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This kind of shit is why I insist on downloading and removing the DRM from all the ebooks I buy...
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Honestly, I don't see, conceptually, a big distinction between building a corporation (like Walmart) and a nation. In both cases, there is a person which organizes other people and makes sure that collectively, they fight with other neighboring organization over resources, for mutual benefit within the group, and win. And then, like in feudalism, the descendants of the organizer himself inherit the organization, and the right to control it, and tell people what to do.

Yes, technically the leader's job is still qualified labor (although in case of being just a shareholder, there is no labor involved, if you are CEO or in a board, you are actually paid extra aside from the dividends).

But that's not the main point, the main point is, just like in feudalism, the founder of the institution has the indefinite, and hereditary, power to make decisions concerning the institution, in other words, he owns it. The other people involved in building it (and their descendants) do not have such powers. And that is deeply problematic, which is why today we reject feudalism in favor of e.g. democracy. For similar reasons, I believe, we should reject hereditary ownership of corporations in favor of, say, worker coops.
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I deliberately said it's an argument ;-)

There's no clearly agreed definition of 'life', and in my opinion, scientists are moving gradually towards an idea that viruses should count as life. Hank Green recently posted that he finds it obvious that viruses are alive.

The argument that viruses are not life has become a bit circular - viruses are not life, therefore, we have to come up with awkward definitions of life that exclude viruses.

You've posited a different definition, which I'd suggest is very close to mine - 'maintaining homeostasis' is meant to express the idea that a cell is able to produce its own proteins in order to control its own environment to its own benefit.

[When a virus changes that environment to suit its own needs, we don't want viruses to be considered life, so we don't call that 'homeostasis' any more - at least, we don't when we're talking about the context of what 'life' is. There are plenty of academic papers that do call this homeostasis, considering homeostasis as an interplay between cells and its viral infections.]
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There is really not point in accumulating wealth if you cannot pass it down.
And maybe consider that you might have been lucky in your life and your children or your grandchild won't be. So don't think, "I did it easily, so they can as well".
Not sure about the first, but it is really cool regardless. I tried doing a similar thing once upon a time with RFID (SAR), but I couldn’t figure out how it would work.

This seems even lower level, since I was basically using off the shelf components, and you built the whole thing yourself!

Really cool.
> "The Tor network is an anonymous relay network overlaid on the internet".

Nitpick: This isn't an identity statement by the way: You can't replace "is" with "equals" here because it's being used to classify. It denotes subset, not equality or equivalence.
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There must be other examples, but you're right in the famous case of Prince changing his name to an abstract symbol to get round a contractual issue he was having with his record label. Apparently journalists started saying "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" though apparently it didn't stick? Unfortunately I'm not enough of a Prince fan to know what his fans did?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/featu...
> Should be seriously mentored by someone.

Maybe people who think a basic regex such as this is difficult, need some mentoring.

It doesn't even use lookahead/lookbehind or other more complicated features. It only uses non-greedy matching 2 times, which is the only thing that's more complicated than the basic AND/OR logic expressed by the rest of the expression.
Is it possible to create a «proof of pain» cryptocurrency, where holders repratedly stab themselves with sharp objects to increase their cryptocurrency balance?
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The question is about XHTML, not HTML. HTML does not even have the self-closing tags the question is concerned about.

In XHTML, either the opening angle bracket must be escaped, or the script should be in a CDATA section.
I once spent a week power washing and staining my deck. I’d only look at the most crucial work stuff and ignore the rest. When that happens, you go through a realization how much of our work actually matters and what appears to matter at the time, but really isn’t as important. In fact some of it just needlessly creates stress and work for others.

I recommend doing something like this, it can be a nice reset button...
It’s not a stupid question at all. Entropy is a made up number like energy. In a physical system it is related to how many arrangements of atoms/molecules/things there can be that would result in the system being in the state you can see.

Energy tells you how difficult it is to put a bunch of particles (atoms, for example) in a given state. Entropy is how many of such states are possible. Ordered states (like crystals) have lower entropies than disordered states (like liquids), because there are fewer ways of arranging atoms and still get a crystal compared to the combination of possible positions for each atom in a liquid. In systems that are isolated (i.e. they cannot exchange energy with anything else), entropy cannot decrease on average. In non-isolated systems, anything goes and entropy can go up or down locally all the time.

We don’t measure it directly. What we can do usually is measure how much something heats when we give it energy, and work from there to deduce any entropy change using equations from thermodynamics or statistical Physics. It is impossible to measure an absolute entropy in general (in the same way as it is impossible to measure an absolute energy in general).

There are lots of caveats, asterisks, and cases that look like exceptions; that’s a quick and dirty description.
Reading the comments, I get the impression that many people are somewhat lacking perspective.

I've been writing software professionally for more than 25 years, > 30 years in total. gnuplot has been around all that time. Developed in an academic environment, people probably (certainly) had other things to do than argue about name comparisons to other projects. And nobody cared.

There are things that are not an invariant of time. And frankly - open source along with the ideological battle over it is certainly one of those things. There were times with a much healthier way of dealing with zealots (Oh, this will cost me karma, but fortunately I don't care :-)
> They don't fundamentally alter the nature of what a regex does, which is to recognize regular languages.

It's a bit subjective but captures are harder than recognition. Russ Cox has once noted [1] that the extraction has to be run as a separate step after the recognition and a fast DFA can't always be used for that, suggesting they are related but different problems.

[1] https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html
"bit" (the english word) is pronounced exactly like "bite" (the french word), \bit\. The funny thing is that we often use "octet" to refer to bytes (which are pronounced /baɪt/ so no problems here) but we have no alternative for bit.
Replying here due to max comment depth tree, to explain in more detail.

About the link between boole's and bell's inequalities : There are tons of paper : A quick search for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0406004.pdf (I just skimmed it for a few seconds but it's probably talking about the right thing)

In the paper you suggest https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05949, there is nothing which looks like a probability definition.

Assuming the world is using continuous fields, defining the probability for what register as a discrete event like a "blip" must be done carefully, it's not a trivial thing.

Otherwise when you are taking joint probabilities and condition probability, it just tells you that those are questions you can't ask.
Also PNG, which in an attempt to prevent another gif/jif debacle wrote in the specification that its pronounced "ping"
I've always wondered why someone doesn't come out with a disruptive lighting company that doesn't do planned obsolescence, build a reputation for your bulbs lasting 10-20 years, charge the same price as your competitors, and get all the free PR from being the most eco-friendly company out there so you dominate the market while actually providing some real value.
Don't know, but maybe accumulating wealth isn't what life should be about?
You make this more complex than it actually is. HTML is basically SGML with a DTD declaring rules for tag omission/inference, empty elements, and attribute shortforms. This is what the majority of XML heads seem to struggle with, but which nevertheless is every bit as formal as XML is, XML being just a proper subset of SGML, though too small for parsing HTML.

Then HTML has a number of historical quirks including:

- the style and script elements have special rules for comments that would make older pre-CSS, pre-Javascript browsers just see markup comments and ignore those

- the URL syntax using & ampersand characters needs to be treated special because & starts an entity reference in SGML's default concrete syntax

- the HTML 5 spec added a procedural parsing algorithm (in addition to specifying a grammar-based spec) that basically parses every byte sequence as HTML via fallback rules; for most intents and purposes, the language recognized by these rules, taken to the extreme, is not what's commonly understood as HTML

- WHATWG have added a number of element content rules on top of the HTML 4.01/HTML 5.0 baseline with ill-defined parsing rules (such as the content models for tables and description lists); the reason is precisely that WHATWG, once Ian Hickson had distilled the HTML DTD 4.01 grammar rules into the HTML 5 grammar presentation as prose, a formal basis was no longer used for vocabulary extension
The headline says XHTML. HTML does not even have the self-closing tags the question is concerned about.
Many open source projects started in Europe in the 1990s and had mostly European contributors.

When they became famous, US corporations started monetizing them, buying contributors and slowly dictated everything.

Languages like Python, which started in Europe and have at least 75% non-US contributions, are completely governed in the US. European and Asian opinions are ignored and sometimes derided, all while pretending to foster an "inclusive" environment.

Projects moving to GitHub have caused many contributors to stop. No one cares, because the "right people" use GitHub and the others don't matter.

Perhaps Academia is isolated from these issues to some extent, but make no mistake: In the current climate a renaming is highly political; in my opinion French students should revolt to protect their identity, it is the straw that breaks the Caml's back.
Was it absurd tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comedy similar to Douglas Adams? I can't imagine a technologically advanced civilization missing a perfectly correlated signal.
Well, just because it's not breaking laws doesn't mean the use of tax havens has positive benefits for society which ,I guess, is the point of these ICIJ investigations - to eventually change laws.
Prince changed his name to a symbol.

“ After the change, Warner Bros. had to mail out floppy disks to news organizations featuring a font that allowed for reproduction of the new Prince symbol, because the symbol itself cannot be replicated in the fonts most publications use.”

https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11481686/prince-name-change-sy...
Brains and spinal fluid seem to make it more likely. The PNG tribe thought eating the brain of a dead elder would confer their wisdom.
Quantum simulations ran on classical computers have exponential complexity class.

So it's only doable for tiny N.
There is messaging through physical contact. It occurs at the speed of sound as opposed to the speed of light.
> The power factor is 0.5 which is appalling

When it's only a 1 watt bulb it really doesn't matter. It will be massively eclipsed by your 3000 watt dryer or your 30000 watt car charger. And those will have a good power factor.
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The fact that products' fate depends on the (manipulation of) some user reviews on a single site, albeit a very large one, is problematic.

Also - I wonder if Amazon is not well aware of such practices.
Depends on the metric of success you pick. Comparing Linux Kernel to Amazon warehouse business is apples to elephants.

Amazon's warehousing is successful financially, perhaps less so reputationally, but the workers in general aren't very happy about the conditions - and they're not exactly volunteers[0]. A proprietary business is also by definition extremely exclusive - it's not like Amazon will give you their blueprints and operations book for free, to help you start your semi-automated warehouse, and it won't let you contribute to their business either, without a great degree of vetting.

Meanwhile, Linux Kernel is built by true volunteers, and is successful in terms of spread and reliability as a software engineering artifact. Its process is very much inclusive - they'll accept just about anything that contributes positively to the final artifact, according to goals the "core team" defines[1], without much regard for who you are or where are you from. The people contributing regularly don't seem to complain about conditions either.

There's no actual toxicity in there. Unfortunately, in recent years it's become popular for people to call out anything they don't like as "toxic". It often reads like a 5 year old complaining that their grandma makes them wear a hat outside in winter[2].

I've never heard that Linus "just wants the billion dollar enterprises to be testing it not the kernel team which are more of an academic community", but I can see this as a valid point of view. Neither him nor the other early Linux Kernel contributors wanted the whole planetary economy to become critically dependent on their little project. They don't automatically inherit responsibility for everyone else - especially that the whole project is open and inclusive, so anyone who wants to help can help - for instance by creating their own test suites and using it to create and submit bugfixes.

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[0] - Not in the ways that matter. Sure, they've approached Amazon on their own, but they did that only because they don't have any better way of housing and feeding themselves and their kin. The market may not be putting a literal gun to your head, but that doesn't make economic desperation less of a threat to life.

[1] - Without that part, you'd have a ball of mud, not a software project.

[2] - Though every now and then, the "toxicity" line is more like playing with a WMD. Like a 5 year old who thinks threatening to call CPS on their parents for not giving them candy is being clever.
The moment they announce that we will learn of someone GPG Next Generation (short: GNG) effort
I don't understand what you're saying here. What's wrong with wanting to keep work stuff out of my personal machines?
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Yes. Fantastic project! Woul love to know more details & key architectural decisions.
> protein that encourages other proteins of the same type to misfold in the same way.

Gotta wonder if this is a clue about abiogenesis.
It for sure is, you can see it on your tax declaration.
Agreed that this was my biggest disagreement with the article as well. You describe the solution to "falling behind" as giving the team a few days to decompress. I would create that decompression in a different way - by setting and sticking to priorities.

Ultimately, if you're falling behind, there's not enough capacity in the system, and so some things won't get done. Better to make that judgment explictly by setting priorities, rather than having it happen ad hoc.
Mid 30s. I paint minis with my wife on the regular. Exactly zero of my friends who are women think my minis are weird. Almost everybody who comes over and sees the display cases says “wow how awesome”.

The hobby community is heavily male because of marketing and a community that was actively hostile to women (similar to many male dominated hobbies). But nothing about the actual activity should be gendered. Don’t let shitty culture control your decisions. Be the change!
I was more confused by abstinence leading to coitus interruptus, which seems logically incoherent.

It sounds like they were still having sex, just not having enough babies to replace themselves, which could have been dealt with on its own in a very dry demographic way.

Bringing abortion, beastiality and sexual abstinence into it seems to muddy the waters for no clear benefit to the point that they were trying to make, which I think is, that if you have less than replacement rate babies, then your population will fall. But maybe that seemed a little too tautological without the extra details to distract the reader.

Also, the writers own story seems to suggest that these people (e.g. his great-grandmother) did have descendents (e.g. the author) it's just that they moved to the city, which I think was a big trend everywhere.
why did you comment then?
I've had a noticeable amount of cheaper (WalMart) LEDs burnout in less than a year. But my Philips Hue lights have been running strong 4+ years now :)
We are on HN, so I just assumed everyone on here was interested and seeking out way to accumulate more wealth than the average working professional.
Of course not everyone has to have that mindset.
But if you do have that mindset, then I find it hard to understand why you'd be against inheritance.
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Yes, I mean Brexit.

As I noted, I understand that some products would increase in price due to Brexit but that would be EU provided products and I would have thought as a one off increase rather than incremental increase every Month.

I haven't ran a similar comparison given I don't keep track of the receipts of good from other places. Amazon orders page reports the price I bought with every time.
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett
Do people actually write eBay? It looks as dated as eMail.

iPhone is definitely an example of marketing winning over grammar, but it's not a given. Plenty of style guides indicate "our company name is to be written in all caps", when they want to stand out, which the rest of us happily ignore.
Claiming that something is wrong without an alternative theory is not how science is done too
The recommended alternative to Google’s proprietary authenticator is MIT-licensed andOTP. The app is also available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.shadowice.flocke.andotp/
Well, Einstein prefaced that exact portion by saying, "To see what I mean, forget all about quantum mechanics for a moment." You misunderstood what he wrote. He did not describe entanglement when discussing the red and blue pair of socks. He was creating an analogy to build his argument that he later transferred to "spooky action at a distance".
Some very good questions in this post that I would have also liked OP to answer. For context, I run a marketplace (https://vendiapp.com) where we physically verify every product transacted on our platform. We are focussing on Phones and similar high value electronic products susceptible to fraud. And visual inspection is definitely not enough to detect fakes in this industry. Also, average cost of having external experts is more than $20. So, there is a need for deep tech and a great supply chain to make the unit economics work.
Yes i have those (from 10+ years ago) and there is also promethease. But the ban still makes negative sense
> consciousness collapses the wave function and solipsism is the nature of reality

This would assume that somehow the atoms in our brain work differently than the atoms anywhere else. There is nothing special about consciousness.

Honestly, the rest of your post is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, it’s difficult to see what you are trying to say.
Yes, we should be using a circle constant that has a value twice that of "pi".

We should not be calling it "tau". That's already used for too many things, and anyway the constant is important enough to deserve its own symbol.

Instead of cutting it down from two verticals to one, we should add a symbol that has three verticals. Which has the additional advantage of giving a real visual cue to what's going on.
I guess it's a little less secret than a camera multitasking entitlement, still not a super "public" thing.
Is there a list of the largest and worst offenders? I would like to avoid their products going forward.
Part of this is because of tests like the ones involved with Bells theorem. Minute physics does a better job explaining it then I can. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs&vl=en
It used to be a license but then they switched to taking the money directly from every tax paying adult, thus increasing their budget with a couple of billion SEK.
It's closer to HTML than the browser.
> I don't know many software engineer that would agree to a five-year contract with no option for early leaving.

Which is why it's important to practice good, humane management. Good engineers can punch their own tickets. Need lots of carrot, and very little stick.

I kept high-functioning, smart, experienced, C++ image processing engineers together for decades on my team, despite mediocre pay, and a pretty challenging environment (no, I won't go into detail).

This required that I connect with each and every member of my team as a human, often on an equal basis, as opposed to as a "superior/inferior" basis. It also meant that I needed to learn about the drivers for each person, give them as much family time as they needed, back off from micromanaging, and find ways to help them to resolve differences in ways that strengthened the team.

As I have stated before, when they finally rolled up my team, after 27 years, the person with the least tenure had a decade.

In about a month, we'll be getting together for a cookout at one of my former employees' home. We haven't worked together in over 3 years, but we still share a bond.
If you're scamming people and you get paid peanuts, does it somehow make scamming _more_ morally acceptable in your eyes? Weird.
yeah, it’s reasonable to attribute those defects to the solver and not their situation and circumstances
The satire has largely been lost. So the imperium is no longer seen as “just as bad as the other options” but instead seen as righteous in the face of evil. Framing matters more than text, and “space fascists” doesn’t end up in the framing most of the time.

It doesn’t help that the mirror faction in AoS is just a good faction in a sea of evil.

I do wish that GW would just lean in and drop the fascist iconography and let marines be good. That way we wouldn’t need this weird ramp from “these are the good guys” to “actually, if you read the lore it is trying to be satire”.
It could at least have been a book report on Crypto https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/332850/crypto-by-st... , which is perhaps even better and a lot less well-known.
I am sure they will be kind enough to rename themselves to GNGNGNG.
Anecdote. First generation, not 4th. External fraud, not laziness/entitlement/wastefulness.

Irrelevant.
I almost tend to think these are intentional to tell the in-crowd apart, like a shibboleth. Including pronouncing SQL as sequel and so on.
Adoption of “god emperor” for Trump is a notably example.
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