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DynamicDensityMaps is a new collection of data structures that produce distributions that auto-scale to any range of numeric values. This can be used to animate what's happening in a stream of data and can also be used to perform statistical inference.
Of course it doesn't make the crimes less heinous. If anything it makes them more heinous, because they failed to learn from those mistakes. Their statues will also be torn down.
>This reminds me of what Peter Thiel wrote about Europe in Zero to One. Europe was in the indefinite pessimism block, the world is going to crap and they don’t think they can do nothing about it.

Thanks for the quote; the Thiel book sounds interesting.

I've been thinking about how familiar the discussion here and in the recent Economist post sounds. Isaac Asimov wrote a short story, "The Evitable Conflict" (1950), in which a future world government is divided into four regions (<https://imgur.com/N2g6DKE>). Without spoiling the story, the European bloc is described as being the smallest by population, slowest to grow, becoming a backwater compared to other regions, and content to remain that way.
> Says whom?

I suspect just about every avid connoisseur of American media who isn’t out to peddle a narrative, but I didn’t do a survey at our last quarterly meeting so I can’t tell for sure. :)

> Not-strongly-denominational non-to-weakly (note the “a”; not a typo for “weekly”) practicing Christian, or similarly weakly-attached Jewish, seems to be the norm, outside of showed focussing on a distinct and different subculture.

Of the characters who are identifiably religious I could agree that Christians and Jews are a majority, but I strongly suspect that they outnumber irreligious characters.

Consider that the mainstay of virtually all pop culture are drugs, alcohol, and premarital sex, most or all of which are embraced by the “normal” characters but taboo among American Christians. When a character is identifiably Christian, they are almost always portrayed as judgmental of those things, which is to say they contrast from the “normal” characters. The default has to be some identity which jives with the popular culture, and since Christian ethos are incompatible with the bread and butter of pop culture, I am certain that the default is not Christian.

> I don't think that's really all that much more true than other identities

It seems to be different for the irreligious identities. Pop culture doesn’t rarely leans on cliches to identify a character that doesn’t believe, because it doesn’t need to, they are the default. But yes, I agree that for other identities, writers need to do something to indicate the identity and per Sturgeon’s Law (TIL, thanks) most of that is lazy stereotyping.
> a lot of HW was essentially sent to the landfill.

I mean, you could replace fake with the original quite easily as a drop-in replacement? 5-minute soldering job.
I think it's fair to take a little short hand for clarity when it comes to historical figures. We do call a particular Roman "Octavian" when he would vehemently deny that fact and proclaim loudly that his full legal name is Gaius Julius Caeser[1].

If Mary Mallon were alive today it'd be in extremely poor taste to call her Typhoid Mary to her face - but that name seems to be the historical consensus and we're not going to change it on HN.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus it was a whole thing but he put significant effort into being the heir in name and perception of that other Caeser guy.
This is actually a really good analogy that applies to some other argument, but not the one I was trying to make :)

Git forks and merges still share a common ancestral history and are basically an evolution of the same idea. This is true of a real Git repo (it's one software project after all) and the kind of churches you are likely talking about (it's all just a theist religion after all). Christianity is a branch in the same repo as the ancient Roman gods. The Saturnalia feature is even there still :)

I was thinking more about ideas like:
- can people be property?
- is it a good thing to kill "infidels"?
- can women vote?
- can a 10 year old get married?

These are "religious" questions because there is no objective truth to the answer either way. It's all based on beliefs and consensus.

Before you downvote me into oblivion: the answers to all of these have historically been different than they are today. People in both times (past and present) would attack you if you disagreed with the status quo (there was even a certain civil war fought about the people=property one). I am not actually disagreeing with the status quo on any of the above.

However, it would be naive to think that we do not presently collectively believe some things that would be appalling to a future human. A good heuristic for these is: would I get attacked or mocked for questioning this?

See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
The fact is material and pertinent. It is absolutely objectively pertinent to whether the WSJ journal is earnestly acting in good faith with a long history of anti-electrification articles. Whether you AGREE with my assessment that, no they are not a good faith actor, is perhaps an open question. My flagged comment below expressed my OPINION that the WSJ is a bad faith actor in this topic, arguably Rupert Murdoch is responsible for much of climate change denialism. However, flagging a civilly expressed opinion that has a pertinent bearing on the thread is abusing flagging for the sake of suppressing criticism.
Fair point. I wasn't sure how closely the original commenter had read the article so I figured some clarification would be helpful.

With respect to "breaking up big tech" and it being harmful to US companies on a global stage, my guess is that over a long enough time period monopolistic companies tend stop being innovative since their motivations in how to derive profit shift. I believe that will end up being harmful for the societies and countries they exist in. Countries, societies, and industries which can stay competitive I think would benefit in the long run so long as they are not consumed by that global monopoly. In the short run it could be pretty harmful.

Just an opinion I'm not too strongly tied to at the moment. It would be interesting to see an economic study or something.
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I just use Feedly and select sources that I trust. There's no other way to do it.
I’d like to say I’m being glib here, but doesn’t the fact that the NSA gives someone named Reality Winner a clearance kind of put the blame on them for this one?

You hire a flake, you’re gonna have to deal with the fallout.
I’ve been diving into SwiftUI lately and it’s such a joy to use, gave me a renewed appreciation for UI design. It’s nice to see some real apps being done with it, proving it is possible to do so.
Congrats on the app!
New NYPD press officer co-wrote The Intercept Russiagate story that landed source in prison

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/20/the-intercept-reality-win...

I think she was a nice woman who got caught up in things that were a lot larger than her. I'm glad she's out.
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Have you looked at the original man pages for 7th ed. (http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th) or Plan 9 (http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9_3rd_ed)? They’re basically tldr with less examples, and exhaustive, except there’s so much less stuff to exhaust. I was both pleasantly surprised by how simple they are and unpleasantly surprised by how far we’ve fallen in terms of complexity (though my recent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27498189 explains why that’s an oversimplification). The GNU man pages (where they even exist) or the POSIX ones are a usability abomination in comparison. Even BSD’s are still quite bad.
According to that FAA document, PET (Polyethyleneterephthalate) is considerably less combustible than PE. This material seems to be BoPET (biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate), which is aluminised PET. Presumably less flammable than PET, but not included in the FAA document.

I am not an expert, and haven't tested it.

Edit: I see now, that PE seems to be in the doorway.
TIL FTDI converters use a 600-800 nm node... that's almost a micron!

The fact that they sell their chips for five fucking dollars a pop has always been kind of obscene, but on such an old node, they really shouldn't cost more than a dollar, tops. No wonder they're so heavily cloned.
people can hate on tucker all day long, as they attacked rush and oreilly before him, but tucker brings up issues that resonate in red america. he does a pretty fair job, which is evidenced by how trivial the criticism against him is.

if people are confused about what red america thinks, they would be well served to look at Breitbart, tucker, and independent conservative outlets to see how they frame the discussion. I'm always amazed at how people on the left don't really see what the right is going on about.
what are your thoughts on storj.io? they utilize R-S for all their entire storage platform.
Insurance and real estate are incredibly slow when it comes to software, but that doesn't necessarily mean the work is tolerable...
It takes a lot of water to hold a little energy.

A cubic meter of water (1000 liters) weighs a metric ton, that is, 1000 kg.

If that fell 100 meters (a little more than 300 feet) that is

10 m/s^2 * 1000 kg * 100 meter

or 10^6 J. That would generate 1kw of electricity for 1000 seconds. (Enough to bake 5 potatoes in the Microwave.)

That's a substantial amount of energy but it is a huge amount of water and it is a equivalent to a pressure of 10 atmospheres which would have blown up your plumbing!
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Personally I think it’s a lot harder to build a habit 3 days a week than every day.

You don’t need to do stressful exercise every day. But if you can get yourself to show up to the same location, and do anything – whether that’s stretching, or exercising, or going for a walk – you’re going to build a more sustainable habit than you would if you allowed yourself to skip it four days a week.
He claims it's broken without any specifics.
C++ is just the language everyone in the fintech world uses, as a matter of course, so not worthy of a story. It works and everybody knows it works. Failing would be news. Knight Capital was news!

(Although, a worryingly large fraction of that world remain stuck on C++98 compiled with Gcc-4.)

OCaml is an oddball language, its users are oddballs, and companies that employ them are oddballs. That makes it a good story when they show that they can actually succeed in a world utterly dominated by C++.

OCaml is a pretty good, albeit GC'd, language just about to graduate to being able to use multiple cores, so now is an exciting time for its users.
Google's opinions on anything are overrated
I definitely can see this becoming a standard thing. It's not an earth shattering improvement but enough of one for everyone to want it.
Maybe their parents were an odd bunch. Should we behave differently towards the person for that? Or, am I talking out my rear because the person changed their name? (In that case, yeah, it's on the NSA).
Speaking as someone who Friday had to fix an embarrassing bug in my Python code because lists aren’t immutable when passed to another function, I like the way you think.

I will say, however, that what I want from Python isn’t actually “frozen” data structures but cloned ones (or, like some/most FP languages, structures with nested values that are only cloned when necessary).

Vals, not vars.
If only these sorts of workarounds really worked when your brain doesn't have enough of the right chemicals. "Can't make myself do the thing" turns out to be called ADHD, and T3+T4 thyroid treatment and Adderall have helped me.
Umm I think you just answered your own question.
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Show HN: Securely run SQL analytics on your encrypted data
The edge cases are problem not only because they actually are a technical problem (which is undeniable) but because edge cases are an optics problem.

When self-driving goes wrong due to mishandled edge cases, people will be willing to ignore massive amounts of statistical evidence that self-driving cars are safer than humans on average, and obsessively focus on the the failed edge cases.

"I don't care if self-driving cars have N times fewer accidents per kilometer, what about how that one one time when the Wile E. Coyote painted a picture of a tunnel on a cliff, and then a self-driving car tried to go into it and blew up in a giant ball of fire? It was all over the news man; self-driving is a joke."
Pretty much, yes. What it means depends on context, the topic at hand, and the position of the person regarding the matter:

- Indifference
- Do care, yet reject both extremer view points on left and right
- Studied topic deeply and actually concluded middle ground is the best fit
- Sees status quo as valid

It could mean any of these things. Therefore, it's inaccurate to conclude anything on centrists as if they are a well defined group.

Even the term centrist itself is inaccurate, as very few people would have a fully centrist view on every single topic imaginable.

Coercing somebody with a centrist view into a hard choice under the threat that otherwise you approve the "murdering of children" or some other awful consequence, is plain idiotic. It's a polarization tactic: friend or foe.
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I think the problem is if you use a self-signed certificate, the web browser tells you this is a grave concern. In order to avoid this issue, ACME requires your web server to communicate with an external service provider to sign the certificate. But now you're dependent on Lets Encrypt being able to access your server!

I'm not sure that this is an avoidable problem. If your web browser would accept an unsigned certificate, then it's not really encrypted content. The router could intercept the relevant HTTPS request, connect to the self-signed server on its own accord and pass the data back to the client. All we're achieving there is the use of a few more CPU cycles.

Lets Encrypt gives you proof that at some point in the last 90 days, Lets Encrypt's routes, which you trust to be more secure than your own routes, were able to access this server (modulo pedantry). If this information is interesting to you, you need to distinguish between the occasions when you have some alternative means of trust from the majority case. Browser warning pages are an in-your-face but reasonable approach.

As a person who has a vague understanding of how PKI works and a relative ability to distinguish "I want to access this site now" from "I have a means of proving that I trust this key", I would appreciate it if I could say I trust this signer or do something like trivially set up an acme signer for my home network.[*] The browser's "permanently stop caring about trust for this site" isn't really one that I enjoy using (even the old fashioned option to "add a temporary exception" was better!), and a lot of software is becoming harder to use without TLS.

[*] ed to add: I mean I can, but it's matter of time and energy. I think Windows makes it relatively easy to add a new root key, and on Linux I guess it's a matter of doing all the stuff you do whenever you configure stuff. On Android I have no idea if it's possible or if I just have to trust exactly whoever it is that OnePlus trusts. I've seen tutorials for how to deal with some of this stuff, and I always filed it into the box of things to deal with when I got a round tuit. It's not so much the ability to deal with it, as the fact that it's a fair amount of work, needs to be repeated for several devices, needs to be repeated for new devices, may not be doable for all devices, and it's done so rarely that it's completely impossible to memorise and even if you could something has probably changed in the interim. In short, it's possible, but using HTTP is way easier despite the fact that sometimes you have to override defaults.
Chipotle says it raised prices to cover wage hike, doesn't mention exec bonuses
I’ve been sitting on a similar idea for awhile too, a friendly threat.
#2 and #4 are both about Zoom having a botched e2e implementation (it was "e2e", but had server-side key management). That's not really a win for Teams since it doesn't even try to support e2e.
I'm not the parent of this
> Fast paths, caches, retries, failover, load balancing, and autoscaling all make the failure state less resource-efficient relative to the normal state, which makes the feedback loop worse. Beware of very high cache hit rates!

This scares me as someone who is working on performance tuning and is adding fast paths every other day....

The paper kinds of reminded me the "Gray failure" paper by the way.

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/15/gray-failure-the-achille...
This is a misconception, I think, although your experience seems like enough that I'm surprised you'd make it.

The "big" changes that happen as you approach and go beyond 40km/h are due to (aerodynamic) drag coefficient, which has very, very little to do with the width of your tires.

The changes that Heine is talking about are not related to drag coefficient at all.

Worth noting that Heine himself is a legendary ultra-cyclist. He holds the record on the Cannonball (Seattle to Spokane on I-90, 300 miles) in the self-supported category. He would routinely other riders (e.g. me) even though he had to pull off the interstate to restock on fluids and food.
Signal as a network is controlled by a single individual, or small staff of individuals. There is a central server. Also there is no way to use signal anonymously.

It is useful for talking to people you know in real life, but that's it.

As to the user friendliness, I find more infuriating bugs (and "features") with signal these days, although that was not always the case. For example, if history is not restored on launch it is lost forever, this is a problem if you're e.g. going to a privacy hostile nation and need your history clean for the trio but want to restore it when you get back. Another particularly heinous violation is that the signal app has code in it that slows it's functionality if the version is out of date, pressuring you to update.
If flagging is abused to shut down civilly expressed imminent criticism, what is to stop me from just flagging everything I don’t like on HN? Is it not presumed that one is a good faith actor, at least initially? Are not downvotes also something one should be “reasonable” about, aka also requiring trust, community mindedness etc?

Shall HN turn into a subreddit per thread, as crowds defend post “territories”?
That only indicates that Christmas was secularized long before Coke borrowed the Santa imagery.
Recaptcha/Google's pervasiveness on the internet is one of the most annoying things I repeatedly have to deal with. It's easy enough to block all google servers at the hosts level. But then you have lazy developers for government websites using it and need to enable them. They've just wound themselves so tightly into the internet it's near impossible to exist without interacting with their services.
"any publicity is good publicity as long as they spell your name right"
> Perhaps it's my own bubble

You'd have to ask your Circles.
When I first started using VS code, I was googling around for a ripgrep extension for search. It took me a bit to find that oh, that's already the default. Shocking getting used to not having 40 years of legacy coming from emacs :)
Worldometer puts the number of covid deaths currently at 3,823,503, which is probably a substantial undercount.

Wikipedia says the number of deaths due to 1957 pandemic is between 1 and 4 million [1].

World population is about 3 times what it was in 1957, so maybe the 1957 pandemic was worse per-capita, but I think with the large error bars it's hard to say for sure.

Also, the current pandemic isn't over yet (even if it has slowed down substantially in those parts of the world that have good vaccination campaigns).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_influenza_pa...
I see a lot of people talking about a hot market, and heres hoping it's true, because fuck I've been out of work a long time. With companies trying to adopt the same hiring practices of FAANG, applying is a crapshoot. It's either a 2 hr coding test (before a phone call) followed by 6 interviews or the company just has no clue at all and gets their sales person to determine how much you're down for their startup's 'mission'.
Isn’t Generation Z and Generation Alpha more racially, socially, and culturally diverse than Millenials?

I mean each generation is the most diverse and at one point the Boomers were the most diverse ever.
I just love Trevor Bauer in all of this.
He denies that he created the idea, but he has spoken about it ("making an X on a calendar"). In his mind it probably seemed like a simple observation (he's pretty good at those), and I could imagine he was surprised people took it to a near-religion ("the Seinfeld productivity program").

I'm not sure it's accurate to say he denies "that he ever had anything to do" with it, but his comment there is vague enough to be read either way I suppose.
I don't think we've even started to account the immense costs of reciclying solar panels. Not even mentioning wind turbines, which today are partly not even recyclable. A nuclear power plant can last 50-75 years. What are we going to do with millions of heavy-metal filled solar panels?
That's great! I sent a few cold applications through workatastartup.com, but I mostly just updated my profile there and on LinkedIn, and flipped the switch to "tell recruiters I'm open" on the latter.

I had a similar experience to you on LI. I wasn't particular desperate for a new gig, so I aimed high on salary range. At first I was told I was too expensive, but a couple weeks in I had plenty of options at or above my range, so shoot for the moon!
Thank you for articulating what I often have a lot of trouble figuring out how to say.

Work, in general, is stupid. The entire concept of it is inane. My fantasy version of utopia is a peaceful, post-scarcity society where no one ever needs to work, and automatically gets a life of luxury simply because it's available and costs nothing. Many people will choose to fill their time with things that look a bit like what we now call work (if you tilt your head and squint just the right way). Many will devote their lives to the pursuit of furthering humankind's knowledge. Many will choose creative endeavors that in today's economy would be judged worthless. Many will focus on their families and enjoy their time with them. And yes, some will choose to sit around and do nothing all day but eat junk food and watch the utopian equivalent of TV all day.

And all that is not only ok, it's awesome! Obviously this is a fantasy world, and we can't live in it. But we should think more about that as a goal, and shape things as best we can. Let's stop creating bullshit jobs just for the sake of full employment, and figure out what really needs to be done, and what doesn't. There's so much wealth in the world that we could certainly find an alternative that could keep people housed, clothed, fed, and then some, if there isn't a job available for them.

Our current system is just based on personal greed and cynicism. If we don't evolve beyond it, I fear we won't last as a civilization (or possibly even as a species) for many more centuries.
That seems like strong evidence that there is a “secular Christmas” that is distinct from “Christian Christmas”. Certainly it suffices to disprove the original claim that “celebrating Christmas identifies someone as Christian”.
Those plants can be licensed, easily, for another 25 years. What about solar panels?
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