adding yourself - to the lists on these portals to be discovered by customers.

As a user, you depended on the listings on these portals/search engines to discover sites/companies you were interested in.
I have used the odbc drivers for csv previously. I agree with your assessment, never again. They are unforgiving in what they except and not a robust solution at all. I spent months cleaning up edge cases the driver should have been able to handle.
If this happens, I bet police cameras and trackers are still unreliable at convenient times while all the other commodity cameras and trackers work 100% of the time.
Immigration will make both of these things less of an issue. It will create increasing political tensions.
NetGuard is great, but it uses battery about 20% faster with it on (mainly because the cpu cannot enter sleep states long enough iirc)
Yes, I'm a Redux maintainer. My point is that I can't do anything to prevent folks from asking "what state management approach should I use?", looking at NPM trends, reading other tutorials that espouse differing approaches, or jumping back and forth between the React, MobX, and Redux docs sites. All we can do is try to provide as much helpful info in our own docs, and even that assumes that folks even _read_ the Redux docs. I see a lot of people asking "I want to learn $TOOL, what's the best course on Udemy?", and not even looking at the actual docs for $TOOL at all. Doesn't matter how good the docs are if people don't read them :(
He technically has until March of 2020. I still think there’s a chance that he pulls #1 off (SpaceX pulling off human flights in Q1 and re-raises, Airbnb going public as a profitable and defensible business, Uber and rationalization in ridesharing and delivery + continued execution)
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Look at Impossible Burger. Burger King sells them. Try an Impossible Whopper alongside the Beef Whopper. They're making a million pounds of burgers a month, from soy, potatoes, and heme for the meat flavor. Their plant in Oakland is only the size of a supermarket. This isn't an expensive product to make.

When the beef industry's lobbyist in Washington first tried one, he called his people and said, "Guys, we have a problem".
Of course you are right regarding the first century. But when we get to later centuries, say the 18th century, we are as likely to describe it as "the 1700s", in which case, it seems that it should start at 1700, not 1701. And we certainly do that with decades (notwithstanding the hard-to-name last two decades). It is now the 20s. That's a decade.

There are always going to be weird cases. If it is February 10th, and you say "one month from today," what is meant by that? 28 (or 29) days later, March 10? Or 30.4375 days later, plus or minus a day or two?

And then you have days which are 23 or 25 hours long, because of Daylight Savings Time. (see all the potential for ambiguity with the word "day": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day)

I personally think it makes the most sense to think of decades, centuries, and millennia starting when the number rolls over. When you find yourself in ambiguous territory (such as talking about the first century, and in a way it matters whether it is 99 or 100 years long), just take the extra effort to clarify. Most likely this will never come up except for a very small subset of people.
Don't get involved with web development.
I was all gung-ho about automating some things at a job I had but soon found out I couldn't for legal reasons. Even a script to change formats of videos would be seen as tampering by certain legal folks. Sometimes you don't know or can't see the consequences of things you're no privy to.
Well we will soon be approaching a CENTURY without any significant advances in physics or our understanding of the universe...no wonder they are desperate.
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The problem with simply controlling it is that you're asking real people to give their children a vaccine that has a non-zero chance of actually giving them polio. When the disease is already well controlled, who would want to do that? And how would those who do feel if their child does get the disease from the vaccine? There are good non-economic reasons to push for eradication.
As a person who in general dislikes big cars and SUVs (even from the perspective of driving them, it just makes me feel like i am in an APC completely disconnected from the world), if Mercedes managed to pull off the electric Gelandewagen properly, they would make some crazy bank. I know for a fact that i would be drooling all over it, despite my distaste for SUVs.
alliances put some lower bound constraint on the logistic capabilities and density of the civilisations that form them.

strategically speaking and stunning hostile unknowns a stable civilization controls a territory matching reasonable response time from the ready armies at their combat speed and necessarily a requirement for alliances to form is for these zones to overlap

but if they are at such distance it negates one of the prerequisite for the dark forest theory, that civs are sparse enough for the chance of facing hostiles alone is on par with encountering non hostile civs
Strongly dis-disagree. Google's AlphaZero and AlphaGo look awfully fearsome. Generalizing from that to other expert endeavors seems inevitable rather than some sort of mania. Moreover, saying that chess and go aren't benchmark hard problems strikes me as a technical No True Scotsman because they were always seen as that before Alpha obliterated them.
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> Countries will create and promote digital/crypto versions of their fiat currencies

Why? I don't see what would be the benefit of that. Fiat currency already is digital. And - at least where I live - domestic transfers are instant.
Like $13B per aircraft carrier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraf...
Many garbage trucks have only a driver now. The guy in back was replaced by a mechanical arm that grabs and lifts the garbage cans.
Not the parent poster, but no, they didn’t make it up. It’s a well-established conceptual classification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
I totally agree with him that it's awful, but I think the problem is that making things efficient is expensive in terms of time and having to hire expertise. Evidently efficiency just doesn't have enough return on investment for companies to care. The thing about looking back at the windows 95 era and comparing it to now, is that windows 95 needed to be efficient to be usable, windows 10 doesn't.

The exception would be games and embedded software, but even there, there's certain degrees of lazyness. For instance, games are very cpu/memory/gpu efficient, but they're almost always ridiculous when it comes to disk space usage. There's no reason that your average AAA game needs to take up 50GB other than that things which could address that aren't worth the fuss. (I'm thinking common demo-scene tricks like procedural textures/data/everything, aggressive compression schemes, reusing assets, etc.)
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Everyone is so angry. Isn't this the the world of ubiquitous code and unlimited resources we wanted?

Not everything needs to be super efficient. Most things are tuned for production cost and time. Efficient code isn't going anywhere. Relax guys.
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Yeah I agree the argument is mostly about terminology. Anyway you slice it you have a bunch of data and you have a team that's improving the product with the data. That is for sure "table stakes".

And yes I probably should have said "data science" or "statistics" rather than "simple statistics", definitely for Uber and Lyft (less so for smaller companies).

I worked on a data science team 10 years ago when it was called "statistics". I even remember a 2009 NYTimes article that talked about data science without using the word "data science", because it hadn't come into use yet.

If people want to redefine "machine learning" to mean "data science", OK fine. I guess that's what's happening now. The term "data science" already annoyed some people, but I guess now it's "machine learning" and "deep learning".
Sigh, this is so much a case of "I have this nice hammer and I will use it for this screw". Maybe this works ok on simple joins with small CSV, but let's just import the CSV into database temp tables and get the job.
It still has a long way to go for a company with the resources of MS. They are now developing/not-finished-with a color terminal app to catch up with the 80s. There are three layers of control panels.

See the article for a longer list of complaints.
My prediction: Average commute time will increase in proportion to the adoption of self driving vehicles.
If there is a use for crypto here it will be for rich Chinese to evade their government when moving money outside the country as they typically do.

That's the real use of Bitcoin. It's why Bitcoin mining is such a big thing in China. It's "exporting". Made in China, sold outside China - that's exporting, and not only legal, but encouraged and subsidized. Buy a share in a Bitcoin mine in yuan, watch your EUR or USD balance build up in Hong Kong or Switzerland.
Did not have that experience. Altavista and friends were good enough, and for a long time google’s ability to understand natural language searches was nothing more than a gimmick. Most of my discovery came from blogrolls, link sharing and portals. Until the SEO era began and the volume of noise became unbearable...
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Exactly. The benefit of a "stack" involving a simple piece of metal that makes a connection cannot be underestimated.

An offline capable home automation system (including voice recognition) that can be managed by a non-technical person has a huge ongoing cost just in terms of keeping it working as it is, and that is before you change anything (if you can).
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