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From Wikipedia:

Matthew Richard Stone is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and composer. He is known for co-creating South Park and co-developing the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon with his creative partner Trey Parker.
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Another term in computing/programming for "same code in different environments" is "portable". (e.g. C++ code that compiles/runs on both Linux/Windows). I've not seen 'isomorphic' used in computing outside of JS.
Alright. I didn't know about S4C. I agree that moving things around between different budgets can result in what feels like 'cuts' to the BBC although, normally departments don't consider enlargement to be a cut exactly :)

I had a bit of a rant on HN the other day about this practice in the UK of describing the public sector as being 'cut' when graphs of their budget are going up and to the right. People do it a lot with the NHS and it distorts the political debate, in my mind, because of course people hear the word "cut" and think the amount of available money is going down when it's actually going up.

The loss of the money for the over-75s is a real cut. But so far it hasn't counter-balanced the increase in revenue from general population growth, or at least that's how I interpret the graphs on the page I linked to, which are going up and to the right. Additionally the BBC spends considerably more than it gets in license fee, I assume that's based on commercial revenues as (AFAIK) the BBC doesn't take out loans or get into debt. When those revenues are also considered its expenditure has been growing steadily since 2011.

Tony Hall's argument is basically that Amazon/Netflix can outspend them. Well yeah, but Netflix is a temporary phenomenon given their enormous burn rates and the spending of Amazon/Apple is somewhat calibrated towards matching it. I'm not convinced those levels of spending on content will last forever, myself. But also the BBC is allowed to sell its programs internationally, just like Netflix and Amazon do. It generates significant revenues from that as the graphs show. What stops them competing with these firms, exactly? They play in the same league.

Part of the justification the BBC gives for its existence is that it does not have to simply duplicate what commercial providers do. It feels like they try to argue both sides of the issue: the license fee is good because it frees them from the need to do populist stuff and lets them focus on worthy but expensive programming like documentaries and news, but it's also bad because it means they can't compete (anymore) with commercial outlets on producing populist dramas.

Rather than demand more money, maybe they should consider their focus. Apple/Amazon/Netflix don't attempt to fund worldwide journalism or radio. If the BBC is finding itself faced with better competitors, perhaps it should re-allocate resources towards the stuff it does that's unique.
This is a problem of the model of polymorphism a language has. It's orthogonal to the function/operator distinction. It doesn't arise based on having this distinction or not.

In Haskell you use typeclasses (you can think of them as Go interfaces or Rust traits) and without them you cannot introduce nameclashes. In Scheme (the Lisp that I know)... you don't have anything. You import things from libraries, define variable bindings and depending on the order of all this your variable is going to be bound to something, most likely a procedure... but which one? Depends on the order. Not great. I prefer the Haskell approach to this, but then Haskell is a bit complicated in other areas. :/

But again, this has little to do with "operators vs functions".
Content Operations and the Choice of CMS
Babylon Health labels clinician a 'Twitter troll' over AI chatbot inaccuracy
It's absolutely an energy balance issue.
The Earth is heating up, because it's radiating away less energy than its receiving.
Since 2016, UK laws have not been recorded on vellum anymore [0]

[0]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/12149181/Thousand-year...
What is OU? Oklahoma Univ, could you please clarify.
thanks. I only mentioned composting because that's the only change I know happened since 90s gui engines, so I thought it would have an impact.
Fusion energy and CO2 removal are my bet.

The limitless consumerism isn't as bad if all the products were created with power from green alternatives.
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That already falls apart when the + operator is used for string concatenation so I think the answer is people are using it in a less rigorous sense already.
British are known for building many escape routes e.g.
The road in 1942 as an evacuation route in preparation for a possible Japanese invasion of South India. With a maximum elevation of 2,480 meters (8,140 ft) just south of Vandaravu Peak, it was among the highest roads in India, south of the Himalayas, prior to its closure in 1990
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaikanal%E2%80%93Munnar_Road
Now is okay.

If it again doesn't get attention, wait a few months for the next submission, I'd say.
Is it that anti malaria or HIV drug happens to be effective or are those weak poisons used in the hope that the subject individual outlive the pathogens under its influence
I can see how having git in javascript makes workflows with git in js based tools like webpack and rollup much more convenient to install and share.

I'm having a failure of imagination on the browser side though - anybody got killer use cases running git in the browser?
What exactly could individuals do to stop fossil fuel subsidies? Petitions or writing to politicians doesn't work.

FYI https://www.iisd.org/gsi/
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=e1210
> Sports are just entertainment nowadays

As opposed to when they were military training in Ancient Greece?
Cryptos are the most reliable way of sending money over the internet. Traditional payment processors will sometimes seek to avoid controversy.
It doesn't happen much. Almost all those things you hear about are either campaigns of harassment or incitement to violence.

Sometimes, rarely, it's the police having a discussion to let someone know what the law is in order to prevent that person committing an offence. And even this discussion with potential offenders is probably going to end after the police mishandling of the Henry Miller case: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/miller-v...

How do you feel about US police arresting six year old children for misbehaviour in class? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-51638871/six-y...
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High aerodynamic lift from the tail reduces drag in gliding raptors
Huh. I agree with CGI, but CF certainly had alternatives.
The + here is not a mathematical + per se.
You're conflating privacy with trust. DNSSEC gives you trust, the VPN gives you "last mile" privacy. DoH is only designed for last mile so useless in encrypting the resolver chain between you and the root servers.

Currently there is no way to get a fully encrypted chain (the root servers would need to support DoT or something similar and they don't nor are there any plans for them to do so afaik).

So the best (form a privacy and trust PoV) you can achieve is as I've outlined: VPN together with a DNSSEC resolver (with verification enabled). Over time you can hope for DoT to gain wider adoption so more and more of the upstream resolver chain is encrypted.
I use Firefox on a Macbook as well, also with ublock.

The site is definitely slow at the moment, but enter key worked for me and on the top of the page I see the number of results that were found...
I presume that the alcohol from the wine would not be enough to kill the virus, right?
> Technological DAC is a solved problem that would scale but needs a power source.

If nuclear was as safe as technological DAC is solved we'd all be dead already from radiation ten times over.
The two technical reasons listed by the author:

(1) Cookie prolongation to subdomains as a safety measure (I don't buy the performance issue -- if cookies harm your performance, you misuse them)

(2) Cannot use CNAMEs on @ (the domain itself) in the DNS.

I completely buy (2) because it can make certain setups less flexible. And I don't want to give the NS to some CDN (as it is required (is it?) when using Cloudflare).
Considering the elderly population in Japan is relatively high, this could get ugly very fast....
I have never seen + be used for a non-commutative operation in mathematics. I have seen it used for something which is to-be-proven-to-be-commutative in the next page or so. Similarly, I have only ever seen juxtaposition (like “ab”) used for associative operations, I.e satisfying a(bc) = (ab)c.
Firefox introduced similar functionality in its former Test Pilot program, in 2018.

It now lives on as an extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...

And here's the report: https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/test-pilot-no-more-404...

Basically if you look at the results, they aren't so encouraging, because the archive has results for only ~20% of URLs that aren't found and when it does have results, a majority of the time users tend to dismiss or ignore the notification.

Still, it's a useful extension that I keep installed in my Firefox.

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Adding something natively to the browser isn't a virtue, because the browser maker can have perverse incentives due to the nature of the business. I personally don't understand how some people can trust Brave for ad-blocking (given they are a company whose business model is still the serving of ads) instead of just installing uBlock Origin in their favorite browser, whatever that browser is.

Speaking of uBlock Origin, even if you can install it on Brave right now, given Google is deprecating the underlying API in manifest v3, I don't think Brave will be able to support uBlock Origin for long, in spite of what they've claimed, simply because I don't think they have the capacity to diverge too much from Chromium's code base.

And if you want Tor and such, might as well go for the real thing.

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> One thing I'd really like to see for Brave's mobile browser in the future is the ability to use Chrome extensions - it seems completely strange to me that this hasn't been implemented yet

Well, it's actually rather obvious:

1. Brave is basically leeching on Google's work, they don't have the capacity for actual software development that goes beyond branding and features that serve their own bottom line — speaking of which, if you care about the health of the web, you're not sticking it to Google when using Brave, precisely because it's still Chromium, still contributing to Google's dominance

2. Extensions can go against their own business model and their interests here are actually aligned with Google's (yes Mozilla's interests are aligned with Google as well, but Firefox on Android does support extensions and given their culture and how things have evolved on the desktop as well, at least in this regard I'm pretty sure they'll support extensions for as long as the underlying OS allows it)
I won't complain.
Nice one, great project!

Would love if the URI would change after searching so I can share search result URLs.
Lasseter wasn't the CEO.
Squint a bit and Canada's carbon dividend looks like UBI.

Two birds, one stone.
Do we suffer from JavaScript frameworks fatigue?
If this situation got really bad, what are the chances of this timeline being accelerated? The US has step 1 done now. Could we roll the dice on doing broader human trials immediately and also in parallel scale up production? Sure you might kill people in trials and waste lots of money, but may be better than the alternative of tens of millions dead.
Washing machine manufacturers already focus on the washing part of the appliance without having to think about the complexities of running a water supply system.

It merely remains for IoT device management to achieve the same level of maturity as plumbing. Wait a couple of millennia, we'll get it right.
rebel.
From the government that destroyed all Windrush records, comes another shocking tale of incompetence with malicious undertones.

Laws are written down to make them as permanently-accessible as possible, which acts as defense against capricious rulers. Anything that makes them less permanent is a small blow to the rights of everyday people.
Oh definitely, I am hoping to see serious competitors so that the prices go down. I also wish for an open-source alternative where we can spin it on our own server.

That said, even at these prices, it is quite useful. I think If you need that many writes for cheap, it's probably part of your core product and you can concentrate on building a custom solution for that and take advantage of the rest of the product for the more mundane tasks of your business, like user access management for example.

Besides, If you think about it, 1.3 billion writes are about two writes per every person in USA and EU combined. There are usually a lot of things that you can do to optimize and reduce writes and make each write worthwhile.
I am personally using Isomorphic Git exclusively in my automation scripts (written in Node) where it is about infinity times more convenient than shelling out to Git and parsing its output (something which feels dirty to me even in scenarios where it works, like in VS Code's version control pane which does this), however I know a few folks are looking at online IDEs and various things with P2P - like using WebRTC to mesh up clients and using Git in a truly distributed fashion across this WebRTC mesh. The fact that you can supply your own fs implementation makes these kind of applications really easy.
My wife and I both often have trouble hearing, especially in noisy environments. My hearing level is those environments is much worse than anyone else around. At a bar, I effectively can't understand what anyone is saying unless they're shouting right next to me. With no noise, I have amazing hearing.

I went to Costco with my Wife and we both got our ears checked because they offered free hearing checks. Both of us were told we hear amazing, and were subjected to jokes about our marriage.

We concluded that their only goal was to sell hearing products, and if they couldn't fix the problem, they didn't diagnose it.

I suspect your wife's experience at the "big box store" was the same: Not anything they could fix, so they just sent her away.
Wow, just wow. I knew some people here are climate extremists but this is just sickening. If you hate climate change so much why not talk about the biggest producer of CO2 on the planet? Or is this another case of American exceptionalism?
Such usage may exist, but it should be rare. In the words of Wikipedia, It is conventional to use the plus sign to only denote commutative operations.

For possible alternatives, Perl6 uses ~ for string concatenation (and prefix ~ for stringification). I like it.
Before you get too worried, remember that positive stories about climate change are politically forbidden in most mainstream publications. You're only getting the gloomy side of it.

The harm it will do is still finite and not even really known. Maybe we can just suck it up and suffer the consequences? Do you have an idea of how bad it will really be? Worse than World War II? Worse than communism? Worse than the Spanish Flu? All that stuff happened in the same century and killed close to 10% of the earth's entire population! Yet somehow we're doing great.
AWS has launched the Activate Founders package for Startups
> I would gladly even pay $50 per month for unlimited access to a place to just come in, get my blood sugar, kidney function, heart function, liver function, etc. tested once per month!

I've noticed my gym offers somewhat regular screening days which offer some (or all?) of that stuff, but it still costs extra. Reasonable (~$30?) but it would probably be something used more regularly if it was just part of the membership, and considered a normal thing. I don't even think they offer it monthly - I think it's quarterly.
Qt widget for typeseting equations WebAssembly demo
It is also possible to pass on the flu before experiencing symptoms

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm
The article is very good, but i dislike the word "meta" for this whole notion as it is simple a Nash Equilibrium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium) for some game. Changes of rules makes other equilibria, some equilibria are probabilistic (that makes the game balanced I think) some are just pure strategies (choose this hero if available). I think naming "meta" as "Nash Equilibrium" would popularize game theory more and add some good tools for balancing games.

It is also very interesting that you can sometimes find Equilibrium by researching "counters" or using best response dynamic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_response)

If someone is interested in this topic becuase of esports commitment or just by curiosity there are some nice youtube videos and papers about using
game theory in games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miu3ldl-nY4

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/h...

I don't want to nitpick the word meta, just maybe someone will find more info if he or she knew how to google it properly.

ps I created account specially to write this comment :)
There is reason to think the fatality rate in other Chinese cities is ten times lower than Wuhan. This is not an issue of generically being poor, it's that the authoritarian government knows where their bread gets buttered, and it's on the coast. We don't know what's already happened in the concentration camps in Xinjiang. But I think we share the prediction of what will, as containment of the virus has failed. And it isn't "China being well known for caring about all Chinese equally".

(Also worth noting the single hospital you mentioned has a 50% improvement in capacity (actually much more, because your number is more specific than 'critical care', but I don't know how much more specific) over the city where people are using gutter oil. Capacity can be less when there aren't public defecation concerns, but your example is emphatically not that.)
The FAQ[0] says a small number of reposts is OK.

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

If you want to be even more certain, write a blog post and submit that.

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> The vast majority of people absolutely 100% do not care about their carbon output. They care about their wallets and quality of life.

This. The abject failure of airlines' "pay an extra $XX on your ticket to offset the carbon emissions of your flight" showed that the vast majority of people are virtue-signalling about climate change but not prepared to make any actual changes to their lifestyle for it.

I've had arguments with "green" friends about their use of cars (I haven't owned a car for >10 years - I prefer walking/cycling). They care desperately about the planet, but they care more about not losing the convenience of their personal car.

I notice the emphasis has shifted recently onto regulation of polluting industries, such as oil companies. I think this is in part because of the complete failure to change people's lifestyles. It's easier to regulate 100 large companies than get 1 billion people to accept responsibility for their lifestyle. But it'll be interesting to see what happens when those companies pass the cost of that regulation onto their customers.
Not a list but data analysis tooling is probably a large category of things that need work on. A lot of our customers are deep knowledge experts but not highly computer literate, a lot are good enough with Excel but still struggle with UTC conversion. Large amounts of effort goes into validating the quality of our data by our customers and we look for ways to help but it is a large domain to itself while we are still focusing on making our data better and more accessible. We’re slowly building trust by giving data freely to researchers but validation of our data, handling formats, date time conversions, carefully equating temporally and spatially, etc is still largely manual and significant barrier of entry for some. I’ll keep in mind to build a specific list at some point.
> Since WASM is a virtual ISA protected by a virtual machine, we don't need to rely on external hardware and software checks to ensure safety

famous last words...

> faster than native

if you used a static compiled (and safe) language in-kernel i would assume that would be faster still than wasm or am i missing something...?
> The best thing I can think of then is to lower the temperature of the earth because then the oceans will act as a Co2 buffer sink.

If we had some other levers to cool down the earth, the CO2 in the atmosphere would not be such a big problem.
Driving Life in Cities Forward, One Self-Driving Cruise at a Time
No, I think their issues were mostly due to not having an overarching plan for the series and just letting every director wing it.
I'm pretty sure there's been a few times in the last few years that my wife has called up a doctor on the phone and gotten a prescription for her sinus infection, and then just went to Target and filled it. She didn't have to physically see a doctor. I'm also pretty sure it was a service that her health care provided, so you should ask your health care provider if they have something similar.
> Comparison of different products should be simple

Could you elaborate on this bit please? Do we regulate away all but one way to differentiate a product? How do we decide which one?
> But again, this has little to do with "operators vs functions".

It has to do with it in the sense that you can add package names or namespaces to function names which are already text, but it looks bad to do this with symbolic infix operators like "+"

It would be nice if everything that operates looks exactly the same, but maybe the field of mathematics could start with fixing their notation then instead: mathematics uses a bit of everything you can imagine:

add, subtract, multiply, division, power, root and log are all binary operators and instead of making them all look the same, mathematicians have chosen to:

* infix symbol for add and subtract

* no symbol at all (usually) for multiply

* superscript for power

* horizontal bar and put things on top of each other for division

* another horizontal bar and a superscript on the left for root

* function-name notation with subscript for log

Maybe this is a global optimum that math has converged to because this mix of different things actually is the easiest way for the human brain to read formulas the fastest, e.g. the arbitrary grouping that division creates and the fact that this eliminates the need for some parenthesis, and the easy visual difference between all the different notations, may really help. In some programming languages, if you've got dozens of parenthesis or deeply nested indentation, can you easily tell which argument is to which function?

Or, it's just a historically grown monster that could as well have turned out entirely different and can have other forms that would be faster to interpret.
I think there is a shortcut: use examples (a "domain") rather than starting with theory. learning something purely in the abstract is easy to forget.