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Actually quantum entanglement is the reason why solids are solid (fermi statistics) and why lasers are coherent (bose statistics.)

The point of quantum entanglement is that it is not right to plot the wavefunctions for separate electrons (e.g. quarks, photons, ...) but rather you have a wavefunction for all of the electrons at once -- for N electrons the arguments of the wavefunction could be the positions of the N particles (or the momentum)

It's that way all the time, whether people are doing an experiment to demonstrate entanglement or not. The "solid matter" and "laser" effects happen because of the two possible symmetries when you swap two of the particles -- either the wave function stays the same when you swap two particles (photons) or it goes 180 out of phase (electrons)
All 3 stock indexes record high opening. Consumer confidence 20 year high. Enormous USMCA trade deal finally passed by US Congress after the House sat on it for a year.

Reuters just salivating over finding something they can spin as negative about the current economy.
It is a waste of time. Whatever you need to discuss regarding the tasks can be discussed once a week and then once the tasks have been assigned and discussed, trust the team to work at their own pace and time and deliver it by next Monday instead of micromanaging the team every day.
Make sure your room is completely dark. I mean totally. No charger lights, not a blink of light through curtains. Use really thick blankets e.g. to cover the window. You would be surprised how it affects your sleep.
I've worked on a similar topic during my Msc Thesis. It was an application to help evolve parameters of ant colonies using evolutionary computation to render non photorealistic artworks.

Here's a sample of it running:
https://vimeo.com/93903230

Here's the link to he project: https://cdv.dei.uc.pt/photogrowth-ant-painting/
I don't think I've ever seen a confirmed case from any auto maker that unintended acceleration was caused by the vehicle itself rather than improperly installed floor mats or driver error. Before anyone says it, no, the Toyota case from a decade ago was never shown to be legitimate either. I would be pretty surprised if this case was different and it should be straightforward for Tesla to prove via data dumps from the vehicles in question.
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Feller's coin-tossing puzzle: tidy simulation in R
No demand for work is being made here. I'm simply saying a project that isn't a toy project will be criticized if it doesn't behave according to community standards.

I'd consider it to be social norms. It certainly isn't entitlement.
lets parse this out:

"U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years"

becomes

<economic statistic that is rarely cited and no one has cared about before> post biggest drop in more than <arbitrary time frame>"

becomes

<economic statistic taht is rarely cited and no one has cared about before> post <scary descriptor> in more than <arbitrary time frame>"

becomes

"<holy shit live in fear the sky is falling and you should panic>"
Religious people and atheists cannot possibly get along. That is a well-known fact. Never have. Never will.

We look down on godless individuals and we despise them. That is simply a non-negotiable part of our religious beliefs. So, whenever I get to deal with moral advice from the godless vermin, I just repeat the same remark all over again: We do not take lessons in morality from the godless vermin.
I think it is a fine answer, albeit incomplete. Many of those robust projects you mention are supported by contracts which do guarantee some work is being done. If you’d like some guarantees of quality, you are free to negotiate a contract with the maintainers for those guarantees.

Think of MIT’s warranty disclaimer as the “free tier” of service.
> "he should have labeled it as a toy project" and "he should have given reasons why he didn't accept the patch" seem more like fair criticisms than making demands.

Those are demands. The toy project one is relatively low cost, but "he should have given reasons" brings with its lots of effort to do right - and then you get to do it over and over again, because the masses can fling shit at you faster than you can reason about it.
SF may ask voters to approve a vacant storefront tax in March
You're looking for the USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here's the archive.
https://www.bls.gov/bls/news-release/wkyeng.htm

The most recent report for Q4 2019 can be found here https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

Important takeaways:

"Median weekly earnings of the nation's 118.3 million full-time wage and salary workers were
$936 in the fourth quarter of 2019 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. This was 4.0 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with
a gain of 2.0 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the
same period."
Open source maintainers have no such responsibility. Anything you get for free is a gift, and giving a gift doesn't create any ongoing responsibility for the giver. Take it or leave it.
I actually kinda want the stock market to crash although all of my money is in it. At least we'd all stop worrying about when it's gonna crash once it has and move on with our lives :)
> What happens in software is what the market wants.

Sure thing, I'm just emphasizing that it's a more of a social-enterprise-management issue, than a software quality.

> Java was (and is) successful because it was (and is) a very good product with good backing.

Or just because it's Sun/Oracle/baked into android/symbian. Who knows? IMHO it's more of a "nobody was fired for using java" than "java is a good language". It's a language for managers, not for programmers.

> Microsoft, Borland, IBM

MS does pretty well with CLR, for another reason, though. There were no product at the moment which could compete with Java in terms of marketing, money, support etc.

Borland had nothing for serious enterprise, MS had C++ and VB only back then, regarding IBM I don't even know what you mean, Smalltalk?
Yes I do.

I used to lead a volunteer organization. I had many people depending on me for what I provided. Eventually, it became too much and I needed to step down.

A) I could have just left, let the organization collapse on itself, burnt every individual, organization and volunteer that depended on me - and just said, "doesn't matter was a volunteer organization."

B) I could have taken the time to ensure that there is a system in place such that the organization stays afloat, supporting the individuals, organizations, volunteers that are dependent upon it while it finds a new leader.

Either of those choices were mine to make - but I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone called me unprofessional if had picked A.
in my analogy you're the homeless person and the maintainer is the charitable person. in your analogy the homeless person is getting advice from ...?

>People will still criticize you for being a jerk, as is THEIR right.

completely specious. code in a github repo is not active participation in society. the fact that it's public does not mean it's been submitted for evaluation in any way. criticizing a thing that wasn't critically submitted is meaningless. it's like calling my practice sketches inferior to commissioned pieces - no shit that's the point!
Why? I mean, if you're that hostile to collaboration, why not just keep it closed source and maybe try to charge for it?
Nice!

Now, if I can only find a way to stop Comcast from constantly charging me for services that I don't get from them.
My viewpoint is as follows:

1. Just because a thing exists, does not give you the absolute moral right to criticize it, especially in a way that is toxic for the person or persons that created it.

Criticism affects both the people criticized and the community/universe at large, and not always in positive, productive ways.

2. Just because a thing is free, does not grant the thing or its creator absolute immunity from criticism.

Things that exist have an impact on communities or the universe in general, and people are going to be affected. And not always in positive, productive ways.

1 and 2 can both be true, and I think they are both true.

There is a judgment call involved as to when criticism is unfounded, unproductive, a distraction, and/or outright toxic, just as there is a judgement call involved as to when a thing’s existence in its current form is a net negative.

You are not wrong about user entitlement being a problem, as noted by #1, and you are not wrong in a commercial sense about maintainers not owing any one person anything.

But as per #2, I do not believe that is an absolute blanket injunction to never have an opinion about their choices or about the net positive or negative effect of the existence of the thing they maintain in its current form.
I had a friend once who couldn't sleep well because of the things on their mind. Journaling seemed to be the magic bullet for them. They just wrote everything down that was on their mind. And each day they didn't have quite as much to write.
Neither, the PAC. The PAC members consist of employees and stockholders.
This is worse than 9/11
> You publish your code to Github, you're part of a community.

Maybe. The main issue I see with github is that it's impossible to disable pull requests there. We have that issue in the coreboot project, which uses github as a read-only mirror.

Maybe we should just shut that down to make clear that coreboot is not part of the "GitHub community".
I can't help but think that companies like basecamp or tile, largely brought about this situation to themselves. Neither google nor apple should be platforms to be dependent on. They should be used as startup platforms, get some momentum and then actively seek to build their own outreach to customers independently. Putting all your money in someone else's bag for years and expecting them not to steal some , is borderline delusional. Rent seeking is a spontaneous behavior of big platforms. HN orthodoxy will suggest otherwise, but i think everyone who depends on corporate owned platforms should start pulling away as soon as they have momentum. Citing the lack of alternatives is a self-fulfilling prophecy: if nobody tries to find an alternative pathway , there just won't be one
Detect with what? We've had radio signals for about a century or so and our signals have barely made out of the solar system at which point it's just background noise.
We just barely can detect planets and only in optimal conditions. Our tech for all extra terrestrial purposes is laughably primitive.
MAGA!
> I stopped using it the moment one of their CEOs altered someone's comments during the election and was not asked to step down. That CEO is still there.

That was not a CEO but a founder, AIUI. Can't really fire them or ask them to step down, they literally own the place.
I'm a bit green on infrastructure & deployment but I don't quite get this. If your ML algorithm code is still Python how does deployment with Go make that much difference? It sounds like you're not replacing the Python ML code so why is this such a big deal?
I speak at conferences so that I can say I speak at conferences so that I can earn more so that I can afford to pay for my kids to go to university. Does that make me a dick?
That works other way too. The Media baron running for President influencing the framing of standard bureaucratic changes.

We only see, what we want to see!
That is absolutely not what the second amendment currently stands for, nor is it what it stood for before 2008.

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/nra-guns-sec...
My favorite joke about MtG:

"The magic is the gathering"

a draft is such a good env to just hang out, and we'd usually end up with a ringer or two, so it was a good way to socialize.

I've waned a bit because I didn't like the state of the meta, but have been itching to get back in for the social aspects alone.

Traded MtG for CS:GO mostly these days, but wanting to get more face to face time, even though I've been surprised about how much a consistent CS:GO group has felt like community.
Yes, tipping culture is alive and well in Canada. A common misconception among foreigners is that the existence of universal healthcare means Canada also shares the economic structures of Scandinavian countries. It doesn't. Canada's economy is structured similarly to the US, but much more dependent on natural resources.

The service sector is actually considered to be a low-cost offshoring center for American businesses, due to lower median salaries, and a weak Canadian dollar.
> 1. YOU are responsible for your dependencies.

This is an understatement.

I work in regulated environments where a software error has consequences. Dependencies must be vetted. If we end up relying on a dependency with known vulnerabilities the auditors are going to want to know what we did to mitigate the risk of this out-come. You need to have an answer for that question.

I recommend packaging your upstream dependencies. That way you can patch vulnerabilities you find and ship those fixes today before those patches make it up stream. That's a risk mitigation strategy and often good enough to fend off auditors.

Many (all?) open source licenses provide the software without any warranty or guarantee of merchantability or fitness for use. None. At all.
Depends on how you define web. IOT should be done in low level languages. but yeah I agree that a REST server is better of in something like GO, C#, or JAVA.
> We aren't meant to live that way.

I agree we are not meant to be hermits, but having work be your only social interaction is also not a way to live. I would argue that having work be strictly professional is both more healthy and better for dealing with people at work.
A coworker told me he thinks as long as people think it might crash it won’t crash.
I did this for a long time. I had random looking recurring meetings on my calendar called things like "Backlog Grooming" and "JIRA Ticket XYZ-1923". It cut down on the bullshit meetings for a while, but people eventually figured it out and scheduled on top of it. It also did nothing to stop the people who just walk up and demand attention.
> What about volunteer charity workers? Is it OK for them to just not show up whenever, just because they aren’t paid?

I have some friends whose profession is running charities (i.e. they actually get paid). Volunteers not showing up is exactly what happens, all the time. And my friends expect it, plan for it, because the volunteer is not getting paid to be there. Without that tangible incentive, a volunteer time competes for all the other intangibles competing for time (e.g. "I'm tired", "the kids need something", "friends are going to do something fun at the same time"). They build it into planning: some percent of the people who signed up aren't going to show up...if the weather bad, a bigger percent aren't going to show up. And so on.

They don't get all ranty or judgmental about it, they're just smart enough accept that reality and to plan for that eventuality. Just like anyone using an open source project without paying for it should be.
If someone poorly implements something, potential causes harm in doing so, doesn't accept that they have done so poorly and express a desire to learn and improve in future endeavors, it isn't even necessarily incorrect to express that they may not want to pursue that particular field anymore. Of course it should be done tactfully which I doubt most of the comments on Reddit did. I see this same sentiment expressed fairly often on HN in usually but not always more polite terms.
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> In this particular cooperative, if we’re successful, the members are every .org registrant, which means 10 million members. We’d need to get five million and one of them to agree, to change the articles.

Okay, so... what is their plan to get these five million .org registrants to “agree”?

The article seems to be entirely fluff.
The initial back and forth isn't the issue, it was reasonably civil, if putting a bit of resistance to fixing the issue. The problem was the escalation which happened when it got posted to reddit, where the suddenly things got a whole lot more virtiolic and most of the vitriol was coming from those not involved in the original discussion at all. A similar thing tends to happen with systemd issues, for example (generally in that case they close the original issue to stop more comments and make a new issue or move discussion to a different platform, but still this will spill over into making new issues, PRs, etc). This behaviour is basically worthless to harmful whenever it happens, because it doesn't further the discussion in any way and just causes headaches for maintainers.
If the Democrats win the election this year, I think Google and Facebook both stand serious chances of looking at antitrust cases.

Google is in the most dire situation. They own search, own the browser and phone walled gardens that bring you there, own all the ads, knee-kick ad blocking attempts, have started taking over content (AMP), have a surveillance panopticon, control standards and neuter challenges to them (HTML5 is less semantic than XHTML), have surveillance devices in the home, embrace-extend-extinguish entire product spaces, kill products people rely on, don't offer support ...

Google has its hands in too many pies, actively hurts other industries, and they're creepy af.

Facebook might have less of a case against it, but they routinely flaunt Democratic lawmakers, shape public opinion in bad ways, and buy out the competition. Not a strong case, but I think it would be argued from a social good perspective.

Apple and Microsoft seem safe. I have no idea about Amazon, since they have competition in all their markets.
English is spoken with such a wide variety of accents that you can just about get away with using random vowels sounds and still be understood.
Or the same way cosmetics are science backed.

Backed by a single simple study with too small a sample size and little or no control group, paid for by the group currently making the claim (a group who may have commissioned several other studies but didn't have them published because the results were not as complimentary to their cause).
Oh, there is plenty of drama on /r/cpp/.
You can criticise but you are not allowed to COMPLAIN. That is my view.
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I love Rust and use it daily.

Unsafe isn’t something you live without, you just avoid unless there’s a decent reason. Setting aside actix-web, the community has this really annoying obsession with not using unsafe anywhere. You’re not replacing decades of computing overnight, though, and it’s not the end of the world if it’s there sometimes.

It often feels like newcomers and zealots preaching the unsafe issue, too. I have to wonder if the Rust docs couldn’t better point out “the goal is less unsafes, but unsafes will exist - this is fine”. I know it kind of explains this already, but perhaps being more blunt?

Actix-web even with a few unsafe is still more sound than most frameworks IMO. I’ll take slightly better with crazy good performance over not better at all with no guarantees.

Also, look, the other problem is Reddit: I’m starting to think larger projects should squat their name there and redirect to better discussion places. I comment on Reddit sometimes and I roll my eyes every time I’ve done it lately.

End rant, I guess.
So are you saying that the drop is US job openings isn't newsworthy on it's own?
Actually most of us would welcome a "better C", it was just obvious from the outset rust wasn't it. Rust with unsafe - as dangerous as C in the hands of a amateur, as comprehensible as poorly written machine code.
A good starting point is learning how the sleep cycle is regulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland#Function
They are doing the design and engineering work of the craft itself, as a separate thing from the batteries. I think a big assumption on the part of a lot of these is that the battery Wh/kg and Wh/litre ratio will dramatically improve in the future, and they'll be able to take those new batteries from their manufacturers and integrate it into their ready-to-go aircraft.

Lots of other mechanical and airframe engineering work to do in the meantime while waiting for better batteries. Software/automation controls related to operating in busy air space. Stuff like the tilt rotor mechanism, avionics and radio systems, automated navigation, soundproofing, seats and interior, airframe carbon fiber layup, etc. They can create a finished and highly tested craft with all of the engineering problems solved for various subsystems except the batteries.

I don't see any problem with designing something that currently only has 20 minutes of flight time with a battery that is X watt-hours capacity, N size, Y dimensions and Z weight.

An aircraft manufacturer as we know it today doesn't manufacture a lot of the very complex and most costly subsystems of their craft. Best example would be small jet turbines, or petrol powered engines. They rely on engine manufacturing specialists for that. My theory is that it's unlikely a VTOL-air-taxi-manufacturer will become so vertically integrated that it manufactures its own special batteries. Similar to how a small business jet manufacturer today buys turbofan engines from engine-manufacturing-specialists, they'll be buying batteries from companies dedicated to the sole purpose of manufacturing high Wh/kg aircraft batteries.

Provided that the new magical future battery can be similarly cooled and managed and will fit into the available specifications of "X times 5 watt hours", N, Y and Z, they can do all of the R&D except for the battery, and hope that the market and technology catch up with them to create a 80 minute flight time craft.
I think it's worth pointing out that this is about an article and a Reddit discussion posted literally yesterday. A fork might already have been on the way. Maybe someone was working in a private repo. It's clearly a worse solution than fixing the original so even assuming someone was willing to maintain a fork, it's not surprising that they wouldn't do so at the first sign of trouble.

If you do look at comments by safety-focused developers from earlier actix drama, you'll see that quite a few simply use a different project. The answer might be that actix doesn't provide enough value compared to alternatives to be worth forking for those people. The people aggressively attacking actix might not even be interested in the project for their own use, but merely there for the outrage.
Not a fair comparison. Go has go install.
You got me there.

My connotation of armchair psychology is more informal and doesn't match the more rigorous, APA definition.

I'll make one note: the psychological profile I wrote of, is based on first-hand experience, as well as pieces of mental notes recovered from internet-addiction and FBI profiling papers.
I had the idea the other to day to start a list of hackable cybernetic devices. I'm thinking things like the sub-vocalization we saw earlier in the week, the latest brain activity scanners (MEG, fMRI, EEG), brain stimulation stuff (tDCS), anything that could let you interact with a computer in subtle and more integrated ways than a keyboard/mouse.

Does anyone know of a similar list already started?
> Try to think of my argument another way: I feel a certain way about this, and I would like to rationalize that feeling.

Don't. This is fundamentally a "type error". Rationality can tell you how to achieve what you consider important, but ultimately it can't tell you what to want.

(Notice that mainstream economics has already abdicated this; it talks of "rational" actors with "preferences", but the preferences are assumed to exist a priori and not to evolve in response to information)