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They should have started with Newton, not Einstein. Heisenberg is also missing.

Newton was so excited to detect this new supernatural attracting force over great distances to hold the planets together, as clear proof that God exists.

Mechanics cannot explain contact-less attracting forces, in mechanics there are only repelling forces, caused by direct contact. Newton never gave up and disappeared into this gravity=god hole forever.

Quantum-mechanics had the same problem, as Heisenberg detected. The dual nature of particles and waves don't hold for gravity, there cannot be a gravity particle as counterpart to the attracting force. Einstein was the same opinion, but still the Boor folks had their way. Even the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosenstein Paradoxon, which disproved causality in the standard model, was explained away.

Same for black holes, the mysteriously postulated dark matter and more.
Neither am I, honestly, maybe I phrased it too strongly. Pretty sure = I think I read it somewhere and it makes sense.

Regardless, hybrid makes a lot of sense! TIL!
You can customize Geany to run a command to compile your code; output will show up in a status panel. Similarly you can have a command to run your program, either in a new xterm or the built-in terminal.
Given that it was discovered in the 1950's, I don't think you're going to see a patent on the versions currently being used in clinic. Now,if someone creates a more bio-available/active functionalized variant of it, fine that might get patented. But I doubt it would have much of an impact on the suggested COVID19 treatment (and would likely be years away from market)
Nano.
>Log-analyzers as alternative

You mean... no opt-in popup is required for logfiles? Isn't it also PII? IP + browser + timestamp + referrer? It's almost enough to identify unique visitors.
> Just making something public is not enough though.

I agree, certainly the server-side part of the project must be open for this to make sense.
It’s being appealed. That’s in your article.
Disclaimer: Zero formal background in Physics, but I want to learn.

It has always felt like gravity is the result of some other "thing" going on. There are two reasons for why I believe this:

1. Gravitational waves are weird, the idea that the resulting force of gravity can travel away from where it was created. I can't think of any other examples where something similar happens with another force without something "carrying" it.

2. At lot of the issues we have with our current models come from gravity. If it be on the quantum or Universe scale, our picture of what we believe gravity to be seems to be limited to our localized experience of it.

I sometimes try to run through a thought experiment where I try to imagine how gravity, space and time may behave at the very edge of the Universe, because things there surely must seem weird. If space and time cannot be created or destroyed, what is being "traded" to expand the Universe?

An alternate idea I've had is that the Universe is not expanding outwards, but expanding inwards, where galaxies roughly stay where there are and the properties of space-time between them changes. We always imagine the Universe in the three dimensional space we experience it in when thinking about gravity, but the quantum scale seems to suggest there must exist other spatial dimensions.

Just some brain farts anyway, any reading material people can point me towards I would be highly appreciative :)
Can someone please find me an actual black person who is offended by the use of the term "master" in the context of a code branch? This whole thing seems to be to be a sanctimonious exercise in virtue-signalling.
joe, pico, nano, elvis, jedit, acme, gedit, kedit... and those are just the ones that popped into my head within a few seconds. There are legions more.
ed is also relevant if you find yourself on an old Sun box with a corrupted /usr volume. In order to rescue the system you need an editor, and ed always lived in /bin. This happened to me a few years ago (2001 I think).
Sometimes comments like "Oh I'm procrastinating by reading this article while at work (at my successful software engineering job)" seem a little insensitive. It's like telling a blind man "Yeah, I close my eyes too sometimes".
This is kind of a semantic argument since the word "electron" means a particle with a specific mass and charge.

A positron would be different.
Low-cost dexamethasone reduces death by up to one third in hospitalised patients [pdf]
Geany is probably the lightest IDE that works well with Rust. If you just basically want an editor with shortcuts to run terminal commands, it's a great solution.
Two other treatments with results

- low dose of blood thinner (also significant improvement and widely available)

- IL-6 inhibitor tocilizumab (some improvement in severe cases but expensive and hard to scale up)

Both dexamethasone and tocilizumab weaken the immune system. Helps against the overshooting but risks other infections.
There's an unimaginable amount of business critical code written in Java already. Java is seen by businesses as good enough, so, barring some breakthroughs in CS, there will not be much pressure to migrate off it. And even if there were (let's say Oracle starts charging unreasonably much for Java, the way IBM does for mainframes), we can still see plenty of COBOL/MF architectures in the wild today.
On that topic (compared the Avro Arrow with the SAAB Draken, developed at the same time):

http://bestfighter4canada.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-tale-of-two...

> Still, the biggest difference between the Arrow and the Draken were basic design philosophies. The Arrow was intended to "best in the world"... While the Draken was simply intended to be the "best for Sweden".

> Sometimes "good enough" is more than enough, and "the best" is too damn much.
As a European I just feel "finally". It's time for this kind of monopolistic behaviors to stop.
What does that mean for a space-faring civilization that can see almost infinitely farther than on land?
>I don't have any statistics, but it seems obvious that

So no, (1) you don't have any data, to even say "most" women do, and (2) that's not what the guy I replied to said, he said "all" women.
My understanding is that from General Relativity (GR) mass carrying particles (and other energy-momentum) curves space-time, and that curvature is what we understand as gravity. I'm aware of there needing to be an exchange particle due to quantum mechanical (QM) representations, but have not been convinced how they work.

I wonder if the Higgs particle could be a candidate for the force carrier in the QM representation of GR (e.g. the resulting higgs field interacts with and causes space-time curvature instead of energy-momentum doing it directly). That is speculation on my part from a lay-person perspective, so could be completely wrong.
> “The Arrow was an extremely high-performance, hi-tech fighter,” says Coles. “Its designers had made very few compromises to keep its costs down, and it was very much the 'gold-plated' solution.”

Sounds like this is a cautionary tale of what happens when you do what some people here suggest; doing everything the 'right/best' way, instead of realising that being engineer means making compromises.
Can confirm. I’m able to spin up multiple sets of m5.24xlarge without anybody blinking twice, but I’m not trusted to spend money to buy a ballpoint, for which I’ll have to go through the whole PO process.
The disconnect here is unreal.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything by necessity becomes a nail.
It's another reason once you bought a router to reflash it with alternative firmwares as OpenWRT or DD-WRT
> The alternative is to tackle something even harder that includes the thing you want to make as a special case.

This is the main operating principle of http://www.structuredprocrastination.com
'Major breakthrough' as UK scientists find £5 steroid cuts Covid-19 deaths
>Gravity Breeds Singularities

Gravity or GR? Is there even any reason to take singularities seriously? Aren't singularities simply places where GR as a theory falls flat on its face and therefore singularities don't actually describe any physical phenomena?
> Still, these HN threads always come to the same conclusion that there remain elements of the college experience that can only be found on campus.

In my view the college experience (societies, living away from home, mixing with people from outside your local area) is far more useful than the actual teaching. "There's a time and a place for everything - and it's called college".

However with covid, all that is removed, and you're left with some lectures (which in normal times you can't pause or rewind, and may well be at terrible times of the day), and an occasional chat with a bored professor.
I didn't realize it would integrate with Rust

Back to geany!
>> They don't even have a space program.

Actually this is factually incorrect. They do have a space program and planning to send their first satellite to Mars this year: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/it-is-about-ou...
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That, and the more you optimize for runtime performance, the less compile-time performance you have.
Pay a good person enough money and they become a bad person very quickly.
They have quite an ambitious space program, several successful satellite missions, and 2 astronauts (so far). Their Mars orbiter is launching next month.
I'm with you mate, all the way.
I can't understate how much I love the Mindstorms sets. It's almost a perfect learning toy - it's straightforward to get started (following the instructions and building the robots) and you can easily graduate to getting creative and building other robots and programming them to do whatever.

I still remember discovering how gear reductions work while playing with the original mindstorms set at age ~11. I had to explain this to high-school kids in FIRST Tech Challenge a couple years ago, they had never worked with gears before.
Sounds like your approach to work might be the problem. Mix it up. Pick a simple side project and start then finish it. Doesn't even need to be software. The act of finishing it is the important part.

During a funk in my 20s I went into a city Id never been to and spent the whole day looking at art. Thoroughly bored out of my skull. But over the next few days I had so many ideas for things.

Perhaps you need to get really thoroughly and industrial-strength bored?
Don’t try to sell a product that doesn’t exist yet?
First drug proves able to improve survival from Covid-19
In „The Secret of Our Success“ (aside: everytime I write that title I cringe a little at how self-help-y it sounds), Joseph Henrich conjectures that human divination rituals might have evolved as a way to randomize hunting behavior so as not to become predictable to the animals being hunted for. Not sure how plausible to find it, but I found the thought pretty intriguing.
That must have been really long time ago, I remember having no problem dual-booting XP with linux.
1) It's definitely not the first. Other methods have universal guarantees of some form or other with well quantified rates of convergence, e.g. k-NN would be the best known example.

2) There are some restrictions on the class of density functions it can model, so arbitrarily weird is a bit strong, but the model class is very general.

3) The weights needed to model any function in this class although finite, can be arbitrarily large. The regret of a single neuron has a dependence on the diameter of the convex set your weights reside in, so there is a nasty constant of sorts in there, and this will also carry over when you analyse the regret of a complete network. With such a general statement, it's unavoidable sadly.

4) The universality result on its own is just a nice property. See it as the first stepping stone to a more meaningful analysis. What you really want is for the model class to grow as you add more neurons, using weights within a realistic range, and that the method performs well in practice on some problems people care about -- we provide empirical evidence that the capacity grows on par with deep relu networks with our capacity experiments, and show a bunch of results where the method works, but we don't have a theoretical characterisation of the class of density functions it can model well (i.e. if the function has some nice structural property, then a network of reasonable size is guaranteed to learn a good approximation quickly). Such a result would be extraordinary in my eyes. Because the network is composed of simple and well understood building blocks, I am optimistic that such an analysis will be possible in the future.
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Ask HN: Are there any Thunderbolt3 or USB 3.1 docks?
Are there any _actual_ Thunderbolt3 or USB3.1 docks that work? Amazon is littered with USB 3.0 docks that have a USB-C connector, but can't do full gig-speed network transfers while dual monitors are attached.

Has anyone found an _actual_ thunderbolt3 or USB 3.1 dock that delivers full gigabit network speed while also supporting dual monitors (1080p is fine)? Thank you!
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I remember Geany, it was the first "IDE" I ever used :) . I really like that the "build system" was pretty much just scripts that you could do yourself, it made it pretty much usable for any workflow easily. Granted, you could not customize it and integrate everything as much as VS Code, Atom and the likes, but it is doing its job and run extremely good on very old computer.
Finally a good looking schema visualizer.

The landing page could be a bit more clear what is the process to get my schema into your system.

Do you plan to add copy-paste schema exports from my local machine?
We don't really know, even if we DO use math.

It's just a fundamental property of the universe that has no explanation (yet).

String theory tries to formulate why... but that's all just theory for now.
Trick question (or trick answer): depends what you mean by "electricity", which is one of those questions that's simple to ask but collapses into a pile of details on closer inspection.

The electric field and magnetic field are tied together in the manner described by Maxwell's equations. This results in "electromagnetic waves", which are indeed carried by photons in free space.

It is often helpful to look at the fields as being the real "electricity", or at least use the lumped approximation we call "current", and this brings various charge carriers along with it. Electrons are the common charge carrier, but ions can carry charge (e.g. in batteries), and in semiconductors we use "holes", which are the absence of an electron. Not an anti-electron, just the space where it's supposed to be.
For comparison, the Italian version was donated to the government by the developer, Bending Spoon. They are not small, but I really don't think they would have been able to donate 20M€ of effort.

To be fair the backend, while developed by Bending Spoon, is operated by the government, while the 20M€ from the German government might also include operation? But still
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Dunno. Dief sold out the Canadian people and their heritage in return for... something....
Internet needs new engines (search engine, knowledge engine, trust engine)
Do you remember the controversy about the Knowledge Engine project by the wikimedia foundation ? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Fo...
The concept remains valid and very interesting.
Honestly, I discover this topic after I decided the web needs to be shaken a bit, or accessible differently ; then we started to build our venture with my associate.
The reason why we designed byBr and especially his engine we called internally "connect engine" is that online presence is not really omnichannel but more in silo channel and all big tech players try to keep you locked in their world.
Don't you think it is ridiculous in 2020 to be still forced to search the web in search engines or in all platforms' search fields when you know what you are looking for? Take the experience with voice assistant, in between there is a gap (one extreme you put keywords and have ranked results, the other extreme you got one single result curated and offered vocally).
We are trying to bridge that gap with our trust engine which animates our mobile app 'byBr. Snap Assistant'.
If you are intrigued to read the story behind the product, it's the link !
I'm so happy to share this with you today as it is my first post ever - I think here (I know it's very bad/sad)

Hope you'll like it

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Then they can already brick your device by replacing the firmware.

This is the reason for threat models. Don't waste your time worrying about theoretical but redundant attacks.
Domes aside, underground is obviously the right idea. You can use the tailings to mine for ice while you're digging the spaces.

The one surprise here: water filled skylights are brilliant. They let light through, block radiation, and you can use them for fish and excess water storage.
Sarcastically phrased, but it's the real answer. The colleges need to shed objective measures so they can continue their social programs unimpeded by any objective standards that might reveal their increasingly obvious biases.

If you want to get into Harvard, I recommend striving to demonstrate greater fealty to the hardest of hard left-wing ideals than your fellow applicants, as that will become the real criterion for admission as fast as they feel like they can make it.
> So are you absolutely sure that I can buy Nintendo stuff today and get games from anywhere in the world?

Yes, I have a UK switch that I got (it was the diablo bundle), I have a uk switch account and a us switch account. Diablo works fine. All my us purchased switch games (physical) and downloaded games from the us store on this uk switch.
Aren't services like this one of the reasons that publishers gets dozens of spam emails every day?

E.g. "I read your article [link] and thought this [link] would be a great addition!"

I still get around 100 emails every month to a 6 year old address that I used for publishing purposes.
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I remember using Geany throughout high school for our Java/AP Computer Science classes, where it was the editor you were required to use. While I had it customized as much as the system would allow me, calling it an “IDE” is being a bit generous: my Sublime Text can do much, much more than Geany possibly could, and I’m not sure I would call even that an IDE. Geany is basically just a simple, slightly mediocre GUI text editor-which might be what you’re looking for in some cases-but do note that most people’s command-line text editor setups are generally more advanced than it. (If I could compare it to an editor, I’d say it’s just slightly more advanced than nano.)
It's worth reading the original article in full. I simultaneously understand why they did it and am deeply uncomfortable with the tactic.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fb...
Was waiting for app stores to be tried on anti competition law. App stores is basically a form of App monopoly On devices where the Device operating system vendor decides which apps get go no go. It can block competing apps such as Spotify/Apple Music for example. One could argue the same for YouTube music vs Spotify.

Also vendor decides kickback commission fees which may also be anti competitive.

Same for payment services nfc access.

Also sometime vendor makes similar function from an app IOS battery health. Blocks Native Battery api access, makes it hard to sell battery analytical apps.
Just about every architectural firm has made big bucks by selling glorious empty buildings to those oil barons. It's almost comical to hear them talk of "sustainability" in the world's least sustainable place and autocracy, where the coming tourism collapse collides with decades of unprecedented real estate waste, borrowed money and oil drying up.
> They have changed completely as a society at least twice before on their own.

Can you name any events? I would be hard pressed to find any where anything happened "on their own" (and that is not specific to Japan). No country is completely isolated, not even Japan during Sakoku.

For the to last major ones, I wouldn't call "On their own" an entirely accurate description: Being on the losing side of WWII and under occupation, and negotiating at gunpoint a treaty with US to end the self-isolation of Japan.
Yet, somehow, Flash Player updates are now being distributed through Windows Update (to systems where Flash was never purposefully installed).
I always enjoyed the layout of the Moonbase[0] from Space 1999, I don't recall a single dome in that setup yet it made sense.

[0]https://alphanpeter.tumblr.com/image/177610992673
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Lost sourcecode of 90s pirate software series “Twilight” found
I don't think that's correct. Electricity is the electron potential across a medium. That's not the same as an electromagnetic wave.
So the first paragraph on the photon wiki page might give you a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
For me it depends strongly on the task whether 'just get started' works or not. With menial tasks like emptying the dishwasher I only have to convince myself to do the minimum possible amount of progress and I will usually keep doing until I'm done. I might even get inspired to do some related task afterwards. But if it is something boring but purely cognitive, like say data entry, I start, congratulate myself for making progress and promptly switch to something more fun.
If you're going to risk your business's livelihood to bravely take a stand, it should be in a situation where you can win. Where your bold action will be the turning point towards victory of righteousness. And where the magnitude of that victory is commensurate with the risk of your business's failure.

Denying the use of racially biased facial recognition software is a much clearer example where the risks are lower and the impact much, much greater.

It's much less clear that a source code repository is the fulcrum that enables 40 children to be jammed into a room without hygiene. Maybe if you worked for a critical supplier for ICE you could have an impact (which I would much encourage).
Anecdotally, I noticed a browsing speed up when I switched from LastPass to Bitwarden on older laptops.
Researchers develop artificial synapse that works with living cells
Thinking about it, brains/muscle doesn't sound so bad

Or master/blaster as in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Recent YC company that does SaaS reviews for startups: https://satchel.com

Not associated with them, but I found their comparisons helpful!
This reminds me of the recent moving visual on twitter of "fluid logic gates" where streams of water represent incoming electricity.
https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1188749430020698112
The latter. I’ve heard someone explain it this way before, and I think it neatly sums up my own experience: “your brain is like a TV, except there’s 30 channels on at once, and someone else has the remote” (paraphrasing).

If I can just get into “The Zone” things do work out, and I’m finally able to direct my attention towards a single task. Taking Ritalin greatly increases the probability of this occurring, and so does, amazingly, cannabis.

In general, I have trouble both starting, and then consistently doing a task for any reasonable amount of time. I’ll start watching a movie, then 30 minutes in go for a walk, then come home and cook dinner, then forget about it and go back to watching the movie, then remember the dinner and start eating, then... and on an on.

I’ve been told it doesn’t look that bad from the outside, but it gives me great anxiety that I can’t consistently finish anything I start :(
Thank you for making me laugh in these trying times.