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> It's always about how the Earth is 6000 years old [...] And likewise what came before the big bang?

The mistake here is to treat both of these equally. One is a set of very specific but unsubstantiated claims about the nature of the universe, and the other is a scientific theory supported by observation and models. Since it is way easier to churn out unsubstantiated claims than viable scientific theories, relying on a mindset that gives equal consideration to everything is a surefire way for science to be simply drowned out.

In this specific case, I'd also like to point out that the big bang model does not claim to yield, or is required to yield, information on what came "before". There are multiple hypotheses around for what could have happened, a fundamental part of which is usually a proper definition of what "before" means in this context. Again, none of these are doctrinal claims, they're just a process of finding out more about the universe. Religious claims on the other hand are a method of asserting you already know something.

> While If I were any denominational god, I'd have created the rule set and frameworks for the entire system and then boot it up.

Consider that most religions want people to behave in very specific ways, mostly because deities and their spokespeople say so. The "god" you are describing does not fit into that. You are being very charitable towards religious claims by allowing them to retreat into this generic fold.

On a scientific level, your hypothesis is not immediately contradicted by observation. But it's also not clear how an unsupervised universe would be different from a curated one. If it doesn't really matter to the outcome whether the universe was created intentionally or not, a good bet is to assume the simpler model.

Any such god would themselves have to exist in order to create a universe. They would presumably also have to have had a creator themselves, or have come into existence by natural means. This pushes the problem of the origin of the universe up the chain without necessarily resolving anything. It's not impossible that the universe is such a stack of simulations, and I'd argue it's worth looking into that, but it's not a solution to the question what the root of existence itself is.
> Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?

Go to John Baez's awesome list "How to Learn Math and Physics":

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html

And then to Library Genesis.
Man you scale that up and you have a cool way to cross illegally
That sounds a lot more socialist than just "remotely". According to Wikipedia, it's the defining characteristic of socialism.
> Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

This is by notorious awful tv station Channel 5, and is not paid for by the license fee. (In fairness, it's not amongst their most terrible content; about half of their programming amounts to "Look! Poor people! Haha!", and despite the name this isn't really an example of that.)
I've never heard this in any client meeting and suspect most clients wouldn't take this very well.

Clients are interested in a working product, as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible. It's hard enough already to convince them of the importance of non functionals such as reliability, maintainability and security.
Signal is not available on the f-droid at the time. The Development team claims they have no interest in spending their resources on it.
This giraffe is awesome. I wonder why it is ranked lower than this one: https://paint.wtf/ranking/IdF9/Y8CmWvlELvy1MoSU8Iv3
> But you can’t actually use Bitcoin for anything?

Well, in US and Europe this is certainly true. I've yet to see a reasonably large shop accepting bitcoins. But my vision is blurred by the fact I am living in a wealthy Western country that has a comparably free banking system.

In other parts of the world, South America for example or Asia the situation is difficult for the average Joe to earn savings either due to galloping inflation or tight banking regulations. In those countries street markets are practically run by crypto currencies or derivatives.
IIRC the ECJ ruling is not de-indexing - the requirement is to remove the link from certain search results, ie. when you google for "flowerlad" but not when you google for "greggman hacker news conservation".
The problem with this statement is that not all alcoholic gamblers are poor. So only the poor ones will get treated badly.

Alcoholic gambler is a pretty nice approximation for life in general. For the individual, life is a very complicated gamble where you have no hope of understanding every single bet. The only difference is in complexity.

The poor alcoholic gambler fails at the most basic bets, the average poor human still fails but he is faced with far more complicated bets like choosing a college, degree, job, etc. STEM degrees might be an obvious way to avoid poverty, but not everyone makes it through one or even gets the chance to go to college at all. Even after they finish, the tuition debt can turn a good bet into a bad one very quickly.
Nice idea for a browser extension, actually. HN, make it happen, I'd happily use it! (I'm too lazy or busy too do it myself)
It might work for some of those:

Maps - They massively hiked API prices a couple years ago, literally by orders of magnitude (a kind of breaking change?). They've also broken a bunch of user-facing features and made it slower; it seems a common complaint here that maps now is a worse product than it was 5 years ago.

Search - They seem to have gone all-in on AI, and I've seen a lot of people complaining here that it's now harder to find things than it used to be. Precise queries also no longer work (searching for an exact phrase), a kind of breaking change. They also do a lot more human curation than the competitors, which some would consider a breaking change compared to the past. Even their automated, user-profiling-based curation is a breaking change to how Google originally worked.

Android - If you don't upgrade your Android phone, but do upgrade your OS, you'll find it gets slower and slower, as newer versions consume more and more resources. This is a kind of breaking change, if you don't want to buy a new phone.
In college I was taught Linear Algebra from the operator point of view, rather than with matrices. That way theorems are clearer and the student's understanding is deeper, but for applications it's better to study from the matrix point of view and with lots of examples. Kuttler's book was refreshing in that sense. His other books are excellent, too. If you have been studying pure math (or french-style applied math which is just pure math with a concentration in Analysis) they are a light and fun complementary read.
I agree with your general thesis. However, this line got me thinking:

>It seems impossible to imagine the BBC being truly unbiased

Thought example. If there was a truly objective, unbiased source of information about political and physical reality, wouldn't it be far too valuable to put in charge of a news desk. They should be running the government in place of the parliament and politicians!

Of course, if you find the idea somehow troubling, this is to demonstrate that unbiasedness is actually more difficult concept than is sometimes given credit for.
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>>Of course, a better way may be to introduce new right-to-be-forgotten laws like in the EU.

In combination with flipping Data Ownership laws to where a person owns the data about then, and Right to Know laws where companies are required to (on request) give you all the info they have about you, and allow you to correct that information. Basically expanding on the Credit Rating agencies laws where (in the US) you are entitled to a free credit report and the ability to dispute info.
Sadly, it's pretty hard to change your SSN unless you want potential legal consequences.
"Frequently" IIRC means "every N messages", where N is in the hundreds (if I understand the protocol correctly). So they should last you a while. I also seem to recall that they anonymize IP addresses at the ingress, but that's obviously much easier to roll back or lie about.
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Given that watermarking is so prevalent, journalists may have to begin treating leaked documents and files in the same way they treat anonymous sources. They can reword and refer to a document's contents, but they can't share copies any more than they can share a source's driving license.
And everytime one toggles any setting that's is retained over htop restarts like tree view, the file gets edited. And you get diverging files everywhere. Annoyed me very much. Had to write a custom patch to disable some of it.
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If it helps any, Feedly accepts YouTube channels as valid URLs for feeds. Getting YouTube in an RSS reader is great; now I can keep videos for later simply by keeping them unread, rather than whatever Google's latest UI is.
>I spoke on Constrained maximum entropy methods in an image reconstruction problem.

If only there were TED talks on this instead of their trademark humble-bragging "inspiring" bullshit talks.
> could use some material on the "deeper" side of things

The first few chapters are precisely about the extraction of concrete conserved quantities from symmetries. A sufficiently "russian" reader will be able to see immediately the general case from these very complete examples. Noether's theorem is only missing in name, not in content.

> The typesetting is also a crime against humanity - they should be done similarly to the Feynman lectures, so typed up in LaTeX rather than whatever they are now

The typeseting of the french edition of L&L is extraordinarily beautiful. I'm not sure that is is possible to reach this typographical elegance with freely available LaTeX packages. On the other hand, the re-typed Feynman lectures are a disgrace, and an objectively worsening in quality from the first editions.
The Law of Large Numbers is an actual math theorem. The Law of Averages is a non-technical name for various informal reasoning strategies, some fallacious (like the gamblers fallacy), but mostly just types of estimation that are justified by more formal probability theory.
Industry term is "golden handcuffs".
In this case Signal is passing older relative test flawlessly then :D
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Good summary of the case is given in final appeal court judgement here: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2013/476.html

If look at facts, child was taken from her because:

- in the view of social care workers house condition were not suitable for a child. Interestingly landlord wasn't charged for renting "inhabitable" premises, so the conclusion is that it was actually habitable and possessed no risk to health of wellbeing of people living there. _Even_ if it was that inhabitable, and landlord knowing that called police nevertheless, then why it was put on a single mom to improve living condition, not on a landlord to fullfil his duty to maintain premises? Why council housing wasn't offered to her when council itself found that her living conditions are not up to standard?

- Child was left alone once(!!), peed and pooped itself. There was no evidence of harm caused to her at that moment.

- There are 2 more facts,which contributed decision: she was seen walking drunk on a street barefoot and night noise was reported once.

Looking at that, do you honestly think that separating child from her mother is justified? Do you honestly think that forced adoption was the only (as required by law) option left, council did everything they ought to do? How come giving child to sister (another daughter of Laila who was adult by then) or locating grandparents and allowing child to stay there wasn't considered first?
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Yes, mocking their affinity for free speech.
For the first problem, you need to ensure that you exercise the muscles along with fasting, to nudge the body away from salvaging proteins from muscle tissue. (Not a bio chemist either, this is what I have read in most articles about intermittent fasting)
Out of curiosity, is there any reason you don't mention zip.js at all in the documentation of unzipit?
I say this a lot and I will say it again: Languages that think they're C when in reality they're not make me sad.
Yes. You have to be a Finnish citizen with no income to qualify.

Everyone not participating in the capitalist economy (by owning business or being employed at one) is essentially a government/military reserve employee on indefinite paid leave receiving a budget that covers virtually all living expenses to quite a reasonable standard. And it's baseline, every citizen eligible, other obligations withstanding. You'd have to really make a mess of your life to not live comfortably.

The only downside is, if there's war, I have to give my life for the country. Which, given Finland's history (defensiveness and neutrality), seems like a good deal to me. Most men get actively recalled to military trainings; I've personally been exempt during peacetime.

I could indeed mine bitcoins for free. But that'd be a gross misuse of my time and resources. I'd rather create something meaningful than literally waste electricity just to prove that I have it (the idiotic quality of proof-of-work cryptocurrency).
I'm so sick of people telling me something is using some ridiculous GB of RAM because they've added up all the threads' memory in htop
Do you think it's possible that Air Force One Pilots are instructed to land at unconventional spots on the runway to foil potential threats? Perhaps even to land at different spots on the runway on different landings?

I know it sounds far-fetched, but my mom who was the "Cultural Affairs Officer" at the US Embassy in San Jose Costa Rica was instructed to take a different route from home to the embassy and back every day, and to try to depart at slightly different times each trip. This was in the late 80s when Costa Rica was a relatively safe place (it's even safer today).
There is also the 'NHS approved medication' list that they can only prescribe from, which restricts whats available to you, and it takes years for something newish to make it onto that list (for reasons...)

If you want better options, the only choice in the UK is private healthcare.

But yeah, I do still agree with you - GPs don't seem to even be up-to speed on the latest info with regard to a patients condition - surely their industry requires on-going professional learning like the rest of us ?
To get really accurate terminal emulation, you could get the firmware ROM off a real terminal and build an emulator that executes that firmware.

Someone's started doing that in MAME, for the DEC VT520, although I've never tried running it so don't know how well it works (if at all) – https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers...
Their programmes quite often suffer from both-sidesism. They'll have a senior scientist on debating a conspiracy-theory-believing anti-vaxxer, as if they're both on the same level.
They might feel personal but I'm fairly sure those letters are sent out blanket style. I've had 4 or 5 in the past and none have been addressed to me personally.
It's actually pretty straightforward to do backup and recover with Signal:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
Ask HN: Anyone figure out a good way of programming on the go?
Because of a medical condition, I'm supposed to be walking quite a bit (just standing in place won't cut it). I was wondering if anyone has figured out a good way of programming on the go? I don't think a phone would work because typing/navigating is just too inconvenient. I was thinking something along the lines of using a wireless keyboard (I mostly use Vim) with something like Google glass, but not sure how realistic it would be to get a pair of those. I assume most people just use a treadmill with a laptop, but I can't get a treadmill in my house. I can take my laptop to the gym, but was curious to see if anyone has seen or uses a more convenient approach.
> Democracy isn't so much threatened but actually harmed by the mere existence of centralized power.

What's the essential difference?
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Sure, but most people haven't seen replacements for these things. Most of the discontent I see in politics comes from turning it into a spectator sport, rather than a way of describing the process of communities choosing things through the old organs of social democracy.

But yes, there are new things and they are good. The internet pretty much raised me as a teenager.

RE: pints, think I'd trade a finger for a pint with some good company at the moment. Alas.
Agree, but then I think about how often I actually look back at my message history, and it's extremely rare (essentially never further back than a week). Not sure if I'm an outlier or not, and it's strange in that I'll regularly need to find emails from years back.
Ah thanks for the clarification! I always had the impression it was the Bundesrat\Tag. The compact things confused me. But that makes this whole thing even more robust it seems.
And dont forget the cryptic “safety number has changed” message you get in Signal when somebody else repaces their phone. It freaks out my parents every time. Yeah you can prevent that but most people don’t realize in time.
Arguably one reason those two businesses were successful in areas with entrenched players and business practices was because they handle the money. If AirBnB was asking either travelers or hosts to pay $X to be on a recommendation site, probably very few people would. There's always a cheaper competitor when you're selling information. Because you book through AirBnB, for a service which is relatively expensive, they can skim off quite a lot of money in an opaque way.
That's a rather simplistic view of the matter.

They do coexist is most countries, just in different sectors. When a country collectively owns most of the healthcare means of production and protects it by law (e.g. by requiring emergency ambulances to go to public hospitals), how is that capitalism?
You might be confused because you have, for some reason, interpreted my comment as an attempt to argue against your points.

It was, in fact, a simple statement of information I thought might be useful to people who are not aware of the BBC's podcasts.
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You can work around those resonance points quite well if you know what you are doing, the trick is to realize that the back-EMF around those resonance points can be so high that your stepper is momentarily generating power rather than consuming it. If you try to force it through that point by adding more current then the stepper will stall completely. A properly designed driver that is matched to the load of the stepper will use a complex voltage/current model that will drive the stepper just right to avoid this problem.

This technology originated with the Berger-Lahr company in concert with an Italian driver manufacturer for five phase stepper motors, which were the first to be driven past this resonance point, the tech was then perfected and adapted to other, cheaper steppers as well.
Buried in the comments[1] is a jpg showing the sequence of multiple photos and one of the images has smoke from the tires landing:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTrv2.jpg

It's a fun mental exercise to know that the final answer is landing while reading the answers that forcefully argue that the plane is taking off. Some of the "evidence" to support that the plane is taking off is very persuasive.

[1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34586/is-this-p...
I see this “mainly to prevent uprisings” idea asserted in lots of places but it strikes me as highly cynical. What’s the evidence this is the case? Even if a social policy was first introduced in response to uprisings, that doesn’t demonstrate that simply quelling the uprising was its sole purpose then, and it certainly doesn’t mean that’s the reason for its continued existence now
In the UK I'd say the answer is probably that you can't as easily divert funds to a private Tory owned business by simply adding TV licence costs to taxes.

IIRC it's Capita who collect the money and keep a remarkably high proportion of it. They're also employing people to lie and intimidate to try and get access to homes.
1. Make photo storage free, forever!

2. Kill all competitors

3. "It's not cost effective for this to be free, new captive google users."
Just to nitpick your numbers a bit. 6MW, while a lot of power, is still a lot less than your average nuclear reactor, even a small one (The reactors on the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle are 150MW each), and Hydro schemes are often in the thousands of MW.

In fact, many single offshore wind turbines are capable of generating a lot more than 6MW. GW's Haliade-X tubines have an output of 13MW each.
I'm in Germany as well, and bank to bank transfers across Europe (not just Germany) usually take either 1-2 seconds (when both banks support SEPA Instant) or a few hours otherwise.

Both methods are significantly cheaper (usually free) than Bitcoin transaction fees at the moment. As a concrete example, EUR withdrawals from Coinbase to a SEPA bank account are both faster and cheaper than BTC withdrawals to a wallet at this point.

If a transfer takes any more than two full business days (IIRC), one of the banks involved is out of SEPA compliance.

The only thing that _really_ slows down bank to bank transfers is when your payment gets flagged for review for security or compliance reasons, but arguably, both also benefit you (as a customer not wanting to lose money or a citizen not wanting to indirectly cover the effects of somebody else's tax evasion or money laundering). In my experience, this also happens very rarely, but performance of this can vary from bank to bank.
I have not set any PINs.
That is exactly what it does. This is also a setup that will work fine, but it is actually much closer to how a servo would operate and negates quite a bit of the cost difference due to the far more expensive drivers, with encoders and current sensing on the stepper wires.

The encoders will tell you when to increase power because you're about to miss a step, the expected movement is lagging compared to the amount of input current. The current sensing will help you to detect tool strike situations before damage is done to the motors due to overcurrent.
You don't have to be around computer with your phone, just connected to internet. I opened whatsapp webui on my Linux computer (via vnc) in the USA while sitting in Germany on my phone.
Wasn't the someone who dismissed Dropbox when they first launched Steve Jobs?
My uninformed intuition would be that trying to land the plane differently each time would introduce more risk than it would protect against (and what threats would it even protect against?).
If a technical article/blog, and thus assuming one has some technical understanding and cares sufficiently to spend 10 minutes per day maintaining it, why not setup a VPS and brand it under yourself (or company) which I'd imagine is well worth the $5 per month that Linode, DO, or others charge.
I liked that section a lot but I want a jumping off point. I don't think symmetries of the action or groups are discussed, IIRC.

I may have been a little vague when I said typesetting - the actual typesetting is a bit dull but the thing that is a disgrace, I should clarify, is that the fonts are terrible, and the text has that "Cheap Dover book" print quality (not far off a good typewriter).