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I do agree text wins when it comes to expressiveness. However, that expressiveness comes at a cost, just look how difficult it is for beginners to grasp the initial concepts of programming.

I've seen some people pick up this medium very quickly, and others struggle for months with little progress. However, almost anyone can pickup Sketch or Illustrator for creating UI prototypes very quickly.

The expressiveness of text is not always a strength. It's very hard to build programming languages without text, but I strongly believe we still program too much when building UIs. Excel demonstrates that people can quickly pickup a minimal programming language for connecting data to UI, I think an Excel-Sketch hybrid is where the future lies for building applications in particular.
A Model 3 can reach the 600km range, and that is certainly cheaper than hydrogen cars. And the price is constantly going down.
> It is a terrifying dip into a government program devoted to psychological warfare.

Yikes.-
> If they get bought by Facebook or Twitter for billions then that’ll confirm it for me.

Facebook is apparently building a ClubHouse competitor

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/facebook-build...
Rust made me realise the truth in this. Using a sound type system wisely removes a whole class of things that can go wrong.

It can be exhausting to use if you never learned how to use it, but if you got the hang of it, you can program more freely because reasoning about what is going wrong becomes easier.
And that doesn't even include transport, storage and distribution losses for power to liquid.
Thanks for pointing this out, as it can be surprising to be asked one's address and full first names. This is not just a petition but actually a legal tool and it makes a big difference. Entirely worth it in order to stand united as citizens and demand the EU doesn't go the way of say, China, with mass surveillance and all the dystopian stuff that can arise from it (to remain with China's example: giving citizens social scores and giving them more or less rights depending on that).
The petition is to regulate not to outright ban it, it’s in the first 2 paragraphs of the petition. Biometrics in a passport may be one of the cases allowed under that law.
Content needs to be clustered by technology. Python 2 answers are different from Python 3. One way would be to archive older definitively answered questions and allow new questions to be flagged for the newer release, such as Python 3. Wherever there were breaking changes, answers become invalid for the newer technology. Flagging every question by year would be the easy way. Any question prior to ES6 release would be legacy JavaScript, for example.
That and regenerating health quickly are the superpowers from The Long Dark that I long for. It's a videogame, and it does have a can't sleep if not tired enough mechanic, but you can just go to bed exactly when wanted and it's restful (when warm enough, and with water and food buffered).
That's not really a problem with electric car manufacturers going forward. There's only going to be two standards: Tesla's proprietary one, and, CCS that everyone else agreed to standardize on.
Because graphical programming are just textual programming languages which are just overly complex (xml) and coming with attached visualization engine for its components. They are used only for limited domains such as composing some data flows or video node editors, etc. because visualization of anything more sophisticated would make one's head explode. You could just as well visualize components of AST of Python for very little benefit.

The only upside of graphical languages is that because of their limited capabilities, they focus on only one abstraction layer and that allows you to visualize that layer quite cleanly.

You can't program anything more sophisticated or step outside of the only abstracrion layer you are allowed to program in. Eg. you can't write your custom for loops by dragging and dropping boxes and you also cannot orchestrate dags or box diagrams using dragging other boxes around.
Give it 5 ore 10 years and children will have to wear it at all times during school, you know, for their own safety.
I live in a mostly socialist country, that's part of the former soviet block. I always get angry when I read about the benefits of socialism, because it's 90% bullshit for everyone not in the low classes of society (and mostly bullshit for them too).

> holiday
If you earn significantly more, you can just take unpaid vacation. Also, quite a lot of companies voluntarily offer more paid vacation days.
On the other hand, I have 20+ days off, but can't afford to go to any interesting place.

> maternity leave
New mothers can have up to 3 years break from work, except this means that there's rampant discrimination against women of child bearing age.

> public spaces
What do you mean by this?

> tax incentives
That 99% of population can't take advantage of.

> tuition
University is not free in the UK either. From what I found quickly, in-state tuition in public US universities is comparable to tuition in England.

> healthcare
Left my favorite to the last. Yeah, it's free. But need to get something done?

- Want a hip replacement? 219 to 1300 days.
- Need a radiofrequency ablation? 42 to 279 days.
- Have to get your tonsil removed? 57 to 609 days.
- Have a gallstone? 109 to 469 days.

The numbers are not a typo, nor did I cherry pick them, just the first random numbers for the website that tracks them. So yeah, it's free, but you absolutely get what you pay for: shit.

Now please, tell me, how good socialism is :)
I have the same issue. I guess it might be due to my adblocker . It feels like it lowers the credibility of the initiative.
you'd have to control the domain DNS MX records. most registrars allow this unless you have an email package attached. i doubt these template sites allow for such control if your site is just a subdomain of theirs
It seems that Porches are going the way of mechanical watches -- i.e. complicated, anachronistic, expensive, and through that somehow prestigious, high status etc.
LLVM Front End Tutorial
Indeed, it is not possible to use Google translate without running a remote script. However, this is not justified from a technical point of view as far as I know.
If I were to guess, the downvotes stem from the suggestion that changing one's email provider to a specific other one is supposed to be a reasonable way to combat tracking pixels.

It's kinda like suggesting moving to fix a leaky pipe.
Using some online calculators, the overall tax rate on $500k / £360k actually works out to be exactly the same. But that is before property taxes in the US, although not counting any exemptions (more difficult to compare pensions allowances that you would pay out of gross salary etc.). Also not counting total cost to employer, which could well be higher in the UK.

But seems like overall it would work out to be about the same. Certainly not a huge difference in tax levels.
Immortality (in minds of pissed off relatives), here I come!
It's actually moving away from that. It will be just be a settlement layer in 10 years.
generally organizations that use tools that are illegal do so because they are criminal organizations or structurally placed in their bureaucracy to be above the law. If biometric surveillance is illegal on the EU level I believe it is clear that national police organizations will not be structurally above the law, and as such they will not be using those tools.

There is of course the fact that some police organizations will do so and try to hide it, but they will at that point be able to be punished when caught because they will not be above the law.
Voice fingerprinting (ideally done locally) would also pretty much solve the issue.
That essentially boils down to the color of the bits. In other words, what git log says is a different bit color (technical) from what the EULA (legal) says, and you can't meaningfully use the legal-colored bits in a technical context and vice versa. In other words, if it breaks, you get to keep all the nasty pieces, not the company, because the EULA says so.

("colored bits" metaphor is from this seminal essay: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 )
In context the comment is about simulating the conditions physically, hence discussion of vacuum chambers and aircraft.
Where would that be? In Europe electric charging has been standardized to Type2/CCS. So any electric car can charge at any charging spot.
am i the only one who find their examples really bad? couldn't they find actual, real examples?

anyway, this is 50/50 for me.

i can see the issues, but i can also see the positive effects.

regardless, this tech has been in use for a while now and crimes still happen, terrorism still happens etc. nothing has really changed.

but i think the big potential changes might come from being a bit more pro-active and identifying individuals with issues and providing the necessary help. for example at risk youth or anti-social behaviour. if you could pre-empt that or quickly identify the people involved then this should be a great way to make society a better place.
Passports are not used to track me without me knowing about it. I can restrict the places where I present my actual physical passport to borders and interactions with my government.

Interactive ad billboards with a camera in them? Not much I can do about those except deface them with a sticker. CCTV? Can't do anything about that.

I'm not against security cameras per se, but I want them watched and judged by human beings, not algorithms (and ad billboards should not record me at all).
I have the same drift. I did notice that for me traveling and experiencing new things can sometimes break the spell for a few days.
Model 3 that can reach 580 km costs about 2.5 Volkswagen Golfs.
> But why would they? If they had to pay warehouse workers twice as much, what makes you think they wouldn't try to automate away even more jobs?

Good. We should automate away more jobs. More automation means people can work less hours, get more sleep, and pursue things that do not provide direct financial rewards but still enrich society. This is what we should be working towards.

The only problem with that is if the value of that automation only enriches a few people at the top. But that is not an inherent problem. The solution is simple: progressive income and wealth taxes. These can pay for universal basic income and other safety nets that provide for the people whose jobs have been replaced with automation.
Thanks for the extra info.
> Behind paywall

Tip: if you contact the author(s) of a paper that is of interest to you and ask for a version of it, there's a good chance that they'll gladly accommodate. I think generally authors don't even have any financial benefit if you pay for the paper (it all goes to the publisher).
I feel like we may have had completely different undergrad structures from reading your other comments in this thread. I took my CS degree in the CS department of a liberal arts Uni, and so had a bunch of optional arts credits to fulfill along with some amount of science and then a bunch of specific CS courses.

Having had a glipse of a CS degree that's part of another school's engineering department, I believe their structure is more rigid, and specifically detailed for 4 years.
I think the more important market will be aviation and military applications, where mass and volume are more constrained. e.g. the US military has been plowing money into synthetic fuel for decades, and EU countries are targeting 30% of aircraft fuel being synthetic or biomass by 2030.
How badly are your homes insulated that you get internal=external temperature in mere hours???
All of that is irrelevant. Someone wants to send me a message. That message may or may not be legitimate. There is nothing in the contract of messaging someone by email that says that I have to reply in any way, be it with an answer or with tracking information. There is in particular nothing that says that my email-reading software should go behind my back and send information back to the sender of the message. If it did that, I'd be furious.

What you are suggesting does not fit in the medium of email, independent of the legitimacy or intentions of the sender.
Maybe the idea is that eventually someone integrates the knowledge from the comments into the answer, making the answer better and the comments redundant maybe. But if that's the case, that's communicated not nearly clearly enough.
How can I be sure HyperGH 14X is safe for me?
Ctrl+c skips the whole cannot resolve hostname thing iirc.

Linux users: don’t try to run freebsd as you would run linux... Than you’ll see why it is so different...
I'm reminded of a story I heard where someone responded to news of a death in the family with what they took to be a crying face, but what the recipients took to be a crying laughing face.
We already have those (with a gasoline back-up) - they're called plug-in hybrids.
> A quick tap/squeeze is the social signal.

It does leave room for improvement. Perhaps some visual signal that shows that you can hear your surroundings clearly would be better.
What do you mean by "derivative works are exempt from copyright claims" ?

Standard language is copyright law around the world includes essentially "The owner of copyright has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize derivative works based upon the copyrighted work", there are various more specific details that may apply and change that, but the default scenario is that derivative works definitely require blessing from the copyright owner.
Transportation has propably the highest negative impact, paper is aheavy bulk product after all. Animal impact, i would say comparativley low. We are talking about decades old economic forests here (there are of course exception which should be prosecuted to the fullest where ever possible). In Europa at least, these activities are not having any more negative impact on wild life. Again, these are not age old natural forestsanymore and haven't been for quite a while.

I am not saying pushing the catalogue to digital is a net negative, no idea how that could even be reliably quantified. Just that paper and print production is by no means as negative to the environment as is believed.
Show HN: How I Structure Styled-Components
Haha, got me, I was just picking any "year used to name a language version" suffix at random, without realizing what corner of computing history this one is associated with. Is there anbody from that era who didn't have their own ALGOL?
Meanwhile the Biden administration decided to pull back any restrictions on TikTok in the US.
Is “fake it till you make it” a viable business strategy? Do you really get hired more if you write Distributed Crypto AI Systems into your resumee?
Transparency Report Mailbox.org 2020
There's a successful Windows app called VoiceAttack that will let you use voice instead of controls ingames.
They also offer voice packs spoken by famous actors that are popular. Having Kirk's voice update you on the status of your space ship is enticing.
Maybe the GP has a job that means that they can't comfortably give some specifics. However, literally every GCP and AWS customer engineer that I have been on a call with says "you can use these models out of the box for any application and they will just work". Also, all of my competitors are saying "ML is democratized you just plug the models in, the cost of your project will be 3 engineers for eight weeks from India/Ukraine/Brazil". The problem is that this is leading to unnecessary failures of the technology both because it means that many projects that should not be attempted are being attempted and are doomed to fail, and on the other hand it means that projects that could work if done right are failing unnecessarily. This is burning investment capital and good will all over the place. In my opinion educating the market is essential : any dolt can wire together a demo that does 80% of what's needed, sales people can use that to convince the customer that the outcome will be a project that costs in at 30% of the value and delivers 110% (they are sales, so maths is not important to them) but delivering that project requires technical insight, competence, structure and professionalism. All of which are in short supply.
> Since people are already weary of clicking the unsubscribe link and instead casually mark everything as spam, every little bit towards keeping your reputation counts.

I'm always looking for the super hidden unsubscribe button. I don't move to spam. But sometimes I get mails without even subscribing, and that is far worse.
As have too many others. It fills me with the same sadness as deforestation.
These new IDE's are disgusting, real men use only Vim.

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And to elaborate on this

Larp = live action role playing. Where you act as your character, as opposed to table-top role playing, where you say what your character does.
Gah, I (UK citizen) was just about to sign this... then remembered that the UK is no longer in the EU :(

One of the reasons I'd wanted to remain in the EU is that, where privacy regulations are concerned, I trust the EU more than our own government.
Using the IKEA and Argos (RIP 2020) catalogues, my mum was still able to browse for furniture and household stuff independently at the age of 92. She doesn't have broadband or any digital device; she's also deaf and doesn't have much manual dexterity. It now adds shopping to the long list of interactions such as public services, banking, healthcare, that she now has to do by proxy. Print, post (and even payphones) provided universal access to services for her generation where a one-off transaction cost pennies and required no contract, no device, not even a bank account (via postal order).
Ask HN: Why are we still so bad a weather forecasting?
Feels like an accurate hourly rain forecast is not too much to ask for in 2021.
Why is it that it's sometimes off by a whole day?
Is it lack of computing power? Unsophisticated models? Is it that the "measuring stations" are in specific locations, and you can't really generalize that to the whole city? Will we ever get to an accurate hourly (minute?) rain forecast?
Yet they do-the-tesla trick and present the product as fully SDV. Disingenuous to the point of fraud: "here's a car in public traffic, with nobody at the wheel, nudge nudge [small print: it's level 2 and you get to clean up all those nasty pieces, nothing to do with us at all, you're only supposed to run it in tightly controlled, isolated private environment]"
Not sure what Tesla is using in the US, but in Europe, they are using Type 2/CCS. Most Superchargers are CCS now (they used DC on Type 2 before and Tesla submitted that as a standard proposal, but the industry went for CCS for DC charging)
> reasoning about null is trivial in comparison

So trivial that its creator called it the "billion dollar mistake" and if I had $1 for every NPE I saw in production I'd be a rich man.
>> After waiting for about 5 minutes I gave up and decided to try out the Raspberry Pi 4

There seem to be quite a lot of posts where people 'try' out FreeBSD in a very superficial or largely inappropriate way. I'm a long-time FreeBSD user (20+ years) and it excels for stable operational *server* use-cases - trying it out as a user workstation for a few hours/days and complaining that the installer is text-based, the desktop environment is less polished, or performance is a few %-age points less than Linux on an artificial benchmark completely misses the point and isn't really helpful - if you want a simple rock-solid server operating system running it is great but you get the benefit in the long-term not immediately.
It does not take PhD and rocket science for one to figure that sometimes operations must be bunched and executed with success/failure as a single unit. That would come as a business requirements. For curious person it would not take much to do some search on a subject and discover and read about transactions.
Except that often the sandboxed apps are also a nuisance to work with. They don't pick up themes from the desktop, keyboard shortcuts don't work anymore (if you have e.g. set some global shortcuts), exchanging data with other programs can be a pain as well...
Yes, but no. Nuclear power plants are extremely costly because they lack prefabrication-level standardization. This is the main cost driver. And this is simply because there's no economies of scale. Because we're not building enough. Classic vicious cycle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The captcha worked (after two tries), but on clicking SUPPORT the form vanishes and I get no feedback at all. No idea if this worked or not.

This website looks untested with Firefox and an ad-blocker, which really is not uncommon for people worried about privacy.
France's has not an homogeneous and hard coded opinion about "laicité". The current opinion of Emmanuel Macron about "laicité" has more probably to do with choosing the best strategy for the upcoming elections. In a different, less polarized electoral environment, he would probably state a different opinion.

He was baptized a Roman Catholic by his own request at age 12, and he was educated mainly at the Jesuit institute Lycée la Providence in Amiens.
Just wanted to say that this is awesome.
> Its too cold to sleep in those conditions.

I don't understand - how do you think people camp in cold parts of the world? Of course you can sleep in those conditions.
CPI inflation is extremely low. This should be worrying to anyone who thinks that the value of a dollar is going down as much as the housing, stock and cryptocurrency market imply. No, this is an indicator for a large scale bubble in the financial system. Once interest rates go up again there will be a correction.
I don't see what the tradeoff is. They ask for more information, and it brings zero additional protection against fraud.

The only impact is for real people, that will have to disclose additional private information.
The High Price of Cell Phones (2007)
"Cell Phone technology has gone mainstream recently. Almost everyone, it seems, has a cell phone or similar device. The advantages of having this technology are readily available and promoted in the advertising for these products, but what about the drawbacks and dangers? This paper will shine some light on the dark side of widespread cell phone use, including possible radiation exposure and brain injury risk, increased risks of vehicle accidents, the disruptions caused by ringing phones and those who talk on them in inappropriate places, the financial costs of monthly fees and surcharges for services, the high turnover rate of phones resulting in large amounts of e-waste, hand muscle strains from using tiny keyboards, and the reduction of face-to-face personal contact."
The Cassini–Huygens mission had exactly such a moment [1,2]. A year or so after it was lunched somebody pointed out that Huygens and Cassini communication may fail due to a flaw in handling of Doppler shifted radio signals on Cassini, which should relay data from Huygens. Luckly the spacecraft used a Venus gravity assist and had a close encounter with Earth again, so the issue was tested and confirmed. Engineers had to adjust the descent profile of Huygens, releasing it earlier than originally planned. This made its batteries last shorter after landing on Titan, but the whole mission was saved and data from the surface was properly relayed to Earth.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)

2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ubr151wrHQ
I agree. I played that and tribes 2 so much. I haven found a game with such intense action with so many players as that since.
Hugs from Switzerland.
Not just in Europe - even in the US, Tesla is the only company that doesn't use a standardized charger.

Even the Tesla charger is electrically compatible with the standard one; you just need a mechanical adapter to plug in, and won't have any of the extra Tesla-only features that require complicated communication between vehicle and charger. In the EU, they're forced to use the standard connector, and they're doing perfectly fine with it.
Age of billionaires when they made their first million