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Basically word order reflects the informational structure of the sentence, as opposed to grammatical structure. So what was known before, what is the new information, what is the surprising bit etc. East Asian languages like Japanese do this as well and are perhaps better known for this internationally.

I didn't say he stole the money. - Nem (not) én (I) mondtam (said-I), hogy (that) ellopta (he-stole) a (the) pénzt (money-accusative).

i DIDN'T say he stole the money. - Én nem mondtam, hogy ellopta a pénzt.

i didn't SAY he stole the money. - Mondani nem mondtam, hogy ellopta a pénzt. (Needs a bit of different structure)

i didn't say HE stole the money. - Nem mondtam, hogy ő lopta el a pénzt. (See how ő=he/she has only appeared now, it was implied by the conjugation before)

i didn't say he STOLE the money. - Nem azt mondtam, hogy ellopta a pénzt.

i didn't say he stole THE money. - Nem azt mondtam, hogy A pénzt lopta el. (This one is unusual already in English, we'd explicitly say "that money", not just "THE money").

i didn't say he stole the MONEY. - Nem azt mondtam, hogy a pénzt lopta el.

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Imagine if English had versions like:

Not I said he stole the money.
I not said he stole the money.
I not said stole he the money.
I not said the money he stole.

Or something like that. Depending on which part is negated the order would be different. However since English morphology is very simple, you can't shuffle the words around because grammatical structure is only encoded by the words' position in the sentence, there are no significant conjugations and declensions to mark words according to their role in the sentence.
I think it's more than that. The abstract nature allows for higher information density. The more you depict reality, the more you are constrained by the real world.

To take the game from the article as an example. http://www.voja.rs/PROJECTS/GAME_HTM/screen1.jpg This one screen depicts seven floors and a bunch of objects. You can see a lot of things well before you need to interact with them. A lot of 3d views limit the scope of what you can see so that the game becomes 'Here's a thing, deal with it! Here's three more things, deal with them! Here's another...'

There's also a bit of a disconnect between the visuals and reality of a lot of modern games. When everything looks near photo realistic, you expect to be able to walk through that gap in those rocks over there, but actually your hitbox is a little large and you won't fit. You don't get those ambiguities so much in 2D. Partially because of the abstract nature makes traversable/non-traversable quite distinct, but also because the view you are seeing will have been seen by the level creator.
Arbitrary points of view allow you to look at a game in a way the creator didn't and can potentially expose missed details.

I think some of the changes are just styles of design that have drifted over the years, some of those may have been driven by technical issues but now exist on their own. For instance early 3D games had much lower frame-rates which mandated a type of gameplay. Those limitations are now gone, but I think it left a lasting effect on the style of game that people made.
> Firefox mobile was how old? Two years?

I think the old Firefox for Android (Fennec) has been around for at least 10 years, not 2.
I would assume there to be a multitude of bad reasons, but as for a good one.. If you forced me to pick one driving one, the perception that he is laundering his reputation through philanthrophy would hopefully be it.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad the good.
> A few cases in Asia every year and we’re done

We also need to get rid of a vaccine-derived polio in Africa (and some places in Asia).
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I'm not from US and when I see people claim for abolition of police I can only imagine the world they live in, completely disconnected from reality.
Seriously, abolishing police? Is this some kind of demolition-man-like future?
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This is why I was suggesting this might not be sustainable. Carriers have built their business based on certain assumptions. The big assumption is that customers prefer having predictable pricing. This assumption is correct for every other business they deal with, for the carriers Amazon is an aberration. Since Amazon only provides a small percentage of their business, carriers must invest significantly in building out a system for destination based pricing just for Amazon. The alternative is to simply assume all of Amazon's package traffic is going to be lowest-margin and price appropriately.
What if they switched CC numbers TO IPV6 addresses? Insane or genius?
I'm in the US and I'm getting a lot of results. Guess it was fixed.
This poll is either disingenuous or misguided - what percent of black Americans want better social services?

The call the defund the police doesn’t end with taking money from the police, the goal is to be able to provide more specific services using other departments outside of law enforcement.
The numbers don't add up. This is essentially the math which blames avocado toast for why millennials aren't buying homes. If the price of university has doubled relative to median wages in the past 50 years, you're going to have to buy an awful lot of smartphones every year to account for that difference.
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The whole "defund the police" movement feels very much in line with the "Luxury beliefs" [1] idea that has been floating around for the past year or so.

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-...
I'd like to see how this cuts by age. A lot of older folks I talk to see police very differently, and often say "You just don't know how things used to be before the police", which I think really misses what people are asking for ie: redistribution of grossly overbudgeted police departments to preventative measures like better schooling, community centers, and more subtle reactive measures like un-armed "police" (or whatever you want to call this new role).

I also wonder if the question were phrased differently (and more accurately representing what is actually being asked for), more like "Would you support an N% cut to police budgets, which would come from X part of the police budget, to support preventative measures like social services?", if we'd see a different response.
Let's hope that hockey doesn't go exactly the way of baseball.

If you haven't noticed, pro baseball players have mostly switched from ash to maple. Maple bats now fail more often and they fail catastrophically, with sharp fragments flying at high speed. Players and fans are getting injured far more frequently, such as a Cubs player getting impaled [1].

At least baseball is starting to catch up with hockey in terms of nets that prevent objects flying into the fan areas.

[1] https://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/cubs-bizarre-injur...

> Cubs rookie Tyler Colvin remains in the hospital Sunday night after a shard of teammate Welington Castillo’s maple bat punctured his chest during Chicago’s game against the Marlins. Colvin was on third base when Castillo broke his bat on a double down the left-field line. A larger piece of Castillo’s bat hit Colvin in the chest, with a sharp edge piercing his chest wall.

> Colvin is in stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. There was minimal bleeding, but doctors were trying to prevent a collapsed lung, according to MLB.com. If Colvin had been hit or cut in the neck, his injury could have been much more severe.
Some users also buy a Kindle which is subsidized by ads? I pay to avoid this and change privacy settings..

If you are using a device designed to market to you - they almost all run ads and collect analytics. I guess this is technically not a user facing feature, but it provides some user benefit (cheaper price).

Does anyone know sales breakdowns? If everyone is concerned about privacy / not being marketed too I guess the versions with ads are not selling. But I've been surprised not that marketing platforms collect data (authors website did) but that most users don't care about this "abuse" that the author is so concerned about.
I was referring to the tragedy in the author's life.
I've always heard mixed feelings about Tony. I wonder if there are any HNers who have a perspective they'd like to share.
Is this designed or intended to get around ad blockers, third party script blocking, and other privacy tools?
I've done it before on a really old Kindle... KOReader isn't precisely an alternate firmware. It's just a piece of software you run on the Kindle in place of the default, and it does have its advantages, at least on my old Kindle: for example, I could enable Night Mode and read ePubs. It also supported connecting to Calibre wirelessly which was also convenient-ish (Calibre still eats up MIME types and I was very happy on the day I could finally uninstall it, and KOReader doesn't support using USB to transfer without first stopping KOReader). Other than that, maybe it's because my Kindle was aging, but the battery life seemed to worsen dramatically after jailbreaking, and I had to downgrade to an older firwmare in order to jailbreak it.

The Kindle was getting old and I bought a Kobo anyway (in part because I'm tired of contributing to Amazon's empire, and further propelled by the fact that it supports Adobe DRM'ed ePubs [and well, while I don't like DRM, it's nice to be able to have the option of using my local library's ebooks]). I'd think you're correct about the Kobo's jailbreaking (haven't tried it myself, but I do intend on doing it in the future, and perhaps developing software for it), but I know already it's much, much easier to customize, thanks to the wonderful hidden folder with the Kobo eReader.conf file, where you can, for example, set the power button to screenshot (which disables the power button, but I have an aftermarket magnetic sleep cover, so this isn't an issue).
All these anti vaxxer people are also pushing HCQ ... but it actually does prevent Malaria. If not for the side effects that compound over time, if the body was able to flush it out somehow, it could be very useful, no?

That or finding ways to sterilize all anopheles mosquitoes, or do other mosquitoes carry it also
There are two similar but crucially different problems with the current live polio vaccine that both end in cases of paralytic polio. Vaccine-associated paralytic polio is a very rare complication where someone gets full-on paralytic polio as a result of being vaccinated; it can also happen to people who catch the vaccine virus from someone else rather than from vaccination, but it's just as rare there. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus is the one that's really nasty for elimination efforts - once the vaccine poliovirus circulates unchecked within a community for a while, it mutates and basically turns back into full-on real, unweakened polio in all its contagious paralytic awfulness, at which point anyone who's exposed to it is at much higher risk. As I understand it, cVDPV makes up the large majority of both polio cases and paralytic polio cases across the globe these days, and 100% of cases in Africa now the wild-type virus has been eliminated from there.

If VAPP was the only problem it could easily be fixed just by eliminating polio and then ending the live vaccination program. Unfortunately, that would make the cVDPV problem worse because it's an actual, circulating virus that primarily infects people who haven't been vaccinated, and ending vaccination would increase the number of people at risk from it. As the document from 2015 you've found suggests, the folks trying to eliminate polio hoped that if they phased out the live oral polio vaccine carefully and in well-coordinated ways they could avoid major cVDPV outbreaks afterwards. This doesn't seem to have worked out as well as they hoped back then. In particular, this article and HN discussion from a few months ago which someone helpfully dug up is mostly about the failure of this endgame plan in Africa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21920406
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I don't think this is such a big deal - in general, and with some precautions.

The glues weren't so bad. The older the piece, the more likely they are to have safe glues. [1]

Now for lead: You really don't want to eat or inhale lead. This might mean that you can't eat off of old dishes, for example (Friend of the family had an incident years ago). Or that you need to get something that was painted before 1978 tested for lead paint - and then, if you have it, you might have to treat the piece to seal the lead paint in. You might not want to lick the furniture or let kids do so. Not all paint was lead paint, and not everything got painted.

New furniture often leeches things from the plastics and foams and glues used in manufacturing. (So do new cars - it gives the 'new car' smell). Which aren't all that healthy either. This is despite safety regulations. I honestly don't know how it compares to antique stuff, though: We just know it is likely to have less known bad stuff and zero chances of lead.

[1]https://www.discoverypub.com/columns/michelleknows/1017_Mich...
> d is a common divisor of a,b if there exists x,y such that dx = ay

d = 9
a = 3
b = 537
x = 1
y = 3

dx = 9(1) = 9
ay = 3(3) = 9 = dx

You can't actually have meant this? You're claiming that 9 is a common divisor of the pair (3, b), where b is any value. It's not even a divisor of 3.
Can Japan not obtain another country code from Visa/Mastercard (part of the first 6 digits)?
Have you seen what the average Mac user’s computer often looks like? It’s often a mess of five years old Adobe flash update messages, and adware like MacKeeper. I know because I’ve had to spend hours cleaning this trash up from machines belonging to friends and family. Meanwhile this has never been an issue on the iPhone.

The lack of UX-degrading software on the iPad is also the primary reason why I’ve been pushing my friends and family away from the Mac and onto the iPad. With the limited software ecosystem of the iPad, there’s far less things for them to screw up on the Mac.
The BBC article doesn't explain what "wild" means in detail. This NPR article does:

> And there's another type of polio that's problematic. Sixteen African nations are currently battling outbreaks of what's called "vaccine-derived polio." This is a form of polio that stems from the oral polio vaccine used in lower income countries because it is cheap and easy to administer.

> The oral vaccine contains a live but weakened version of the polio virus. The virus replicates inside the child's intestine and eventually is excreted. In places with poor sanitation, fecal matter can enter the drinking water supply and the virus is able to start spreading from person to person.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/25/9058847...
I think its poor practice, but undefined behavior shouldn't instantly invalidate results. In fact, this mindset is what keeps people from publishing the code in the first place.

Let the scientists publish UB code, and even the artifacts produced, the executables. Then, if such problems are found in the code by professionals, they can investigate it fully and find if it leads to a tangible flaw that invalidates the research or not.

You would drive yourself mad pointing out places in math proofs where some steps, even seemingly important ones, were skipped. But the papers are not retracted unless such a gap actually holds a flaw that invalidates the rest of thr proof.

Let thdm publish their gross, awful, and even buggy code. Sometimes the bugs don't effect the outcomes.
What issues are you experiencing re: "crappy sync-across-devices"? Having a Firefox account makes all this seamless.
Not being from the US is no excuse for being ignorant and arrogant on the matter.
Apple never threatened the developmental licenses of anyone using the Unreal Engine. They said they would remove all Epic access to developer program tools (e.g. beta access to operating systems and Xcode) and to partner programs (presumably for advance hardware testing).

This would have a second-hand effect on Epic's ability to provide timely updates to their engine and remain competitive to alternatives like Unreal on the platform. It also would likely lead to a lot of problems with Epic's Game Store on Mac no longer being properly signed.
This headline buries the more material difference outlined in the article, which is the major difference between black/Asian Americans and other groups in how likely they feel they are to be treated with respect by the police in any individual encounter.
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There's a middle ground. Simple hardwood desk. Rudimentary hardwood bed frame. A comfortable wood chair. A maple cutting board.

They don't have to be big, horribly heavy, and ornate. They can be simple, durable, and provide utility for years when particleboard would have disintegrated.
It's not surprising that people still want the police around... they just want to be treated equally when they interact with the police.
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If refs noticed it, you could get a penalty.

I'm curious, what penalty gets called here? I wasn't aware there was a "your equipment fell apart" penalty.
Right. There was some previous discussion on Hacker News about this under the headline "Polio eradication program faces hard choices as endgame strategy falters" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21920406].
You’re seemingly pushing you own agenda here?

As the article itself says:

> Are other approaches feasible? For example, Firefox’s captive portal test uses delegated namespace probe queries, directing them away from the root servers towards the browser’s infrastructure.
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> I can only imagine the world they live in

You know, you can go and read why they advocate for that position. You can do more than just imagine--more than just imprinting your own biases onto their position. It's just lazy.
You can want a police presence, you can also want those police to be properly trained in use of force, and you can want a more robust policy for dealing with emergent mental health issues all at the same time. None of those are exclusive of each other.

If I were a police officer or worked in that area of policy, I would be appalled at the degree of correlation that the more frequently people reported seeing the police, the less they wanted to see police around.

This is yet another false and divisive zero sum framing of a complex issue. Everyone deserves quality police service from their municipal and state authorities, police deserve accountability for colleagues that break the law and put good police officers at risk, and everyone deserves policing that is unbiased and increases public safety regardless of race, creed, or any other factor.
This will only exacerbate the main issue [0].

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/316247/black-americans-police-e...
> ______ isn’t going anywhere and it is demonstrably useful for national security.

Fill in the blank, masters. Maximize our security.
His reputation didn't really need "laundering". He ran a software company, sometimes aggressively, but people act like he ran a private military corporation and trafficked in blood diamonds.
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"it is amazing to me that at no point do we receive any training regarding practical components of research" - this varies A LOT based upon advisor. I'd be wary of drawing conclusions from a small data set. I've seen huge variances in what students learn from advisors, within the same department, within the same discipline, etc. It's too easy to paint "the PhD process" with broad brush strokes...
I disagree. A strongly inclusionist position would add articles to the point where there will be many pockets of articles edited according to the POV of single individuals (or interest groups), where there aren't other "parties [interested enough] to determine (and debate) what would go into the encyclopedia."

For a crowdsourced project like Wikipedia to work, there has to be a critical density of contributions, so the different contributors will keep each other in check without coordination. Otherwise, you just get Geocities.
Well, I think one of the shifts that happened is that research changed from "I'm charting my own course in an undiscovered field and accept all liability" to "a university factory promises me a degree and experience".

But here there is an incomplete jump -- in some programs it looks like a well-charted degree program, but has all the liability of research that may not work out. That's why I think (as pointed out above) some practical engineering fields do much better than purely theoretical fields in this regard.

It has also become much more expensive to give it a try and be wrong.

People who don't understand these factors and go in with the wrong expectations are highly likely to fall through the cracks, and not recognize when their program is going sideways or their advisor/topic relationship is not working out.
To improve police presence and interactions wouldn't you actually want to fund the police and make sure they go through proper training to ensure they can handle difficult situations? A lack of funding would probably result in a worse trained police force, no?
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Well, we gave them the chance to create their own utopia in the CHAZ area and that became another stunning failure.

It goes to show that realistically, they (who ever wants to defund the police) are really asking for an anarcho-communist utopia.
Then please explain why abolition of a basic public service would lead to better living conditions. Would you like to abolish water service or the army too?
For more uplifting news, I spent a few hours today diving into figures about human development for a small project about greatest differences between neighbouring countries. They're basically all going up. Aside from countries at war (e.g. Syria) and minor setbacks like 2008, we're doing better all the time. I actually made a wallpaper from one of them:

https://lucb1e.com/tmp/hn-whatsthisgraph.png What does this show?

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You can find this graph interactively on the United Nations Development Programme website: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data (this graph can be found in (rot13) urnygu -> yvsr rkcrpgnapl ng ovegu).
This shouldn't be a suprise. Some people like to pretend that higher crime rates in some areas is strictly due to higher police presence, but it's clearly not the case. I remember after the protests in Baltimore from FreddIe Gray, the police were told to have a much smaller presence, and not do as much proactive policing. It wasn't long before the people who actually live in those neighborhoods were complaining about the increasing crime rate due to a smaller police presence.
The tweet in question isn't written by the wiki editor guy. It's by someone else (who does presumably speak Scots).
This project (and OpenOFDM) is massively impressive. The standard is complex, and almost nothing works until just about everything is working. They should write a blog about when the first ping worked.

Anyway, there is a lot of value as a testbench or as a standard implementation for others. I can only imagine how much a testbench would cost...

https://ip.cadence.com/uploads/706/dsv-sim-eth-wireless80211...