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A physicist, a mathematician and a programmer are in a car driving on a windy mountain path. All of a sudden as they round a corner, the brakes fail. After a few terrifying moments, the car skids to a halt and they emerged unscathed.

The physicist thinks for a second, and says "It must be the lower pressure due to the air, it's made some of our brake fluid evaporate, we should get some more brake fluid before we get back in the car." The mathematician says "No if we calculate the rate of a evaporation we'd never lose that much. It must be a leak in the lines. We should fix the leak before we get back in" The programmer says "Let's get back in the car and see if it's reproducible."
Business Activity Monitoring (Bam) – Serverless360
Business activity monitoring (BAM) in Serverless360 enables end-to-end tracking across Azure resources and hybrid integrations.
Correction: chapter 4 is in the printed book. On the web site, it's found at http://policyrouting.org/iproute2-toc.html. The links from the other chapters of the web site don't work but browsing the ToC of the book, it looks like this link on the web site has all the info from the book plus a bit more...
This. As far as we're aware, physics doesn't understand narrative, and doesn't see any difference between killing a person, moving a gun or even disturbing a speck of dust: all entail things being in the wrong place compared with the original timeline.

You might expect some similarities on a macro scale regardless: perhaps if you kill baby Hitler, Germany can still be expected to end up with a different right wing leader who invades Poland, perhaps even assisted by people who were prominent Nazis in our time, and maybe even loses to the same allies for the same reasons. But on a micro level the differences are huge: the dates will be different, people dying will be different, and the rest of the twentieth century will be different. A century of different atoms bumping into different atoms, different sperm are getting to the front of different queues, and different people being influenced into different decisions results in a different world. Our would-be time traveller isn't even born, never mind motivated to look for Ms Schiklgruber's illegitimate child.
Ask HN: What is your one song?
Hey HN, what is the one song for you that you always gravitate towards when you need to calm your mind, ready or psych your self, overcome a feeling or any of the other multitudes of reasons humans listen to music?
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is the opposite.

One reason for trading with coins rather than raw metals at this time was that minted coins coins could be expected to contain a standardised weight and metal mixture, as long as the mint managed to curtail forgeries. If someone gave you a gold coin, the imprint of the mint gave you a guarantee it actually was pure gold (rather than a cheaper mixture of gold and silver, as an example).

The problem with forgeries was that forgers made their money by minting coins that weighted less or contained cheaper metals, and then passing them off as genuine.

If this goes on for long enough, the coinage deteriorates, since the large amount of fake coins in circulation means that a coin could no longer be expected to contain its specific value in precious metal.

Lindybeige (youtuber) talks specifically about this at around 13 minutes in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2paSGQRwvo
It has all the features you need to support pretty much anything
There are one or two projects like postal[1] or mailbox[2] that make it much easier than it was before.

[1] https://github.com/postalhq/postal

[2] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
To start, I have had a fairly regular tradition over a couple of years to listen to 'Stellardrone - Breath in the light' each morning with my coffee as a way of focusing my mind.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...

A classi one by Anton van Straaten that is both funny and wise.
But, usually*, people do not re-watch the same film more than once or twice (except when you like it very, very much :) ).

I usually listen to a song multiple times each day.
Because it is full-featured editor running fully in text mode (so you can run it on the remote server or over a serial line) and uses short commands for most text edit needs. In comparison nano provides only very basic feaures (like Notepad) and emacs (according to Stallman) is like an operating system with more complicated keyboard shortcuts. Of course you can run VisualStudio Code over VPN but that would waste too much network traffic and the input would lag more.
A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral
I think Lua is easier for beginners. What I really like about Solar2D is that you can build simple things from scratch with only a few lines of code. And you don't have to think about the editor/studio that comes with Defold.
> They are not very original in their music and lyrics. Or simply not very good. Or very good for a small niche.

Even if you're very good, it's a gamble; almost all celebrity stories contain the element that they simply met the right person or were in the right place at the right time. And fame doesn't correlate with how good you really are; there are various famous musicians who aren't technically good at all, but got their breakthrough for some other reason. So it is almost impossible to plan a successful career a priori or to estimate its chances of success. Just like in a game of chance.
' Those who went in with "I've heard there's some good money there" are getting disappointed'

This is true, but I think it's also more of the "I hear you can make SOME money there" or "I hear you can live on the money you make there" which is the point. You can't.

I am a musician and all of the guys I played with over 30+ years had main jobs alongside their gigging. There would be no way to afford it otherwise, and that was when CDs were being sold. The streaming issue has only made this worse, which is the point in question (is it a valid payout?), not whether every single artist can be a millionnaire.

It is also interesting about "selling their soul" because a lot of fans believe "their" band hasn't sold out and is doing it solely for the love of music - they never are. They might enjoy what they're doing ("do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life") but they would cease touring and recording if they were making £0.00. Even all the "alternative" bands were signed to labels and relied on distribution; they just promoted an image of not "playing the game" like everyone else, and being "alternative" even though they never were. It's an odd mindset people get when looking at bands and somehow believing that the musicians somehow lived without money and did their art solely for the love of the art.
Training Muscles Without Equipment
Hi,

I've come across this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854523 and decided to share with you website I stumbled upon a few years ago. I can see in comments that some people asking for guidance in case of lack of equipment. I hope you will find it useful.

Enjoy.
Well, I can at least tell for sure that I’m on Hacker News, now. :)
Didn't everyone design one of these while doodling on the back of a notebook while bored in third grade? Several of my classmates came up with more plausible designs... If it takes three engines' thrust to take off vertically, one engine won't be able to land vertically, even if we ignore the only-recently-solved-now control issues.
This really got me thinking.

Does anyone know of any great sci-fi stories centered around the lengths the universe goes to to prevent a curious time traveler from testing the grandfather paradox.
The government incentives were clearly going to result in private-island driven dinosaur experiments. If the incentives had been to welcome such genetic experimentation in a controlled manner then regulators would have noticed the predatory behaviour of the velociraptors before it became a problem.

Again, it's about risk/incentive management, not about judging those who dare to go too far. The T-Rex will eat you even as you shake your fist at its unethical re-creator. Better to not merely hope that everyone chooses the friendliest route by virtue of human nature.
How far does sound travel in the ocean?
I have a short story for this!

My solution to "where are all the time travelers" is that we are unable to correct for motion, we send people in the past but they end up million of kilometers away in space.

So the past is perfectly accessible, but we can't get to any useful spacetime coordinate.
More fundamentally, energy is a conserved quantity because the laws of physics are time invariant. See Noethers theorem and gauge symmetries.
This looks really aweful. Wall of text without any punctuation marks to make it readable is just horrible to follow. The least they could at are colons to divide syntax from content.
Message to Mods: Add "Show HN" to the title as it is dev's post.
Analogous to programming, the average joke-teller just isn’t that funny, making 10x more achievable.

“Think of a comedian.” There probably isn’t a 10x that comedian for you.

“Find the first person to tell you a joke live next week; considering them as a proxy for average, there is almost surely a 10x comedian out there.”
You might find PM Starter Pack useful
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Given the sibling comment "It's even worse. It's uninstalled when upgrading macOS." does it also give a way of monitoring emulation usage without violating privacy too much?

"X% of machines have installed Rosetta on this version of MacOS" would be a useful number without measuring the specific executions.
Such a well rounded changelog! https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.11/tcltk-...

I love seeing UTF and timezone updates for projects, it means they care about the solid boring work that makes a system complete.

*edit, even the homebrew version has been updated already and the install counts are much higher than I expected.

==> Analytics
install: 278,216 (30 days), 304,234 (90 days), 388,089 (365 days)
install-on-request: 8,659 (30 days), 16,955 (90 days), 59,716 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)
I've seen reasoning elsewhere along the following lines:

Because there is a stronger economic incentive in Middle Eastern countries compared to western countries, more women go into STEM fields.
"Blaming the clinics doesn't work" - I trying to wrap my head around to put myself in your frame of mind to shift the blame from who is to blame to the government. If those clinics recommend and perform unnecessary procedures on people that can afford them (and do not benefit from govt. aid), does "blaming the clinics not work", because the actual problem is people being able to afford it? or would you go one step ahead and then say that the government is still to blame for allowing the possibility of wealth accumulation by individuals that results in unnecessary spending? or is the government still to blame because of not further regulating and auditing dental clinics? or is the government to blame because of allowing the mere existence of private dental clinics?

I guess that the government did not "set things up so that the rise of clinics to exploit the rules was legal and inevitable". I am going to guess that individuals, knowing that that was not the intention of the government aid, decided they could get around it to profit.

edit: typos
Nice article, thanks for posting :-)
E7 – QnA Live – App Development, Future Plans, Social Media – 2020
They can't selectively release Firefox. If 5% of machines have AV, then the new version of Firefox wouldn't have worked for 5% of machines. That's far too high a failure rate to release.
>When they can make more money elsewhere they will leave.

Why is your local government putting so much effort into making it a tech fish trap? Yeah they will leave but only when your ability to trap them is gone. That's on you and your city. Stop blaming victims of your trap.
Does refresh cleanup the rot, or you need a real reinstall?
I have the same opinion since starting from Pico8 (Lua) and then trying to expand beyond it into larger projects. Lua was surprisingly worse than early Javascript and even more barebones.

The weird amount of hype for Lua is probably due to the great projects in spite of it, like LOVE and Pico8, and the fact that Lua never makes it very far past weekend hobby state for most people so there's never any real counterbalancing force of people fed up with it.
Datalegreya: Interweave Text and Data
Is a there containerised module on the market yet? It seems a good fit.
I spent more than that since I have closer to 1000 albums. Never spent a penny on Spotify though. I didn't like the audio quality when I heard my friends (who strangely insisted on some amazing speaker, and then played grubby audio quality through the speaker...)
Why would you want to go to college, have huge debt and learn things (CS) that's avaliable on the internet for free? even courses from an actual edu institutions like mit, stanford and so on

The only thing I think is knowning people from the industry and seeing what cool stuff other people do, but otherwise?

I just graduated with engineering degree that I've done on weekends while working full time as SE and I'd never want to go on normal schelude (where I attend college on work days instead of 4days/month) because it'd be straight up waste of the time, but when they'd additionally require me to pay tens of thousands of usd for this, then holy shit.

The difference would be when it would be top country CS like top1, top2, top3, top(1+some), but below that?

What's the point of paying mad cash for basics of CS? just for the title? just for the diploma?

I don't believe that not obtaining higher edu is a good choice, but there's so many things that sounds poor about it.
> that's the free market in action

Government paying for things is not the free market in action.
MLOps: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Implement It
A byte tells his wife "Honey, I'm not feeling too well - I think I have a parity error".

She replies "I thought you looked a bit off!"
Like a flu... but with all the differences.

A bike is like a car. It has wheels and you ride it from point A to B.

> While the true mortality of COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand, the data we have so far indicate that the crude mortality ratio (the number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower. For seasonal influenza, mortality is usually well below 0.1%. However, mortality is to a large extent determined by access to and quality of health care.

> While the range of symptoms for the two viruses is similar, the fraction with severe disease appears to be different. For COVID-19, data to date suggest that 80% of infections are mild or asymptomatic, 15% are severe infection, requiring oxygen and 5% are critical infections, requiring ventilation. These fractions of severe and critical infection would be higher than what is observed for influenza infection.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

And aside from that, a large problem with covid-19 is the DDoS on the health care system stemming from the severe infection rates, which can create large second order effects.
Yeah, the TinyPICO has everything you'd want for building your own IoT device (e.g. a smart switch) but at $20 you might as well buy a pre-made device for the same price. If they could get the price down a bit more it could hit a real sweet spot. Still an awesome board though, kudos to them.
Fair enough if that is your experience but I don't recognise that at all. My parents (as English people) moved to North Wales and people have been extremely warm and welcoming to them and also to me whenever I have visited. There is some beautiful scenery and the many of the towns are also very run down. This problem is likely to get worse in the next few years as the development funding the region was getting from the EU will now cease due to brexit.

I love these photos and there is a lot of truth in them. I myself have taken some amusingly bleak photos on the British coastline although clearly not as amazing as these.
There isn't any significance to the fact that it's a root beer, right? That was slightly distracting. I wonder if this would be cleaner if it was a 7-up.

Do people make 7-up floats?
Here is the problem with rent control: Politicians implement rent control and consider the problem solved but it isn't. Public housing is the solution and rent control is a hack to let you skip on public housing. There might be communities that have both but that's just proving the point. Rent control did nothing. It's the public housing that did it.
This was the original:

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.

- Introduction by Adriaan van Wijngaarden at the IFIP Congress (1965). (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth)
> Why does anyone really care about non-free firmware blobs?

I'll have a stab at this.

I suspect it's an argument about simplicity. Debian has drawn a very simple and clear line in the sand: everything in its main archive is truly open source. Simple lines are easy to reason about, easy to defend and easy to explain. Bright simple lines are a wonderful defence against slippery slopes and weaselly pragmatic arguments for weakening them. They should not be given up likely.

It didn't help that the original posts in this Debian discussion boiled down to making all non-free software easily available on install media. In other words initially, it wasn't just non-free firmware blobs, it was all non-free software being allowed to cross that line in the sand. Doing that would almost be an admission Debian's core moral compass wasn't workable in the real world.

That would be dismal if it was true (for me at least). Happily it's not true, as it turns out it's only the binary firmware blobs that are indispensable for the install. It took a while for that to be uncovered and acknowledged in the thread.

Once that was recognised the point you make here, that firmware blobs are a special case, was made even more strongly in the Debian thread and repeated in the LWN article. Extending the point you make here, I reckon Debian could draw a pretty bright line around firmware blobs that kept them firmly separated from other non-free software. If most DD's were convinced that line will hold, I'd say there is a reasonable chance they'd allow such blobs alongside the true open source software on their install media.

But that is a long road to hoe. It would involve expanding the current 3 categories of software, "free, contrib and non-free" to four - perhaps with the addition of "foreign". The political battles it would involve aside, they are hardwired into god knows how many places. non-free firmware blobs creating that amount of work is itself a good reason to care about them.
The role of government in free markets is as guarantor of rights.
It still doesn't reduce the initial price/cost of the film simply because you choose to watch it only once. You still paid a reasonable price for it, and can rewatch it many many many times if you want.

This isn't the same with the music cost - you paid a tiny amount; they made a tiny amount of money - that's the unsustainable bit.

I'm the opposite to you - I will watch a film a few times, but only if I enjoyed it (as you said). I don't listen to the same song multiple times per day, let alone multiple times per week.
I'd still recommend a SVG graph behind an outlined text instead of this.

The work is impressive though.
Great article. My take on it:

- Metrics give everyone a false sense of objectivity. If you actually look at any stats in depth, you will end up making decisions about what to measure, and what the numbers mean. These words are actually the most important part of any study, but are always left out in favor of the graph. Want to know how many people died of covid? You need to consider things like population adjusted deaths. And adjustment for age. And a a whole host of other things to do with how the data was collected, and how it was presented. The economic side is even more messy. How much would GDP have been if we'd done this or that? There's no number that's the answer, but we do need numbers.

- You'll always care about more metrics than one. There's no generally objective way to decide how to weight those. You might have a utility function that decides this, thus reducing the problem to a simple optimization, but the guns/butter balance has still got to come from some kind of value that you express.

- The big question is rules vs discretion. You set up an elaborate measuring system (eg GDP) and you imagine that you have certain levers that you can move in response to whatever situation occurs. Part of this is that actors expect you to behave a certain way. But what happens if something you thought would work mechanically doesn't behave like you thought? Should you move your levers contrary to your previous commitment?

- Finally, there are the unmeasurable sensations. You have a team, it feels wrong somehow. You talk to people, get opinions, you get a feel for what is wrong. None of it is something you found in your LOC/user summary, or CI pipeline fails, or whatever.
Russet is another old color word
Housing markets aren't broken. It's the location itself. Stop trying to think of the market as its own thing where you can just pull some levers. Instead you have to think about how the real world is broken and the market is just a summary of how broken it is.
This one was recently on the HN front page:

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/users-lightbulb.en.html

HN-Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25369929
I bet that future Raspberry Pi boards will have a RP2040 or successor chip onboard, to do the bit banging/realtime jobs on the I/O port.

Or they will even integrate it into their SOC.

Shame though, that they didn't make the IO ports 5V capable. It's nowadays pretty common for microcontrollers that are meant for industrial and automotive use to have a separate supply for the I/O ports, that can go up to 5V, independent from the core/peripheral voltage.

The main use is to drive (logic-level) MOSFETs directly, interface to 5V buses like SENT, CAN, etc. without having to use level shifters.
I appreciate it!

This was the first website I have used for a while that I didn't need to adjust my uMatrix to get full functionality.

Do you have a way of donating? I feel bad that ads are being blocked.
something like fully facing reality and not demanding that it be other than it is

Which is nowadays reinvented as mindfulness, if I understand correctly.
This books is so appropriate here: https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870...
How to manage 1000 API specs at Target.com
The unreasonable ecological cost of cryptoart
Telegram. Best features there. The bots have given that place a whole web eco system. Google search bot, youtube downloader bot, drive manager bot, movie bits and channels, game bots, music bots, lyrics bots, bots that let you chat with anonymous random people, groups of up to 200,000 members, group management bots, multi platform compatibility, and a bucket load more
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Yeah I fail to see anything addressed at all.

Just fluff words and old sci fi trope.

How is this presented as something published in a peer reviewed journal.

Is the article completely misrepresenting the research or is the research itself this level of nonsense.

I must be missing something here.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that (if it applies here) people don't like talking about the pre-European origins of flaws in economics? Or is there a better example in another area?
Well looks like you just leaked Boston Dynamics' next product.