Breaking up with JavaScript front endstriskweline.de

Henning Koch is the founder of makandra GmbH, a Ruby-on-Rails consulting company. He has over 50+ applications in maintenance and maintains them for More than 10 years. His main focus is on improving the performance of his app by using Unpoly, an open-source AngularJS library, to reduce the amount of code required to create great Angling experiences. the most important thing that can be done with this new approach is to use fragments instead of full pages. This allows us to keep track of How much time it takes to build a page.

  • Makandra is a Ruby on Rails consultancy. we start a new application every 3 months and maintain apps for a really long time.

  • JavaScript is now fast. 25 new HTML attributes to write modern UI, but keep logic on the server. JavaScript has been around for two years and in production with multiple apps.

  • Unpoly's default UJS behavior is a small layer around a JS API. if you're using jQuery, you can use it to build your own UI.

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Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreementnews.ycombinator.com

The "Hp Smart App" forces you to use only the ink That's in the box before you can get the app. this isn't a huge deal, since modern printers don't have a driver and work fine out-of-the-box. However, when you run into an error message saying "Printer set up incomplete," it's time to get Your new machine.

  • The HP Smart App forces you to use only their ink before you can use their app. after you've printed a bunch of pages, they stop working and display the error message.

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Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)news.yale.edu

The bond is issued by the Dutch water board in 1648 to finance improvements for a local river dike. It continues to pay annual interest. Young, the curate of Modern Books and manuscripts who collects the back interest on the bond, travels to Amsterdam to collect 12 years from the bond. He finds that the bond is an early example of how people sometimes issue perpetual debt but it is rare that governments or other bodies have not default upon those debts. In the 18th century, there were many instances when institutions issued "perpetual debt." But it is only rare that there was an uninterrupted history when governments or others have not failed on these debts," Goetzmann says. The purchase raises a question for the Bei necke, which doesn't typically catalog or house living documents. They decide to keep the bond alive as long as they can so that it will remain active. A bearer bond is added to record payments. The collection of financial history also features a bond issued in 1622 owned by the Duden East India Company. Although the bond no longer pays any interest, it still lives on.

  • Yale's 1648 Dutch water bond is one of five known to exist. it was issued by a Dutch water board to finance improvements to a local dike system. a paper addendum was added to record new payments.

  • Yale's 1648 Dutch water bond is one of five known to exist. it was issued by a Dutch water board to finance improvements to a local dike system. a paper addendum was added to record new payments.

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Amtrak asks fed regulators to investigate Union Pacific handling of Sunset Ltdwww.trains.com

Amtrak seeks relief from Union Pacific for its failure to provide preferential treatment to the train. The company claims that it is unable to run trains on time because of many factors, including improper practices, insufficient control over the schedule, and delays caused by third parties. Amtrak also requests an injunctive against UP for failing to meet its performance standards.

  • Amtrak asks the Surface Transportation board to investigate "abysmal" on-time performance. the company says UP is responsible for 74.2% of the delays. it also asks for damages and other relief from UP as a result of those practices.

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What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answerwww.quantamagazine.org

The narrator discusses the latest developments in the field of brain disease. He describes how the amyoli cascade hypothesis has been used to explain why people with late-onset or early-stage forms of dementia are dying. The most recent evidence from a drug called lecanematab suggests that it may slow the progression and improve quality of life for patients who have early stages of the condition. however, many scientists still believe that there is more complex story going on in the brain than the simple amyloid cause. One summer day at his university in Los Angeles, Kent Travaglini visits his grandparents as a Young boy. They walk around together when they first start to notice something wrong. Their grandmother was initially depressed by her memorylessness but eventually became convinced that she had "Alarm's disease" and would not be harmed. A few years later, John Hardy discovered that the family had inherited a single genetic mutation that led to their inherited form of the disease: the Jennings had a specific sequence of genes that caused an over production of the ammyloid-betha. this resulted in Carol's family having inherited the disease before age 65. Since no one knew how much the similarity might go between these two types of inherited diseases, everyone started trying to figure out what could be responsible for the disease. Some believed that the only way to cure the disease was to kill the plaques inside the neurons. Others believed that some sort of dysfunction within the cell involved other parts of the brain such as the immune system or mitochondria. But none of these theories worked. Only four anti-amorloid drugs were approved for treating the symptoms of Alzbieta; however, several others did not work. finally, Biogen announced that its newer drug aducanumamab failed in phase 3, which means that even though all of the anti-amiloid drugs now work, they will never be enough to stop the progress of the illness. Other studies continue to show that endosome structures in human brains can play a key role in the pathologies of Alzheimer disease.

  • Scientists have long held onto the idea that amyloid plaques are the cause of Alzheimer's disease. now, many are turning their attention to deeper dysfunctions happening within cells. "the clinically important difference is probably not there," says one researcher.

  • Amyloid cascade hypothesis was once hushed and thrown under the rug. new models of the disease focus on fundamental mechanisms affecting the health of cells. what's being learned about them might someday pay off in new treatments.

  • Researchers at the university of California, Los Angeles, are passionate about Alzheimer's. the disease is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of modern medicine. it affects behavior, speech, orientation and even a person's ability to move.

  • A single mutation in the gene for the amyloid precursor protein (APP) causes early-onset Alzheimer's. the condition affects only around 600 families worldwide. it's almost certain that a parent who carries the mutation will develop it before age 65.

  • The amyloid cascade hypothesis was proposed in the early 1990s. lysosomes are instrumental in a vital (but at the time poorly understood) process called autophagy ( self-eating) they are crucial for neurons because they do not divide and replace themselves.

  • The amyloid cascade hypothesis was the clear darling of the biomedical research establishment. by the end of the 1990s, 146 drug candidates for treating Alzheimer's disease had been deemed unsuccessful. the only approved drug that aims at the underlying neurobiology to slow the progression of the disease is aducanumab.

  • Amyloid-hypothesis supporters have often argued that trials could have failed. there's no way of knowing how early the interventions need to be. "there isn't some great conspiracy or anything" to ban alternative approaches to Alzheimer's.

  • A critical finding around the turn of the millennium reinvigorated interest in the lysosomal explanation. endosomes are a highly dynamic network of vesicles that sit under the cell membrane. if molecules slated for destruction don't get labeled, recycled or shipped properly, disruption can trigger a cascade.

  • Amyloid is not causative, but mutations in all three of them cause pileups of lysosomes. genetics is seen as the anchor for people to try and make sense of stuff, scientist says. "do your own thing now" is the message to researchers in the Alzheimer's field.

  • Lysosomal dysfunctions can cause diseased neurons to erupt into structures called PANTHOS. if their findings hold true in follow-up studies, they could change our understanding of the origins of Alzheimer's disease.

  • The Oskar Fischer Prize was originally intended to be for the most comprehensive explanation of the causes of Alzheimer's disease. but the founders eventually broke it up into multiple prizes because it's impossible to capture every different aspect of such a complex disease, Nixon said. "all the dysfunctional pathways can all be integrated into one entity," he says.

  • Researchers are still optimistic that we can build on the moderate success of lecanemab. the amyloid cascade hypothesis was that it offered a simple solution to Alzheimer's disease. a burst of new clinical trials targeting this network in the next few years.

  • Thousands of families are volunteering to help test new drugs and ideas to advance understanding of Alzheimer's disease. Until effective treatments are found, patients' biggest fear is that they will no longer be able to recognize their grandchildren.

  • In 2012, Carol Jennings was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. she was 58 years old. she told her husband that when she dies, her brain must be donated to the brain bank. her husband, a Methodist minister, has managed to keep her at home.

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MiracleCastgithub.com

The goal of this project is to make it easy for people to connect external display devices to their system via Wi Fi. It's not yet complete, but it does have a side-effect: you can use it as an external display on your own devices or even in full desktops. You need the following set of tools: "systemd". A system management monster that manages everything from device management to dbus and service management all in one. If you're using older versions of the operating system, then you should probably just compile them with --enable-kdbus. Otherwise, you'll have to install Arch linux instead. there's also a bunch of other packages out there that will help you get up and running with miraclecast.

  • The MiracleCast project provides software to connect external monitors to your system. it is compatible to the Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast.

  • The MiracleCast projects requires the following software to be installed:systemd: A system management daemon. systemd >= 221 will work out of the box. for earlier versions systemd must be compiled with --enable-kdbus.

  • Build and install MiracleCast, you can choose from:See more info on wikiBuilding.Build and install wikibuilder to compile MiracleCast, click here.

  • Add a udev rule with the scriptres/write-udev-rule.shand configure miraclecast withYou can also choose the interface withoption for miracle-wifid.

  • If you are on 221 or above your systemd has kdbus enabled. an alternative repo was created to install systemd with dbus.

  • Arch linux Use existingAUR package. enable kdbus to systemd-git dependency if you are below 221 systemd.

  • Other flavours If you feel confident enough (since systemd is the entrypoint for an OS) extract instructions from arch linux AUR PKGBUILD:systemd-kdbusmiraclecast.

  • Use it as sink shutdown wpa_supplicant and NetworkManagerlaunch wifi daemonlaunch sink control. your network card will be detected.

  • Wifi peer is a peer-to-peer protocol. it's a protocol that can be used to scan other devices. there's nothing useful here by now.

  • UIBC To use it just addonstartup. Single mouse events and key events are implemented. UI BC is a web-based event management system based on a Single mouse click.

  • Autocompletion Sourceres/miraclecast-completionsfor autocompleton. autocompiletion for windows xp.

  • Software is licensed under the terms of the GNU-LGPL license. Please see./COPYING for further information.

  • This fork is maintained by: Alberto Fanjulalbertofanjul@gmail.com If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the maintainers.

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Synthesizing optimal 8051 code with an SMT solver (2020)lab.whitequark.org

In this note, Tommo explores the possibility of achieving "fast" or "unusably slow" code by using an 8051-based cipher. He uses Rosette, a library that lets him easily write and execute code in a way that is very simple to understand. It also allows him to perform optimizations on the fly.

  • Most cryptographic algorithms involve wide rotates, and the 8051 only has instructions for rotating a 8-bit accumulator by one bit at a time. in this note I explore deriving optimal code for rotating values in registers (that may be bigger than 8 bits) by multiple bits.

  • Rosette lets me avoid learning anything about SMT solvers. only a small subset of Racket is safe to use in Rosette.

  • Code generator uses a rather hacky and complicated scheme. it runs several solvers in parallel, one per CPU, each aiming for a fixed number of instructions. code generator doesn't seem to work for this use case.

  • Results Generating the optimal 8-bit and 16-bit rotates took about half a day on a modern laptop. because of that I have not attempted generating wider ones so far.

  • The following code lists all optimal 8-bit rotates, by 0 to 7 bits. rot8.asm (download)

  • Code lists all optimal 16-bit rotates, by 0 to 15 bits. solver used for rotate by 10 nothing short of brilliant. Drop me a[letter](mailto:whitequark.org?Subject=Synthesizing optimal 8051 code)

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Alma – Generative Graphics Creatorwww.alma.sh

Call Missed Outgoing Absoluteclose close.

  • _call_missed_outgoing_Absoluteclosed. 'call missed' outgoing 'absolutelyclosed'

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Show HN: Pg_CRDT – an experimental CRDT extension for Postgressupabase.com

The narrator introduces the concept of a "consclict free Replicated data type," or CRDT. It's an extension for Postgres that allows multiple people to change the same piece of information in one go. This is important because it means that changes will always be exactly the same when they're applied to different sets of fields. If you've ever thought about using a criddt as a sort of backend to a realtime engine, here's how it works: Realtime streams all the changes from Postgres and saves them into a single cradd. The biggest problem with this approach is that it doesn't work very well at all.

  • Today we're open-sourcing an EXPERIMENTAL extension for CRDTs,. the GitHub repo ishere. there are instructions for running it locally in the README.

  • A CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) is a family of data structures. they can merge changes in a way that the final state of the data will be the same. if Jonny's fruit array arrives first, it will be saved.

  • Offline philosophy Collaborative apps are becoming more prolific as legacy software is rebuilt within a browser environment. if databases were invented today, most of the effort would be spent developing CRDT databases or something with offline algorithms" built-in.

  • A new extension adds CRDT support to Postgres as a data type. this means that updates can be applied in any order and multiple times. Two people can edit blog content at the same time.

  • Yjs and Automerge have created Rust libraries for their CRDTs implementations. the libraries work natively in both a browser and a Postgres environment.

  • An alternative approach for CRDT support in Supabase is to build support directly intoRealtime and use it as an Authoritative server. in this scenario, Realtime would serialize the CRDT and save it to Postgres (probably as adata type)

  • Small updates cause the entire document to broadcast to all collaborators. large CRDT types in Postgres generate significant serialization/deserialization overhead.

  • GitHub is a great place to get involved. if you have experience with CRDTs, don't hesitate to contact one of the team.

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Fuel out of thin air: CO2 capture from air and conversion to methanol (2020)research.american.edu

In this paper, Sen and his co-workers report on the use of a new type of direct air capture to capture and convert large amounts of carbon into mable fuels. they show that they can easily harness the power of natural resources such as hydrogen and methanol to produce clean, renewable mether.

  • Authors: direct air capture (DAC) of CO2 is highly promising. methanol is a superior fuel for internal combustion engines and fuel cells. It can be converted to ethylene and propylene through the MTO process.

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Talking About Large Language Modelsarxiv.org

In this paper, Murray argues that the use of large language models -- such as large language languages -- has made it more difficult for us to understand how these systems work and to "anthropomorphize" them. This paper encourages us to continue to use these tools, so that we may better understand how they work and why they work.

  • The more adept LLMs become at mimicking human language, the more vulnerable we become to anthropomorphism. this trend is amplified by the natural tendency to use philosophically loaded terms, such as "knows", "believes" and "thinks" to mitigate this trend, this paper advocates the practice of repeatedly stepping back to remind ourselves of how LLM systems actually work.

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NEEMOen.wikipedia.org

The mission is to "see what extreme environment challenges astronauts might face in space and to formsolutions by using the ocean, as anéquivalent environment on earth." The crew members live at the Aquarius Reef base, a research station near Florida, for three weeks. Since its opening in September of 2000, it has been used for a number of Science experiments, most involving International scientists. however, since then, the facility has been owned by the Navy's National Undersea Research Center, which was established in April of 2001. Since then, FIU has been part of the University's Marine Education and Renegative Initiative. In addition to being a partner in the project, Fiola also owns the Medna-Aquarius program, which is dedicated to studying andpreserving marine ecosystems around the world.

  • Astronauts are able to live and work underwater for days or weeks at a time. for NASA, the Aquarius habitat and its surroundings provide a convincing analog for space exploration. aquanauts can test spacewalk techniques for future space missions.

  • The first NEEMO crew, in front, Mike L pez-Alegr a and Bill Todd. in back, Mike Gernhardt and Dave WilliamsNASA Aquanaut Crew:Mark HulsbeckRyan Snow.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Michael Fincke, Commander[6][7]Sunita WilliamsMarc ReaganNURC Support Crew:Thor DunmireRyan Snow.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Jeffrey Williams, Commander[6][8]Gregory ChamitoffJohn D. OlivasJonathan DoryNURC Support Crew:Byron CrokerMichael Smith

  • NASA Aquanauts: Scott Kelly, Reisman, Hwang; James Talacek, Snow. neemo 5: pictured in bunkroom aboard the Aquarius research habitat.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Peggy Whitson, Commander[6][12][13][14]Clayton AndersonGarrett ReismanEmma HwangNURC Support Crew:James TalacekRyan Snow.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:John Herrington, Commander[15][16]Nicholas PatrickDouglas H. WheelockTara RuttleyNURC Support Crew:Craig B. CooperJoseph MarchMarc Reagan, Mission Director.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Robert Thirsk, Commander[17][18][19]Catherine ColemanMichael R. BarrattCraig McKinleyNURC Support Crew:James TalacekBilly CookseyBill Todd, Mission Director[16][21]

  • NASA Aquanaut crew:Michael L. Gernhardt, Commander[20][21]John D. OlivasScott KellyMonika SchultzNURC Support Crew:Craig B. Cooper

  • NASA Aquanauts: Dafydd Williams, Timothy J. Broderick, Nicole P. StottRonald J. Garan Jr.

  • NASA Aquanauts: Koichi Wakata, Andrew feustel, Mark Hulsbeck, marc Reagan.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Sandra Magnus, Commander[26][27]Robert L. BehnkenTimothy CreamerNURC Support Crew:Larry WardRoger GarciaMarc Reagan, Mission Director.

  • Aquanaut Broderick works with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), called Scuttle. NASA Aquanaut Crew:Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Commander.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew: Nicholas Patrick, Commander[30][31]Richard R. ArnoldSatoshi FurukawaChristopher E. GertyNURC Support Crew:James F. BuckleyDewey SmithMarc Reagan, Mission Director.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Chris Hadfield, Commander[32][33][34]Andrew AbercrombySteve ChappellAquarius Reef Base support crew:James TalacekNate BenderBill Todd, Mission Director.

  • NASA Aquanaut crew:Shannon Walker, Commander[35][36]Takuya OnishiDavid Saint-JacquesSteve SquyresAquarius Reef Base support crew:James TalacekNate BenderDeepWorker 2000submersiblecrew:Stanley G. Love.

  • NASA Aquanauts: Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Timothy Peake, Steve Squyres, Brown, Yui, Aquarius Reef base support crew: James Talacek.

  • NASA Aquanaut Crew:Joseph M. Acaba, CommanderKate RubinsAndreas MogensenSoichi NoguchiAquarius Reef Base support crew:[46]Mark HulsbeckOtto RuttenSeatest II: September 9-13, 2013.

  • NASA Aquanaut crew:Akihiko Hoshide, CommanderJeanette J. EppsMark T. Vande HeiThomas Pesquet. Aquarius Reef Base support crew:James Talacek.

  • NEEMO 19 crew: Jeffrey Hansen, Herv Stevenin,Andreas Mogensen, Bresnik. Aquarius Reef base support crew:Mark HulsbeckRyan LaPete.

  • NEEMO 20 mission objective was to simulate the time delays associated with sending and receiving commands between controllers on Earth and astronauts on Mars. additional EVAs will simulate working on the surface of an asteroid.

  • Unfavorable weather conditions have shifted the start of the mission to July 21, 2016. the mission was scheduled to begin July 18, 2016 and conclude August 3, 2016; however, the mission start was shifted to July 21.

  • Aquarius Reef Base support crew:Mark Hulsbeck(FIU)Sean Moore (FIU), Sean Moore (FiU)

  • All-female Aquanaut crew:[52]Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA, Commander.Shirley Pomponi, marine biologist at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute of Florida Atlantic University.

  • Continental Shelf Station TwoUndersea research habitat in the Red SeaSEALABExperimental underwater habitats developed by the United States Navy.

  • NASA (April 21, 2011). "NEEMO 5". NASA. Archived from the originalon April 5, 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2012. NOAA (August 9, 2004). "NASA - NEEMO 7". NASA. Retrieved May 17, 2010. Neemo 16 - In search of an asteroid. "NASA's Undersea Crew". nasaspaceflight.com.

  • NEEMOCoordinates:24 57 00 N 80 27 13 W/ 24.95000 N 80.45361 W / -24.95000; -80.35361.

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EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash paymentswww.consilium.europa.eu

The European Council has agreed on an anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism regulation and he has also approved a new directive on anti-money laundering. This will be followed by a set of measures to protect against money laundering and terrorism. First, the Council decides to make beneficial ownership rules more transparent; second, it clarifies certain aspects of beneficial ownership in order to speed up the process of identifying and verifying beneficial owners. Third, it makes it easier for banks and other financial institutions to track down suspicious transactions and information. Finally, it proposes that the proposed legislation be recast as a package of legislative proposal to strengthen the European's anti-money laundering laws.

  • The new EU anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) rules will be extended to the entire crypto sector. an EU-wide maximum limit of 10.000 is set for cash payments.

  • The Commission presented its package of legislative proposals to strengthen the EU's rules on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) This package consists of:a regulation establishing a new EU anti- money laundering authority (AMLA)

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Groundbreaking marks start of work on Penn Station Accesswww.trains.com

The project to connect the New York City subway, Long Island Rail Road and Amtrak to Penn station will be complete in 2027

  • The project will connect Metro-North to Penn, add four new stations in the Bronx. the project is currently projected to cost $3.18 billion.

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Yan tan tethera pethera pimp – an old system for counting sheep (2013)stancarey.wordpress.com

The narrator introduces us to the traditional Welsh counting system, called "Yan Tan tethera," which dates back to the 16th century. It is used in folklore and in music, and it can be heard throughout the world.

  • Ancient counting system used by shepherds in parts of the UK. names come from aBrythonic Celticlanguage, and they vary with geography. some numbers strongly suggestive of Welsh or Cornish, but origins are complex.

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Tauri Mobile Alpha Releasetauri.app

Tauri is now ready to run on the GoToMemory platform. we've already published a guide for how to get started, but here's what You need to know: TLS support has been removed from the Cargo feature and is now supported on both Mac and Win.

  • The first alpha release 2.0.0-alpha.0 has been published. the alpha version is now available on tauri mobile.

  • Update both NPM and Cargo dependencies to the 2.0.0-alpha.0 release. update the NPM dependencies with:npmYarn ClassicYarn Berrypnpmnpm

  • Preview You can adapt your existing desktop application to run on mobile or start a fresh project. Tauri runs on the connected device or starts an emulator if available.

  • Getting started Read the complete guide on thedocumentation website. Getting started Read the guide to Getting started on the documentation website.

  • Known issues TLS support has been moved behind a Cargo feature until we figure out how to cross compile OpenSSL on Windows. Currently running on a device is not supported when using Xcode 14.

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Simulated wormholes for my real friends, real wormholes for my simulated friends4gravitons.com

The narrator explains how people get news from two main sources: science fiction stories and public announcements. The first is an article in a magazine called "Quanta" that claims scientists have created wormhole using a quantum machine. The second is a piece by a physics journalist named Matthew Strassler who claims that they have made a real worm hole with a qubit-like device. This makes the reader wonder why physists would create such a thing. He says it's not because the article was wrong; it was just about two things: the title and the implications of creating a physical wormholodge. The title is confusing to him since it implies that he doesn't really make a sense out of what he's talking about. But there are some caveats which he thinks are important but don't bother to discuss. For example, if someone were trying to create a virtual wormhoove on a quadratical machine, then they wouldn't be able to do so. If they did, however, they could use a different kind of gravity for their experiment. They used a seven qubit model Instead of the original sevenqubit model. That way, they can see how the experiment works. Even though the Qua article might seem like a good idea, it may actually cause more people to read it than read the actual article. People will often look at the article as if it means something cool, or even ridiculous. Some readers might think that this is silly, but David notes that if he had seen the article when he was younger, he would have believed that we were making progress towards traveling through worm holes. Many other physics bloggers view themselves as seriously-minded people opposed to overhyped scientific experiments. These people feel betrayed because they find exciting things too exciting.

  • Physicists haven't created a wormhole in our own space-time, says david frum. he says the article's tone was a failure of journalistic integrity and science journalism. frum: if you're a scientist, you can't have a "wormhole" if it's not a simulation.

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Keep Your Identity Small (2009)www.paulgraham.com

In this paper, Harker explains why religion and politics yield such useless discussions. he argues that people Do not need to have expertise to express their opinions on topics like religion because they don't want to be over a certain threshold of expertise. This is the problem in politics as well: politics is a subject where there are no thresholds of expertise for making an opinion. The more precise questions tend to get the same fate than the vagueer ones. it is not politics that is the root of the trouble; it is identity. If you discuss a battle with citizens of one country or several countries, everyone would probably disagree about what side to go on. But if you talk about a war between two countries, nobody would know who sides to go off on. So When people say that discussion has degenerated into religious wars by talking about people's "identities," then it is wrong to conclude that these discussions are partisan. Instead, his theory suggests that people can have fruitful discussions only if they engage identities.

  • David frum: politics and religion yield uniquely useless discussions. he says politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise. frum says people can't have fruitful discussion about something that's part of their identity.

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Just use Postgres for everythingwww.amazingcto.com

HN explains how to use Postgres to reduce the complexity of your business and to speed up development. He uses it as a replacement for many of the backend technologies that are used in today's enterprise. He also discusses his experience with Stephan, a CTO Coach and founder of several fast-growing technology companies.

  • Postgres can replace - up to millions of users - many backend technologies, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Mongo and Redis among them. use Postgres for caching instead of Redis withUNLOGGED tables.

  • As a kid he taught himself coding in a department store around 1981 because he wanted to write video games. When the internet came to Germany in the 90s he worked as the first coder in several startups. he has founded a VC funded startup, worked as an. manager for ImmoScout and was a CTO of an eBay Inc. company.

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The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain't broken (2016)groups.di.unipi.it

Plan-9 is a completely new version of the Unix operating system, which was originally intended to be a "file-based" operating system. The idea behind it is that everything in the system is actually a file and not just a collection of objects. It's also important to note that many of the old features of the system are now gone. For example, you can now open a connection directly inside a namedspace instead of having to use an iot Cl as a way to do So. This means that no one ever complains about the missing promise of file abstraction. instead, everyone adopts the Berkeley socket API for doing network tasks. everyone else already uses the Berkeley Socket API too. finally, Plan 9 introduces a new level of abstraction into the entire process. One of the biggest problems with Plan 9 is that at least most of the people behind the system have never been used to creating commercially useful applications. They don't know how to create these valuable applications because they don1t know what kind of business they will be in when they launch their new product.

  • Plan-9 was an amazing new version of Unix created by the same team that created Unix. it was quite similar to Unix but it was not and it corrected many idiosyncrasies that Unix had and still has. plan-9's way to interact with the network needs a special explanation. if your service is worth being called a product or not, it is no simple matter of opinion.

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Ask HN: How to get back into AI?news.ycombinator.com

I'm a machine learner who used to be interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other stuff. I'd like to find some good resources to help me get back into it.

  • I was involved in machine learning and AI a few years ago. I am comfortable with autograd/computation graphs, PyTorch, "classic" neural nets and ones used for vision-type applications. Do you know of any good resources to slowly get back into the loop?

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This to Thatwww.thistothat.com

Because people have to glue things together to other things, copyright 1999-2012 thistothat is All right reserved.

  • People have a need to glue things to other thingsCopyright 1999-2022 thistothat.com. All rights reserved by trademarks, service marks, licenses, licensees.

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Elixir-style pipelines in Rubywww.gregnavis.com

This chapter introduces the concept of a "pipeline" in Ruby, which is Basically a collection of methods that can be used to create a flow of code. The first method has drawbacks, but it's more logical than using regular methods. Next, there's an argument at the end for what type of message should be sent: e mail or a message. It needs to be changed so that it doesn't have to deal with arguments coming at the last Step. in this article, we'll show how to use refinements to get rid of arguments and move the code closer to the front instead of backwards. We'll start by defining some basic definitions of operator definitions before moving on to other things. First, we need to define "Parameterized operations," which are just like parameterless operations. A new method will help here, since all object types respond to the same method. Finally, we want to move the pipeline from front-to-back. That way, no matter what class or function you're working on, you can write exactly the same code as everyone else does. so now we've got a nice set of abstractions built into Ruby. and then let's talk about how we want our code to be useful inside a Rails controller. Let'd like us to build up a simple example of how we could implement a pipeline without having to worry about running out of time.

  • The pipeline argument comes at the end, but would be more consistent with the pipeline structure. operations taking more than one parameter must be implemented as higher-order procs or use currying. the rest of the article shows how to use Ruby refinements.

  • The pipeline can now be defined as:Due to currying, the first argument to be provided in the pipeline, while the execution is paused" untilthe first argument is provided, too.

  • The snippet hints at what needs to be done and that method must call. a top-level class (or) must be modified to makeavailable on all objects.

  • Introducing refinements Refinements are a topic for a separate article. they are monkey-patches that can be enabled inside a specific module or class by calling.

  • The first approach was object-oriented and didn't have the drawbacks mentioned above. i'll cover it in an upcoming article.

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Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Tradelithub.com

The narrator discusses how books are bought and sold in the bookshop. He notes that there are still people who buy and sell books for more than they have paid for them. one day, he finds a copy of Burns in a customer's box. It is handwritten by Maclean Esquire, but it says that his friend cannot think that Maggs's edition is worth much money. The next day, another customer asks him to help him sell an item that claims to contain evidence that Napoleon was poisoned and died of stomach-cancer. After several requests from the same man, David agrees to help with the sale. on Monday morning, Granny comes to pick up her parents' books. She has a bunch of them wrapped in string so that they can be transported to the book shop. A woman comes in at 11am and spends an hour telling him what she loves. She then leaves without buying something. At midnight, she tells him that it is her birthday. Later, she opens a glass of champagne. When total 71.004 customersMARCH that seems to be the literary tradition that novels are frugal. There are also some characters who are miserly; Henry Earlforward is one Such example. He had a wedding ring which he thought was too expensive for his wife because of the price on the ticket. but when he saw her looking at the note, though, she knew that it was genuine. This would not have been different had Maggs sold the emperor's penises to the museum instead of to an American book dealer. Even Williamson admits that "In works of literature, the secondhand bookseller" is a strange compound of imagination

  • A second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, lincolnshire, sells books for a fraction of the price of a new book. the bookshop owner, R. m. Maggs, is a distinguished force in the world of rare and antiquarian bookselling. he says he's never met a miserly bookseller, but he does have a good sense of humor.

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