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Do you think, in the future, programmers will be mathematicians in the same way that the blacksmiths of centuries ago are now chemical and material engineers in steel plants?

Do you think this is the Bronze Age of artisinal craft, poised to be replaced by the dawn of brutally precise mechanized Haskell?
What I’ve Learned by Teaching Others Programming
Same question here -- I bought a kindle DX when it first came out and was surprised that the line petered out and never continued to the higher contrast light-up models. What a shame.
Democrats want to drop Joe Biden for Andrew Cuomo, poll finds
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Is it bad for the economic market and current company earnings to be disjoint? I'm not an economist and perhaps I'm reading too much into the ".. again" but it sounds like you find this very bad and I don't know enough about macroeconomics to know why this is bad.
> but to privilege that style as "real" (or "proper", as you have it) requires considerable justification as yet not provided

It's arguably the largest consistent body of work in the entire Star Trek franchise, the one that was the peak of its popularity, the one that fleshed out the universe and is most recognizable. Also somewhat unique compared to other science fiction, which I can't say about post-ENT installations.

> Was First Contact therefore less "real"?

Nah, I consider it real because - besides mostly staying thematically and stylistically consistent - in terms of storyline, it critiqued the "ethically more evolved" humanity; it shown shades of gray of an otherwise mostly white object, instead of making it black with occasional lighter tones, like post-ENT installments do. It's the same defense I'd give DS9. It's still the same utopian world, the same beacon of hope - just not a perfect utopia.

(Also: throughout TNG/DS9 and the movies, the Federation did feel like an actual character in the movies. ENT was leading up to it, and it portrayed humanity growing up towards the TNG-era utopia. This aspect seems completely missing from Discovery/Picard; both the Federation and Starfleet seem to exist there just to have a flag and an icon to slap on things.)

Unlike JJ movies, I'm not considering DIS and Picard as completely bad. I've noticed and appreciated the point about Picard brought up in his eponymous series, as much as I appreciated the concerns of Klingons in DIS - their point about Federation being a cultural threat to them would fit perfectly fit TNG-era Trek, and add further depth to their race. And I tried to be fair to both DIS and Picard, to watch them without biasing myself against them - but they really don't fit the whole in my eyes. They stand out as something totally different in almost every way.

> But the Trek fandom has ever qualified their shows as especially worthy not for the quality of their visuals, but for that of their ideas. From that perspective, a lot of TNG, and of its era more generally, struggles today.

I've been rewatching TNG (and DS9) quite recently, and the way I feel, it's the concerns that aged, not the ideas. I.e. TNG (and DS9) cover themes that were the concern of society of the 80s and 90s, which seem less relevant today, but I don't feel like the way of thinking of the characters has aged badly.
So, is this to say we approach the irreducible best with induction?
I used it to "crack" the calibration menu of a 20 year old spectrum analyzer made by a defunct company, allowing me to resuscitate the instrument, saving myself about $2000 in equipment costs and a bunch of environmental waste.

And then I did it a couple more times for other people.

So evil. I should be ashamed of myself!
Maybe an updated version of Firefox has the feature to remove the nag?
What makes this worse is that it isn't even necessary.

Allowing companies (even ones that are large and considered important like airlines) to "fail" just means that they'd have to go through bankruptcy proceedings and that the owners would lose some money - it doesn't mean that their operations will shutter, or that the planes will suddenly disappear, or that everyone in those companies will suddenly be out of work.

There are many examples of how this works - a recent one being PG&E in California, who filed for bankruptcy last year. Our electricity is still running and the linemen are still working.
Businesses are planning to survive and open back up in a few months. They’ll hire back employees at that time, though probably not as fast as they dropped them.

I’m expecting something that looks more like a Nike swoosh than a V.
These seem to be F/A-18A/B models so just regular hornets. Which also tracks with their acquisition since the RAAF is selling off and replacing their aging A/B hornet fleet (the US has already retired theirs, except for the Blue Angels). That said I agree with everything else you said, just wanted to point that detail out.
You don't, you have kits to do most things for you. That's the beauty of it: you can reuse the entire web community assets.

And when there are no existing widgets, crafting one is way, way easier than with QT. Especially with break points.
Hey Dave, I'm currently building a sound management app in electron right now.
I used the electron react boilerplate on github. Can you tell me what advantage using todesktop would bring ?

Thanks !

Github profile : http://github.com/Igosuki
This is exactly what I tweeted about last month. Great news! https://twitter.com/dbrophy/status/1241434641250299905
But you can read it outside.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Got Impersonated in Bitcoin Scam
X11 is network aware, in that is theoretically possible to speak the protocol over a network. However, anyone considering it should be aware that it is (1) extremely chatty, (2) extremely synchronous, and (3) extremely latency sensitive. It only works well on fast local networks. SSH certainly doesn't make it any faster.

In contrast, RDP and VNC type protocols are screen-replicating designs more suited to higher latency connections.

Finally, if you're using RDP, I'd suggest Remmina as an client. It's fantastic.
What precedent? Virtually all heavy weaponry is sourced from private companies. The last DoD contract Don Kirlin was involved with was worth $6.4B.
I think it all depends on how your function is used in the end:

- if all you're doing is using the value with an added "?" for error handling, like "a = sqrt(b)?;" then Ok-wrapping is perfect, I love it.

- if you need to "match(check_credentials(user, pass)) {Privileges...}" then simply put, don't Ok-wrap and declare your function as usual.

Ok-wrapping sounds really good but shouldn't be used everywhere, like you still use "match" instead of "if let" sometimes. It'd be sad if this idea was aborted just because it's not universal.
COVID19: EU Data Protection Supervisor welcomes Apple+Google joint initiative
The Death of Hype: What's Next for Scala
Dyalog and kx are hiring
There's been some discussion that wages haven't actually been flat at all, just take home earnings. The difference is theorized to have been siphoned off by rapidly increasing health insurance premiums [1].

[1] http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/health-care-costs-under-job-...
I am tempted to think of crises like these to be the economic equivalent of a forest fire. It makes way for new vegetation to grow and is part of the normal cycle of many forests.
I agree those are examples of maintaining (often racist) power systems. But what you're providing aren't examples of gun rights, they're examples of gun control initiatives -- which are the opposite of gun rights.

This extends beyond such obvious examples as the Mulford Act (California's foray into gun control, banning open carry in response to armed protest by Black Panthers). Gun control often focuses on removing access to arms by any poor and disenfranchised groups. So called "Saturday night special" legislation seeks to ban cheap guns, with disproportionate impact in disadvantaged communities.

Access to arms has historically been a key element of people maintaining their freedom from government abuse. Your examples of gun control indeed do undermine this freedom.

The history of gun control in the US is deeply tainted by racist motivations.
I wanted this for some time, an eink coding experience for outdoor use and good battery life. Do you know of any active projects online where people have got this working?
Great suggestion! I could use this with requestFrame()!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasCaptu...

I think I will make this change because the ffmpeg legality seems hairy. Thank you!
Further deep links to the technical side:

https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu... Cryptographic Specification

https://www.blog.google/documents/55/Android_Contact_Tracing... Android API
Flexible funding allows one to keep the proceeds even if the goal is not met in the allotted time. Kickstarter offers only an all-or-nothing payout for projects (unless something changed the last time I checked).
You can do that by using a JSONB column in postgres (including indexes), and that way you can upgrade to typed columns at yout leisure (and on a per-column basis).

Personally, having inherited a database that wqs absolutely chock full of bad data due to the lack of schema, I'd be very reluctant to go that route unless I really needed to.
That's not the whole calculation. For one, big corps are much more tolerant of the social distancing rules. Small businesses are getting crushed, but publicly-traded corps are just asking people to WFH. The stock market is all big corps. I think the other big factor is that this recession is 100% exogenous in nature. There is no major correction or uncertainty about the long-term viability of any industries. So long as big companies can dip into cash reserves and stimulus funds, they just need to weather the next 6 months and it's likely that we can return to business as usual. This is completely different from the financial meltdown of 2007 or the dotcom bubble of 2001 where entire verticals of industry were called into question and underwent sea changes in culture.
I am hoping that Apple being involved will keep this as privacy respecting as it reasonably can be given what it is doing.

I am generally someone that takes privacy very seriously, I mostly avoid Google products and others for this reason.

But... this may be a time that the privacy concerns are worth loosening a bit for the good of this. But that comes with the caveat that I hope this is disabled when this is all done, and preferably the code removed completely. I trust Apple to do this, not sure if I would trust google too.
If I look at people buying the other zoom I cant help but think the stocks might have little relation with reality.

Or put comically: I'm sure all video games are seeing a surge in players with people in self-quarantine.
It just takes one erroneous logging call in the wrong place and all this niceness goes away. Hopefully we don't get a headline in the future of "Bug found with contact tracing app, we actually had access to everything but we're sorry and we'll fix it". Not entirely against this work, it will provide benefit but let's hope for the best.
'I'm Sorry I Can't Kiss You'–-Coronavirus Victims Are Dying Alone
I am using H264, but I'm now considering other options!
Demystifying Tokenisation
(minor side-note, since it's repeated: it's Qt. small "t".)
I'm not sure what you mean by "alone" here. New York is by far the worst hit area of the US; many states are doing no worse than Denmark or Austria, which are going to start opening up next week.
Hey HN! One of the creators of Braid here.

We started Braid internally in the pre-Slack days (we were using HipChat then), because we felt that "chatrooms" didn't promote good async team workflows. They would lead to a lot of FOMO and constant checking, because if you didn't participate in a conversation at the right time, the topic in a channel would have moved on to something else. We liked the async nature of email more, but, email has it's own baggage.

Our team has been using Braid internally for several years and we're very happy with it. But, compared to Slack, it's best thought of as a prototype / experiment / UI-proof-of-concept, because we don't have the polish and maturity of features that Slack has.

We've had interest from some individuals who "get it", but it's often been hard for those individuals to convert the rest of their teams. If any team here is interested in the Braid concept and wants to give it a serious go, I'm at your disposal, and I'd love to get your feedback so we can keep morphing the product.

The use of "hashtags" in our demos is a bit overdone compared to what happens in practice. It makes it seem like twitter #hastags, but, it's really more like Gmail labels. Braid tags serve the same purpose as Slack's channels, except a given thread can exist in multiple channels (ie. go to multiple teams / individuals) and tags can be added over time (ie. more people can be invited to the conversation).
Best I can tell, the stock market is trying to look mid-term and investors are assuming (read speculating) that his whole thing will blow over and life will resume its normal cadence.

Obviously this isn't reality but if you have enough money to be considered an "investor", the 16 million unemployed aren't the people in the forefront of your mind. They're also probably watching the covid task force briefings while wearing the same rose colored glasses that our mango unchained has.
Oh man, a big Thank You. I kind of know where I'll be spending 10-12 hours in the next few days.
Seems like the negative effects on companies could be longer than 6 months.
They mention “certain distance” which I suspect is 3-4 feet at best but frankly even 6 feet probably isn’t enough for people singing loudly in a confined environment for a long period of time.
Additional Research: “Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1” https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

— Research found that SARS-CoV-2 was detectable in quantities large enough to be infectious in aerosols for up to 3 hours, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel.
There Is No Plan to Return to Normalcy in 2020
Your feelings are valid, and understandable for a piece of software which is so intimately integrated into your daily life. However, allowing those feelings to influence the way you discuss this software seems unwise, especially if you intend to convince the software's developers to change their minds about it. When people feel that core parts of their identity are being attacked, they tend to shut down and stop listening. Developers of complex software like a web browser, who have dedicated large parts of their professional lives to the nitty-gritty details of its creation, surely feel as emotionally attached to it as you do, and they are likely to perceive an attack on it as an attack on themselves. If the impact of this change is so great, then you have a responsibility to present your criticism of it in such a way as to maximize the likelihood of it being received and accepted.
X11 works remote, but to my knowledge only to start new applications.

Connect to an existing session and just "continue where you were" is not easy though there might be unmaintained solutions.

If you use ssh forwarding and for some reason gets disconnected, the application dies.

I'd love for you to tell me I'm wrong :-)

The way rdp works on windows is the only thing where I think windows is superior.

Vnc, TeamViewer and similar are not remotely close and they will leave your remote screen open for anyone to see.
"Introduction to Cybernetics" W. Ross Ashby

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

> ... still the only real textbook on cybernetics (and, one might add, system theory). It explains the basic principles with concrete examples, elementary mathematics and exercises for the reader. It does not require any mathematics beyond the basic high school level. Although simple, the book formulates principles at a high level of abstraction.
I was just reacting to my post with a legitimate question being severely downvoted. And I do think a question about whether something is useful is a legitimate question, whether the answer is yes or no. Some people must be offended, based on being downvoted -- but who knows when there's 1000s of users. You can't waste your time being offended on the internet by random signal-to-noise.

It's boring to meta-debate the quality of discussion / people's voting on a story or comment, so I won't pursue it much more here. But if something doesn't have a known practical value then let's talk about what its value is, or could be. Don't just vote someone down because you're offended that your pursuit / hobby was questioned.

This feels like its a "street car mods", "CPU overclocking", or even "distance running" kind of hobby. Part ego, part technical, part seeing how far you can push something. Sometimes these things have use (to you, or others), sometimes not.
Or highly leveraged short-selling. Institutional insiders with an information and speed advantage drive bids to test the strength of selling. Highly leveraged positions can only tolerate small losses before they have to stop out. If that is a widespread market position you get these weird market movements in the opposite direction to what makes sense, because closing out of a big short position while the price is going up, just drives the market higher and higher.
Kids can learn how to build bridges out of legos and erector sets before they learn math and (intro to?) materials science and a host of other things. But we don't let them be civil engineers until they learn the basics of these things. It's entirely possible to learn about and "play with" something without the things that are considered prerequisites for being a professional at it.
Looks like it was inspired by the TraceTogether app built by the Singapore Government and recently Opensourced.

https://www.gov.sg/article/help-speed-up-contact-tracing-wit...

https://github.com/OpenTrace-community
The source that wikipedia cites says the following:

"However, research on DRACOs has entered the well-known “Valley of Death” in which a lack of funding prevents DRACOs, and many other promising new drugs, from being developed and advancing toward human medical trials. To progress DRACOs research it needs to be demonstrated against clinically relevant viruses (i.e; HSV). To that end an IndieGoGo campaign (http://igg.me/at/EndTheVirus) was started on October 13, 2015."

They don't seem to elaborate on what the hell they mean by the valley of death.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb13018147.htm
First results of the Corona study in Heinsberg
It encourages risk taking towards the extremes. To make it concrete:

- If you go to the casino with your own money, rational people will gamble what they can afford to lose.

- If you go to the casino but are told that whatever you lose, someone else will cover your losses, how much will a rational person gamble?
I've noticed this trend in companies with Indian middle managers who tend to aggressively pursue hiring outsourcing firms (like Accenture) to bring in offshore Indian resources, and the project inevitably fails.

Every time I've seen this, the decisions to hire the outsourcing firm never really made sense, so the easiest guess to make is the managers were receiving some kind of kickback, but we can only guess.
Relational DBs for everything that needs joins.
MongoDB is horrible with that and should not be used.
One would not put an off-road vehicle on a race track and expect it to win.

I use MongoDB for everything where I don't know the data structure before hand.
MongoDB is very good in indexing unknown data structures and makes them searchable.
Also, when I build prototypes I often use MongoDB.
If you want to drop your ferritin levels, lower your iron (if that is safe for you). The body has no way of dropping iron levels apart from chelation. So, drinking/eating foods that act as natural chelators (ie. black tea) will help. Or, if you're feeling particularly generous, give blood.

(not a doctor, just someone who has hemochromatosis.)
thanks for the input! should be fixed now.
> would allow more individuals to participate, if they choose to opt in

I don't see how this can work unless it gets very high distribution. I wonder if local governments might do something where the shelter-in-place orders are lifted for some categories of people conditional on running the app?
Parsec for Linux is only a client; you can't share a Linux desktop using Parsec.
The proposal is to intentionally apply a live virus to people, so absolutely there are bureaucratic barriers to this (and for good reason). There is no a priori reason why this should have less red tape than a dead virus.

If we're just going to ignore any regulations and bureaucracy for a live virus (like this proposes), we can do the same for a dead virus.
Google and Apple are now doing a version of this: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/10/apple-and-google-are-launc...
Thank you for the feedback.

I picked Chinese technology because they are rarely promoted but really great.

Regarding the CLI tools it's a great question and I have opened a ticket for a future issue: https://gitlab.com/bloom42/open_source_weekly/-/issues/14
It's a pro and con type of thing. For example you can go out and hire a former Soviet MIG driver and get him to drive the the Hornet just like he say taught the Iranians to drive their MIGs (limiting the performance of the Hornet to match that of the older aircraft, etc).

For the military to directly hire a foreign national who served in a different military is a ton of paperwork. It's much easier to have the contractor do it.

There obviously is a security risk, but as long as you compartmentalize the risk it's okay. It's also the issue of keeping said Soviet MIG driver busy, in that maybe you have 6 months of work for him a year. Other six months of the year he can't exactly hang around the Pentagon and help with reports since as you mention, it's a security risk. The contractor can keep him working by say doing 6 months a year of training with the American military, 3 months of training with the Canadians, 2 months with the Swedish, etc.

There are proven models for minimizing risk. The intel agencies often like to hire foreign nations because they have local expertise with regard to their home country, but the CIA can't exactly just make a Chinese national a W-2 employee and let them run around Langley.
> Looks like it was inspired by the TraceTogether app built by the Singapore Government and recently Opensourced.

Not really. This is based on the TCN approaches by Covid-Watch, Co-Epi and DP-3T (submission to PEPP-PT). TraceTogether fundamentally functions very differently.
That’s what’s telling about so many companies buying back their stocks. They’re admitting they are unable to use any further liquidity to better their business. Essentially their business is at a maximum level and any additional profit is only useful for building their market cap. They’ve considered all growth and development options and found them all less valuable than buying their own stock.

Tells me their profit margins and market powers are holding the market back greatly.
A slight tit bit here, I don’t think Paper is a great name for this great looking product. How are people supposed to find it easily online?
Also do something on accident (instead of by accident).

And the word softwares (software is correct for the plural form).
that's the thing -- I'll be making 6-8 different branches out of that experimental branch.

In rebase world, I have a cycle of "cherry-pick a few changes, get them into master, rebase experimental so it gets smaller; repeat until nothing is left of experimental"

In permanent world, I guess I have two worktrees and copy files one-by-one, manually?
I'm well-aware of what "those letters" mean. I hope you're able to contextualize that quote with the rest of that post as well as my subsequent reply.