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That’s a misprint, the WMAP measurement was plus or minus 130 million years.
Unfortunately we rely on registrars for too many things nowadays, which is probably as bad as our enormous trust on commercial certificate authorities.
Is that? If you don't write all your code with `cat`, is that an indication that something is wrong as well?
Strange layouts and maintenance projects are kind of my jam, so you may be increasing my enticement here. Thank you for the tips.
Observational error is always a good speculation. It seems to be at the heart of most of these "impossible physics" stories.

Remember not long ago when neutrinos were thought to have been observed moving faster than the speed of light? Cold fusion?

Before people jump on the idea of re-evaluating Einstein's theories, it's always good to get more people looking at the data, independently verifying it, thinking about it. In a few months, it's likely that this blip will disappear like most others.
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this is because things aren’t ‘moving apart’— space itself is expanding (into what? nobody knows). it’s not that the galaxies are being propelled apart from a force in a particular place either; everything is expanding away from everything else.

On the traditional balloon model, the surface of the balloon represents space itself. Those dots on the surface of an expanding balloon are not moving relative to space (the surface of the balloon), and so despite the distance increasing between us, the rate of increase of that distance is not bound by the speed of light, which only limits passage through spacetime.

The wikipedia page on redshift describes well how redshift applies to objects which are in space that is expanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Expansion_of_space
> Certainly, for public opinion, it means you now have to "tow the line", no protesting allowed. If you dare challenge us, we WILL REMOVE YOU.

Isn't that how all private companies work? If you walk into a mom-and-pop corner shop with no "shoes or shirt" you'll be removed as well—whether or not you think it's some kind of righteous protest.
Slightly related excerpt:

"Supporters of the Strong AI Hypothesis insisted that consciousness was a property of certain algorithms – a result of information being processed in certain ways, regardless of what machine, or organ, was used to perform the task. A computer model which manipulated data about itself and its ‘surroundings’ in essentially the same way as an organic brain would have to possess essentially the same mental states. ‘Simulated consciousness’ was as oxymoronic as ‘simulated addition’.

Opponents replied that when you modelled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modelled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modelled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modelled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?"

— Permutation City by Greg Egan
You CAN use for more than 1 target, you just need to reposition the telescope a bit. See [1], is a great great video on the subject. I can't recommend enough

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
Good point, I guess what I was trying to get at is that an object is more equivalent to a closure (function + data i.e. local stack environment) than just a function (which executes with input parameters). The top-voted response put that more eloquently than I did.
Wasn't there an `apt-transport-torrent`package a while back? It shouldn't be that hard to get going, just include a magnet link in the metadata for the package.
This is one of the C++ features that I loved since the early days, the ability to control how immutable a class actually is.
Everything we do is completely transparent. If a company deliberately violates the policies they have publicly adopted, not only would they be delisted they would likely be committing securities fraud. I think it's likely you'd hear about it.

You imply rather than state directly that you fear our regulatory decisions would be influenced by our commercial interests, so just to address that part, we have an extensive set of checks and balances in our own corporate structure that double-buffer these decisions.
they probably have different metadata. if you convert all of them to png, do they still differ?
Just downloaded and have to say, +1 it is seriously fast. Well done!
...and the proposal was to split it out, so at that point it would no longer be "included in the price".
>I really hope this will damage Apple’s brand and platform... They enforce their TOS randomly and this will happen to smaller companies too.

Epic's own customers are blaming Epic for this snafu. It's hard to see Apple as the bad guy when Epic is the one who broke the rules first. Almost every gamer isn't going to be sympathetic to a player who broke the rules and got banned.
Wild speculation:
Customer service, support, and other direct interactions are difficult to scale. Large corporations tend to optimize direct-contact positions for cost and speed over quality. This act of endlessly “optimizing staff time” to control costs inevitably ends up with people rushing through things in order to satisfy an unforgiving productivity algorithm. Consolidation/competition displaces local businesses that solve the service problem with higher-cost service offerings, leaving everyone with worse-off except for the beneficial owners of these consolidated behemoths.
It's a node app that uses python libraries. Interesting.
I've seen small parts of my email body in the "X-something" headers inserted there by the anti-spam service. I can try to find an example later when I get to my desktop.
I somewhat disagree. This will be true for pretty much any non-trivial code project. I'd love to see a language where I didn't need tools to understand what's happening, but that's impossible currently.

Do you really never need to see what a passed-in function actually does in your FP code? Never need to see what type an argument is in our fancy Haskell or Hindley-Milner-typed language?
presumably you can get jq to do something similar, well enough for 95% of the time, which is the issue. like you, i'm not saying new shells don't have a place, but adoption is really the problem.

you can get around this if the features are compelling enough. personally, i like fish. certainly, it was a rough adoption curve, but worth it IMO so i can stop setting up and tweaking zsh, plus the built-in auto-complete is fzf-ish enough for me. and i'm told people use powershell even on non-Windows systems. it's just a very tough sell.
Any reference info for this?
In my opinion, Kube's yaml blobs are comparable to binary programs. Complaining that an executable has its settings, paths, ports, memory limits, etc, hard coded inside of it is an obvious code smell.

Tools like Helm solve this problem.
UEFI systems generally can boot in compatibility BIOS mode. Macs can't, but they are the only exception I know.
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Yeah, that was a conscious choice of mine. I adhere to a narrower definition of what a subsidy is than you do: a benefit conferred by government to promote a specific behavior.

In the case of SNAP I think you've confused secondary/tertiary effects of a subsidy with a subsidy itself. In the case of education, I think you've confused an externality of an investment in education with a subsidy. I'm not sure you can even consider maternity/paternity leave a government subsidy considering what federal law exists for leave is unpaid (maybe if you consider the continuation of healthcare benefits?).

I can see how some would think I'm splitting hairs here. Taken to its logical conclusion, I could argue with your broad definition that just about any subsidy or tax on anything is also a subsidy or tax on raising children. E.g. families have more cell phones and higher cell phone bills, so taxes on cell phone bills are also taxes on having children. Gas taxes are a tax on extracurricular activities for your kids. That's a little much for me, I prefer to call them what they are, secondary/tertiary effects of a subsidy or tax.
As with everything, there is a delicate balance to be maintained. Toyota is an interesting example from the Japanese context. Luckily (?) things are today so out of whack that I don't think we have to worry about overcorrecting - for now.
I blogged about blessings here, also briefly comparing one of its capabilities - saving and restoring terminal state - to that of C's curses:

Blessings, curses-like Python library:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/08/blessings-curses-like-py...
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This is really just an ad for Proton Mail.
There we go! I’ve been saying forever that social logins are a bad idea for just this reason. What do you do when someone separates you from your users with no appeal and no recourse? In this place you can just shrug it off because nobody uses Apple sign-in anyway (look bellow for the one guy who does’s outrage). But imagine if Google or Facebook did this? The couple extra people you picked up by not making them create a new account wouldn’t be worth losing all your users or customers that sign in with either behemoth.

Prediction: future iOS release disables Fortnite app from running.
Additional context:

- Patton was temporarily removed from a single class, not fired.

- MBA students pay an outrageous price. They're customers. Customers are often irrational and wrong, but we all do what they want us to do anyway.

- There's no ideological component to this. The prof is not being suspended for having an unorthodox opinion. He's being suspended for using a poorly-chosen example, being asked by students to stop, and then using it again.

From another source:

> The students said some of them had voiced their concern to Patton during his lecture, but that he’d used the word in following class sections anyway. They also said they’d reached out to fellow Chinese students, who “confirmed that the pronunciation of this word is much different than what Professor Patton described in class. The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables.”[1]

1. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
> and having more of my own thoughts

The thoughts you have are shaped by the stimulus from your environment. Reading more and better books is a way to have more and better thoughts; it's not a zero sum game.
> I'd go so far as to say that for some significant set of them, wrecking nature and abusing commons are fundamental to the way they approach both living and recreation.

I can confirm having grown up rural, one of the more common past-times was to use ATVs or trucks to tear the hell outta wild areas.
Is it worth waiting to buy a new phone until they support 5g?
This is the difference between Fiber-to-the-Node and Fiber-to-the-Premises. FttN is already something that ISP's do without it being too newsworthy, but FttP is a much more expensive thing in general, because this last little bit of infrastructure is much more expensive per-customer than just running it to the Node and using existing cable or phone lines to reach your customer.

Google/Verizon's "fiber roll-out" was FttP, and what GP was talking about, and it's very understandable to abandon that approach to just FttN plus 5G.
Epic alleges that Apple is breaking the law, and breaking the App Store rules was a pretty much required step to establish standing to sue. Is Apple above the legal system, such that they should be able to destroy businesses that dare to challenge them in court, regardless of the merits of their claims and before they are even heard?
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Check out blessings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24423590
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Hi HN. I've been thinking of ways to create an interactive Twitch stream and this little
idea popped into my head; I wrote a bot that lets users make collaborative art.

The initial idea was to create something more than just pixel art, but as an MVP it works.
I plan on extending it by adding more ways for users to draw: things like shapes and paths, and the
ability to fill largers areas.

I also plan on scaling the grid automatically based on the number of viewers. Eventually I will add "gamified" modes too.

Let me know what you think.

See it in action here: https://www.twitch.tv/chatmakesart
> which could very negatively impact lives.

Yeah, but the lives of people that the worker who actually produces the citation/form/record/whatever will never see, doesn’t care about, and just views as an annoyance who’s making them do something.

The bigger populations and communities get, and the more remotely everyone can work, the less likely it is you’ll deal with someone who has any interest, knowledge or fucks to give about you. I’m sure if these companies had to get it right for the boss’s friend, they’d magically become competent.
As we're talking XML and XSD, does anyone have a good open tool for diagramming XML schemas into something browseable and graphical? Looking to automatically build docs from XSD in a CI task rather than having to do it manually.

oXygen gives nice output, but it's not open and doesn't work well in a CI pipeline.
Yes, but if you’re raising chickens with the express purpose of eating them later or collecting their eggs to eat, a raccoon attack that kills your flock is kind of a setback.

I’m also going to note that folks with a backyard flock aren’t really participating in the industrial scale operations you’re bringing up.

Disclaimer: we have a seven bird flock, though it’ll be six soon if the cock (one pair of chicks was unseeded) doesn’t stop attacking people in the very near future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ygqPepLjM

:D
Another thing that people also miss all the time is that not all FP languages are immutable by default, most FP that achieve a certain level of mainstream adoption also have OOP like constructs, finally even Smalltalk-80 already provided the mechanisms to do LINQ like coding and passing closures around.
> It's going to overload something that it already has to support a new feature,

Some companies in the valley just call that Wednesday.=)
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No, true 5G is a basket of technologies.

Sub-6 is about beam-forming — instead of sending your signal in all directions, it sends only in the direction of your device (and visa-versa which is why antenna design is a larger cost on mobile than before). Now the base station can use the same bandwidth for another device located in a different direction. Over time this will get better and have compounding effects.

And that’s just one item in the basket. mmWave is another. There are several.
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Open-source sensor platform to track UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)
I managed to get IP over Firewire working once but came to the same realization. There is never a time when it makes sense to deploy it. The solution was just unreliable enough that even if it was a bit faster you'd lose more hair trying to keep it working than it was worth.
I've been incredibly happy with mailbox.org.
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Civ 4 has ways to prevent excessive unit stacking. Mounted units, catapults, artillery and air strikes cause collateral damage. Nukes make death stacks useless.

I think the game was fine the way it was.
>2. Realize that total abstinence is the solution. If you had the willpower to restrict yourself to 30min a day, you wouldn't be here. You are one of those people too susceptible to hypnosis.

Unfortunately, people who have actually figured out how to do this are not here on the internet to tell you how.
Today's announcement is about our ability to trade all US exchange-listed securities. It's not about listing our own equities. This is what it means to be a National Securities Exchange in the US.

So if you want to trade any US exchange-listed symbol, your broker can do that on LTSE (assuming they are a member)
How do you propose to power a fleet of spacecraft at 550AU? Would you be able to acquire enough RTGs? What about DSN time for the downlink?
No, Gmail has scheduled send, too. Hit the downward arrow in the right part of the Send button and you can schedule sending the message.
> The alternative is ansible. Everybody I know moved away from Chef to Ansible and never looked back.

That has been my experience/perspective as well. This was what I found industry...

* ~2012 Puppet golden years
* ~2014 Chef golden years
* ~2016 Surge of popularity for Ansible and Salt.
* ~2018+ Kubernetes ubiquity, Terraform for cloud, Ansible for systems

Related to this, saw popularity in SSR (server-side rendering) with Rails before 2012-2016, and after 2016 rise of popularity in SPA (Angular, React, Vue) on top of micro-frameworks like Flask (Python), Express (Node), GoLang, others. Combined with this are ML and other backend infra that requires managing clusters that scale better on Kubernetes, where Chef/Puppet have little presence on either K8S or backend distributed clusters.
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We slipped down that slope long ago; stacking stones even as trail markers (“cairns”) is frequently prohibited in designated wilderness areas.

Eg.

> Do not build rock cairns or other trail markers

https://www.nps.gov/seki/planyourvisit/minimum-impact-restri...
Nah. I use gTLD's for my email. '.co' is just bad because it indeed looks like a missing character.

Things like '.family', '.wtf', etc. are less of a problem. At most people ask "what, no .com?", and that will be it.
I hear you. Hope you find a good solution!
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I would start on media files, ideally formats that have a little bit of forgiveness where they'll try to render or play arbitrary sequences of bytes rather than just failing to parse them.
I think you’re romanticizing the prior generation. Sure they could buy a house with a blue collar job, but they weren’t doing that in NYC or other top tier cities and they often lived in much smaller home. Maybe 2bed/1bath 1000 sq ft house for a family of 5.

My entire extended family struggled a lot when growing up in the 50-70s.

It’s easy to look back at those that lucked out and bought a house in a prime location in CA (before it was prime) and say how easy they had it. You’re just ignoring all those people who did the same in Ohio and Michigan and lost their jobs and have houses worth about the same as when they bought it (adjusting for inflation).
It's a gov policy, really: companies get special status, i.e. smaller taxes, if such and such criteria are met.
Where does the marketing campaign fit into your story?
https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
Once again, you misread.

I said their specific reasoning is a mild inconvenience.

And no, funnily enough, I'm unemployed (working on an early stage startup) and my savings are in the low triple digits -- total -- thanks to the pandemic. Might want to start limiting the number of assumptions you make.
Not all OOP languages support inheritance, nor all FP languages are immutable by default, though.

GUI programming surely wasn't retained-mode on 16 bit home computers, in fact that was one of the issues getting used to GUI based OSes event queues back in the day.
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Nice! More than once I’ve gotten my hopes up after seeing screenshots of a spiffy new macOS email client, only to learn that it was Electron-based. At the time, I was using the Gmail web app but searching for a native alternative. Since then, I’ve settled on Apple Mail for the time being, but better Gmail integration is an enticing feature and I’ll definitely be trying Mimestream out.
No, we do not restrict liquidity in any way. We simply believe that companies should be able to engage with "speculators" as you call them differently from long-term investors. Ultimately volatility isn't a problem in itself - it's the effect it has on corporate decision-making that matters.
From what I understand the GDP of Bangalore enriches the federal body more than the state. The state gets money from center based on the population of state as a whole. So the state politicians do not have much skin in the game to try to keep Bangalore sustainable.

Would be happy to be corrected.
Epic's legal position as I understand it is that Apple is behaving illegally and they likely had to break the illegal rule for standing to sue.
My problem with ProtonMail is their requirement to use their bridge software for 3rd party mail apps and their requirement to use only their mobile application.

I get the limitation because of the encryption, but I wish I can just turn off the encryption for specific apps. I don’t need my mail encrypted in flight, I just don’t want it sitting on Google servers. For that ProtonMail is overkill.
> This index has a lot of noise.

I would go even further and state that TIOBE is deprived of any meaningful value. It's basically a index that tracks web noise. I mean with TIOBE, C++'s ranking goes up if someone writes a blog post with a joke that goes "A C++ developer walks into a bar...".

I wouldn't be surprised if this post in HN is contributing to the bump.

TIOBE is what you get from garbage-in.

> I wouldn't put much stock in this and I like C++.

I would bet that C++20 led some bloggers to post random stuff with C++ in it.
I like ReactPHP I've been using a really small project that has a good implementation
of workman.

https://github.com/walkor/phpsocket.io
Google also provides the account contents to the US military intelligence community on demand without a warrant via the PRISM program, so it is impossible to use this program as it exists right now and have private email.

Here’s hoping you can use it with an actually private email service in the future.
Having been there when it all took off, it always feels so wrong to read "C++ code written Java style", when it was C++ that actually created that style.
Flip it around: You're fucking up the browsing experience of 9.4 million people for a minor graphical effect that totally destroys scroll behavior and CPU.

Just use CSS. No one will miss the sticky bar if it doesn't show up on their browser.
So you can buy stocks through the LTSE that aren't listed on the LTSE? If so, why would someone do that?

I think GP's point is that you're saying "we're open for business", but the LTSE isn't offering people who buy stocks any added value yet.