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You have to be a bit careful here, though. If you think that "policy and regulatory reform" means international agreements limiting greenhouse gases are the way to go, unfortunately I am afraid you are in for a really long wait. On the other hand, policies that push for new technologies, then kind of yes, but then it is more difficult to distinguish which one, the policies or technologies are the more important source of leverage (personally I do no think that it is even a feasible comparison).

For example, "everyone" is laughing at Germany's super Energiewende that it is a expensive failure that has not managed to reduce Germany's dependence for coal at all. But then, if you have a look when Germany has built solar, it's share of the global new capacity at that time and compare that tho the learning curve and price development of solar, it is a bit difficult to conclude anything but Germany's policies have pretty much singlehandedly brought solar from laughably expensive novelty to something that actually can be competitive in certain markets. Then China continued from there, and now we are extremely close (if not already over) a tipping point where solar just keeps getting cheaper subsidized or not.
It is not your humble opinion. Sports are just entertainment nowadays. Lowest priority.
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TCP-over-DNS, together with the draft RFC for encrypted resolver to authoritative communication, altolows for more end-to-end style encryption. Clients could do their own secure resolving without relying on a central service.
When was the last time a new UWP app made the news (except that development on it was stopped). Nearly all apps are written for Electron now, and that sits on top of Win32 ;)
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Now I'm curious.
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You are absolutely right, it is not all bleak out there of course. Most people also use a lot of open source software without realizing as well, to give another example. I merely wanted to express how delighted I was when I clicked on this particular HN link, which did stand out as remarkably bullshit-free at least for me.
VCVrack does look like some seriously cool software, thanks for the link.

"Finally, eurorack has nothing to say about computer architecture,in the context of digital computers. It's an analog computer."

That kind of is what it says about architecture. Analog vs digital.

When I'm hooking up a clock on my synth I can't help but think of a system clock on a CPU. A digital computer computes an integral using a series of discrete-time operations on binary representations of floating points. My synth computes integrals using an op-amp and and RC circuit applied to a voltage source, and sometimes calls them "filters".

So I have these sorts of thoughts in the back of my head, different mental pictures of how the system is doing the math.

Plus other thoughts-- what is the purpose of the "computer". Kraftwerk "I am the operator of my pocket calculator" viewing a calculator's primary function as a musical instrument...

Isn't that saying something about computer architecture?

I/O differences.

etc.

Just fun to contemplate
Orange page: drop the comma after "products".

In general, juggle things a bit to avoid hyphenating so many words (use variable width paragraphs, maybe?)
Not sure I’d lump Malaysia in with this lot but otherwise I agree. No cases on Indonesia? No chance
How can they have all the warnings they needed if China didn't give them the right info from the start ? That 27 days incubation period got a lot of people infected and becoming carriers. It's like, China had a relatively well defined outbreak center while other countries started with a wide spread invisible web of carriers.
OK so I did a few tests with FB, using an existing account data and managed to change status without getting banned. Will continue testing as it would be a very convenient way to post status updates without having to actually use FB.
Go for a clicky mechanical keyboard (e.g. blue switches), now you can finally click all you want without distracting anybody (but yourself :D).
Every single login asks for TOTP, and sessions expire very quickly. Even the mobile app asks every time, even if you use some saved/authorized login method like fingerprint login.

For someone who uses PayPal for most online payments this can be extremely tedious.
Same impression when returning in Japan at the beginning of month after a stay in Taiwan. In Taiwan something like 99% of people outside in bigs cities were wearing masks. In Japan only the usual 20%.

However, things are starting to change? At least my lab cancelled a conference we planned to organize (call for paper deadline next month, and conference itself in August).
Spreading out the venues means spreading out the transmission. You'll have 20000 people flying from country A to watch a match in country B, then they'll get on another plane together and fly to country C then some will go back home while others fly to country D for the knockouts. A single sick person and it could suddenly be a Europe wide epidemic.

Throw in the drinking, the hugging and the tears that these occasions create and it's almost the perfect recipe to spread a virus.

A lot could change by June though.
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This is precisely the reason: a doctor’s interpretation as well as the liability that comes with it.

Good luck on reading an EKG graph yourself. It is apparently not even easy for a trained doctor to discern what exactly is going on.

Source: I worked on a long term ECG holter monitor sold by GE.
I live in the Ohio Valley area and the biggest problem we run into is seasonal allergies. That doesn't sound so bad as its just a stuffy nose at first, however after a couple of weeks it turns into a nasty sinus infection. Getting an antibiotic through a traditional Dr. can take many days (or even weeks). Going to the "after-care" is inconvenient and can take hours.

If I could pop into WalMart when I feel this coming on, I would do it in a heartbeat! Especially if it meant that I didn't have to do all the insurance stuff. Even better if the whole visit costs the same as my insurance co-pay ($30)!
Sounds like you've got the politico speak nailed already
Bit late for that now.
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It doesn't have to be _everyone_ - I've played many an online FPS where I really appreciated that _one_ player for the meta battle going on between us whilst the rest of the game unfolded around us.

I really play games for those moments where you communicate with a player/players _on the other team_ through the meta. And then you dance around the strategies trying to set/catch each other offguard.

And you _know_ when you're playing against someone that gets it. And you can tell certain players apart, or classify their level of meta-ability by they way they're playing.

Sometimes in chess, you're embroiled in a really intense battle in one area of the board, but the game is developing on some other level and is primed for a swift turn, and knowing your opponent is aware of that same notion is really beautiful.

A great, quick and easy card/boardgame for revealing this kind of meta (but it's kinda one dimensional when you "get it") is "The Mind".

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/mind

It's great for giving people a taste of the thrill of meta.
The significance of the 2020 Olympic games cannot be overstated. All of Japan has been preparing for this for far more than a decade. Just look at stuff from early 2010s regarding topic such as 8K TV and 5G networks. They have been working towards this singular event where Tokyo will be center at the world stage. It would be tragic (but understandable) to see it cancelled. I hope they can do it a year later instead or something like that.
Even better than developing smaller cars would be to reduce meat intake. AFAIK that's the single biggest improvement a single person can make to their CO2 footprint. And it's not that hard to pull off - just tax meat more heavily. I'm not sure the party who passes such a law would get reelected though.
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Short + sweet, thanks
We can. However that would fundamentally shift the economy off fossil fuels which is one of the largest lobbying groups in Washington and specifically the GOP.
How would you compare your WiFi products to alternatives like the ESP32?

I see that your dev kits are more expensive than pure ESP-based boards but aside from Argon (which is an ESP32 with an extra processor), it's unclear why. Photon, P0 and P1 all have an STM32F205 which is much less powerful than an ESP32 yet the P0, which is a raw module, is more expensive than the retail price for an ESP32-PICO-KIT, which is a full dev board. The Cypress chip doesn't look to be anything special either.

Is there something I'm missing?
What a strange way to say "I agree".
AWS does the same thing. I believe all the cloud providers offer custom arrangements once you’re big enough.
I'm not sure what you are refering to as "these techniques" - are you referring to full formal specification with dependent types?

If so, then I think the answer so far is: even though few senior SEs could write correct implementations of that algorithm, there are definitely many more than the number of people who can write non-trivial software with complex dependent types in a decent amount of time.

Of course, you can write code in Idris or Agda and be productive, but not if you want to do stuff like actually proving that your sort function produces a sorted permutation of original list and other similar somewhat rich tight bounds.

The more you want to express in your types, the more complex your program becomes. A very nice example is how you would implement matrix multiplication in regular ways (with matrices of numbers) versus how much more work you need to add if you want to track physical quantities (with proper support for different physical quantities for each value in the matrix). It's easy to say {{1, 2}, {3, 4}} can be multiplied by {{5, 6}, {7, 8}}, but much harder to say if {{1m, 2kg}, {3N, 4Pa}} can be multiplied by {{5m, 6N}, {7Pa, 4kg}}.
And as a end-user and a potential customer, I see it as a mugger mugging another mugger. IoT isn't added to appliances to make anyone's lives easier; it's added to a) make the product look more "hot", b) create data streams that can be sold to marketers, and c) facilitate planned obsolescence - because while even today, a properly cared-for appliance can last a decade, adding IoT into the mix significantly shortens the time to replace.
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> Very limited with TLS. With webhosts, the PTR record means little.

TLS+SNI sends the `Host` you are connecting to in plain text. eSNI is not yet widely deployed.

Centralizing DNS without centralizing HTTP (e.g. domain fronting) does not solve the leak of connection metadata.
Interesting point. This might also explain why Lisp never really went mainstream.
What's the meaning of the term in the dev community?
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The third option is that people you think should be infected are not infected.
Because that’s what the numbers published say:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

Look at the mortality by age table.

Also note the mortality rate outside of Wuhan seems to be 0.7%, a bit more than the common flu which I think is around 0.1% but not really a massive deal.

I don’t know where these numbers will land ultimately but I can think of many reasons why people with mild symptoms that are similar to a cold wouldn’t want to show up in a hospital full of infected people, or would think they just have a cold, so I would expect the denominator of the mortality rare in Wuhan to be understated.

For the moment the panic this thing is creating, fuelled by medias eager to make some money by crying wolf, looks like the real threat to me. Lots of people will loose their job as a result of the economic impact of the panic.
Great link, answered all my questions – thank you!
I agree that exact rates are difficult to determine, will change over time and one should not overreact, but there is plenty of evidence for what I said. If this virus would be just like flu, then Wuhan wouldn't have much problem coping.
And diseases like this must have been forming and quickly dying off throughout history. It wasn't until the advent of globalization and intercontinental travel that they've become pandemics.
Without operator we’d still be MOVing and ADDing
Unrelated, but I think this is the first time I've seen Mailman with actual CSS applied to it…
20% per annum is 1 transfer every 5 years.

I just had a job change after 6 years and was constantly asked why I stayed so long.
I agree with you. Original ones were super novel in technical/fantasy aspects and I get whey they became topics of such obsession by many during releases, but as stories and cinematic quality go, they are on the level of cartoons for 5 year olds with some heavy inconsistencies which are hard to ignore for adults. Some parts like ewoks I literally have to suffer through. No wonder many actors weren't proud of their participation.

Proof - older gens consider them eternal classics, most of the young these days couldn't care less. Give them some true classics like Spartacus or Orson Welles and they are more intrigued.

All that bashing said, I love them all, even the crappiest prequels, but then again I love tons of sci-fi and fantasy.
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We are currently creating a startup that lets users upload or copy and paste a text/document, which then will be run in our website. After the text has been run the user can ask questions against the data. The question answer feature of the site uses natural language processing and other tools to answer the users' questions. User can delete the data that was ran if they are finished with it. We are currently focusing the site as using AI technologies. The basic functionality of the user is he/she uploads document and asks questions against the document. Currently there are no login/logout, history, etc. functionalities.

We are having difficulty choosing a name/domain for this website. The names we have come up with are FastReader, ReadAsk, ReadandAsk, TextReader. Can anyone tell us which name is better? Or we need to come up with a new name? Can anyone advice us on choosing name for our domain/name if it is not from one of those above. Can anyone tell us the pros and cons of each name from above and if it sounds ok?
Why yes; cities / counties in Italy are on lockdown, a hotel in Tenerife is quarantined, the biggest mobile conference, Mobile World Conference in Barcelona was cancelled (a move which will affect the sector for months / years), etc.

I'm not sure if you just haven't heard of these things or if you're intentionally ignoring them to make a point.
A site doing research on privacy asking me to store cookies ?

Something doesn't feel right.
It's an isomorphism in the category of Sets.
Reducing the use of disposable plastics isn't supposed to prevent climate change, it's about reducing the amount of trash. While any trash that you put in the bin in a western country is highly unlikely to end up in the world's oceans, it still sends a signal against ubiquitous single-use products. That the two are so often treated as one is really unfortunate. Because if people actually cared about reducing their individual carbon emissions, they'd have to give up things like flying and eating meat, not disposable plastics. But that involves actual changes in behaviour, so it's not exactly popular and many people find the mere suggestion offensive.
This is a disease with a high spread rate, medium fatality rate. That's far more of a public threat than low spread rate, high fatality rate. Spread rate is far more relevant than death rate, and to top it off someone can be spreading it for weeks with no symptoms.
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> those same authoritarian governments are the ones who played down the threat, lied, covered up to save face, imprisoned whistle-blowers, and refused to let international experts in.

I'm scared that it will become a lot worse than that. The pandemic gives them a real-life stress test and lessons to harden the surveillance state and further improve technical controls and tweak the technology to become more effective. It's another step on the road to integrating and normalizing intrusive and outrageous ideas for government to retain control. (-> both in China and the West!)

From the videos I watched from Chinese pigs (aka LE) in uniforms beating old people not wearing a mask and welding the doors shut of giant apartment blocks where people live like ants (or slaves), I tell myself this will not happen in the West. Then I look at our current research and Europe's own ambition to create a central biometrics database (along with tweets from the UK LE which ask you to report anything people see online that may look like terror and all I think is "STASI!" neighborhood watch. These days I see a uniform and my first reaction is disgust mixed with fear, the sort of claustrophobic feeling normally only Orwell brings up in me.

I get that quarantine laws (locking people in their homes, issuing a curfew, rations etc) can be harsh but important to combat a deadly problem. But looking at the authorities in charge in the West I wouldn't trust them for a second and think it's also a play with fire. There are lots of edge-cases everywhere for this to be a massive human rights violation (elderly care facilities, prisons, migrants, the homeless, and more power to the rigged justice systems and corrupt EU institutions and generally everyone already wielding lots of power)

The CDC and WHO have utterly failed. Why are there no hand-outs of free face-masks and other PPE - oh because there are no stocks! - instead the problem is downplayed (by both WHO and the dear leaders). Why is there no transparency (constant news) about how many people an individual country is testing? Oh because we don't have adequate testing right now. Instead medical professionals were arguing on France24 yesterday whether the game between Juventus/Lyon should go ahead and they felt that they're not qualified to make a statement on a complex subject like this. Instead Italy and other countries are reminding us not to press the panic button just yet and media should be "more responsible in their reporting".
exactly correct - compared to our situation where we have to get ~5% of it done in ~30 years, we're in trouble.
> COVID-19 has a 21+ day incubation period

[citation needed]
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I tried to run it in RN year ago with no luck, filled an issue [1]. Looks like they removed Buffer dependency in 1.0 which was one of the problems.

[1] https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/issues/698

edit: fix link
"Mathematics for Human Flourishing" [1] is a beautiful, inspiring book on deeply human perspective on mathematics.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Human-Flourishing-Francis...
Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"? I'm not the one to say whether your argument is otherwise correct, but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point.

Chances are people just roll their eyes and scroll on to the next comment before they even finish the sentence.
Counterpoint: Java.

Java was designed during a time when operator overloading was considered abysmal language design.

But that was mostly due to the experiences collected with C++ (or maybe also Perl?).
> Refreshing to hear this from someone working in climate tech.

Someone in climate tech supporting forcing their tech onto consumers is refreshing? Seems absolutely normal.

People in climate tech are more about fundamentalist morality than improving the world through actual advances.
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I mean if so called wonder materials like Graphene can actually be harnessed to make new generation ultra cheap solar cells may be something might happen.

What we need actually is a Global Manhattan project which focuses on something like the 100 most promising approaches and builds and tests prototypes. This should be funded both by Govts. and the rich individuals. I think sharing of intellectual property can do a lot of good in solving the Carbon free energy conundrum and then getting it cheap enough for everything else. My guess is that a project like this can deliver solution(s) 10-20 years before free market will.
If you did it explicitly, I think there are no heuristics.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614751
instead of actually useful features like dict deconstruction
I've now given up on Brave on Windows because in the recent times, it has been crashing too many times (with less than 20 tabs open in total). Firefox, on the other hand, has been handling hundreds of tabs across several windows.
> It's a tropical region disease

Europe and the U.S. used to have Malaria. The name -- bad air -- is Latin, the Romans thought it originated from bad swamp air. Shakespeare mentioned it time and time again in his plays.
given the importance of football (economic but mainly bc public entertainment #1) i expect it to take place
* in empty stadiums
* players and staff are waived to travel even when quarantine in place

but mostly bc the virus should hopefully succumb to warm weather as the cup is in summertime
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I don't know why Google and Cloudflare provide this service and I don't really care, because it's irrelevant.

DoH is first of all a protocol. If you run your own DNS resolver at home, surely you'll be able to run your own DoH server too.

Also your requests will no longer be sent in clear text, which means that a Wifi administrator at your local coffee shop won't be able to see your queries and responses, which with the regular DNS protocol are in cleartext, in which case your home DNS server does not help — unless you're on your own network in full control of your router, or run your own VPN, communications with your home DNS resolver are just as vulnerable.

The value of something like DoH is clear, regardless of the motivation that Cloudflare and Google have for providing such a service for free.

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Speaking of which, accessing pirated content is not the only case I worry about — another problem I have with my ISP is that they serve me a 404 Not Found page filled with ads on domains that aren't available. This is in an EU country.

Also back when HTTPS wasn't forced on Google, the searches were logged and people were automatically flagged for problematic queries and then potentially monitored for years. One of the topics that triggered automatic flagging was child sexual abuse — I know because I helped a local campaign, building an awareness website, etc, only to be informed of such practices by an acquaintance working for our internal security agency.

And while today this may happen for legitimate reasons, tomorrow it might happen for people criticizing the government. Look no further than countries like Turkey or Hungary.

Personally, coming from communism, I fear the nanny state more than I fear big companies from other countries.
Are there resources like this for Calculus/Prob/Stats?