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The really worrisome part for me is that legislation is being passed on this as well. As someone that has asthma and was previously an analog cigarette smoker I would find myself sick several times per year with a cough that would taper on for weeks. After leaving analogs behind and moving on to vaping I've been sick twice in 3.5 years or so.

I'm fully aware that vaping is not a healthy decision, however, it's certainly significantly safer than smoking analog cigarettes.
How is the healthcare system in India? Google gives me conflicting answers.
How would you read that information?
This very much reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0 which they did a couple of year ago
Well there's the American Natives, which are a conundrum because they both had hard animals to work with (I think they did manage to domesticate turkeys, but not buffaloes) but some still managed to farm and hybridize crops.

many points are debated here, there are also some links to start https://www.quora.com/Farming-Why-didnt-the-Native-Americans...

disclaimer: I know nothing of the subject and my initial hunch was pure conjecture.
I make sure to always spell it wrong on the characters I can tell the botnet couldn't figure out

Its a small rebellious act of mine (that is for moot because I'm sure they give the same captcha to other users for verification)
The reporting around this measurement was truly awful. I live in Japan, and it freaked out a bunch of my friends when really nothing had changed.

It was also an estimate made based on the amount of noise seen on CCD camera images. That's a really awful way to measure radiation.
Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I like your idea to show very few on home page and providing a link to browse all other. Though these are all add-ons(paid), our base product WC Marketplace is a totally free WordPress plugin. We believe if we can increase user base of our base plugin then automatically sale of our paid addons increase. That's why most of the CTA redirects to WordPress site to promote downloading our plugin.
Is Swift on the server a good idea? I don't own (or plan to own) a Mac. Does Apple support cross-platform tooling? I honestly don't know, but given their history, my default assumption is to be skeptical.

Why would you choose this over Go or Rust? (Rust is totally sweet for server dev, and I've spun up a few Rust servers for things.)
You can read about some of them at https://indiehackers.com
I thought he meant that you could encode more than one of two states. For a very base analogy, instead of just - and | representing 1 and 0, you could have - \ | / representing 00, 01, 10, 11, etc. Wifi does something similar with signal phase.
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Dumbphone is a long way from not being contactable at all.

The idea is you can still get in touch with anyone at any time, and anyone can get in touch with you. You simply have a tiny effort filter so you don't see what everyone had for lunch etc.

It's like storing cookies in the kitchen instead of having a bowl of them next to you as your reading this. Most people can have cookies in the house without eating them right now. Few people I know can sit next to such a bowl for hours without eating them.
Yet another CAPTCHA failure.

Here's the problem Google needs to fix. If I'm logged into my account, years old, obviously not a complaint against it, I still end up getting this captcha nonsense. Doesn't matter the site.
Se his own answer. My response mirrors his. And there have been coal fires and explosions that have killed more people in single incidents too.

The point is that if you're going to worry about risks, the moral thing to do would be to get rid off coal even if your alternative is massive increases in nuclear.

> Something like the dam does not compare, it is not one or the other, and it is not long-lasting damage.

No it does not, it is several magnitudes more deaths and millions of homeless.

As for long-lasting damage, hydro projects are amongst the most devastating power plant projects we have, routinely displacing millions of people from their homes forever, submerging entire cities, destroying vast forest areas and animal habitats, and setting off ticking environmental disasters in the form of rotting vegetation releasing vast amounts of CO2.

So, no, dams do not compare - they are some of the least environmentally friendly options we have, and have killed a lot more people (even excluding Banqiao), and made far larger areas uninhabitable.
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses Have a nice list with interviews
I enjoyed the reasoning behind using HTML supported typography more than anything in this article.
You seem to somewhat contradict yourself here. On one had you speak of overriding parliamentary authority, on the other of Parliament steering away from "complex and various sources of law".

But your focus on advocates bring the law to the judges attention seems to support the parent comment, judges "discover" the law. Certainly statute overrides all, but the point of common law is that the statute is always insufficient. It is not enough to deal with the facts of any given case. I don't know much about the UK legal system, but in the US rulings on statute become codified as "precedent". Important and relevant decisions are published, circulated, cataloged, studied and effectively become the law. Any case that is litigated starts with a series of briefs on what the parties feel is relevant case law. It also might include briefs filed by interested parties, studies of the legislative process to determine intent and so on. That is all very much in the realm of "discovery".
How does rust deal with numbers in JS given that a u64 is unrepresentable in a native JS number type? Does it simply keep an array of byte values around instead?
Hard is not a problem. Confused and socially constructed is.

The scientific method is a process of reduction to the approximation the truth (of what is) by systematic elimination of nonsense, which is quite contrary to pseudo-scientific process of piling up speculative nonsense upon nonsense in order to gain a certain social status and funding, which is, by the way, is how theologians and "philosophers" of religion used to get their living.
Using some other bot-filtering system would prevent it. Of course the makers of that filter would be able to bypass it, but I guess you could use multiple filters...!
I'm running http://fairpixels.co, a logo design service which we've set up as a productised service (removing all the back and forth hassle and packaging it as a product)

It's been doing well, with over $80k made last year.

Biggest takeaway is that packaging a service like a product doesn't just make things easier for the service provider, it's actually a much better/smoother experience for the customer.
i am interested. how to contact you offline?
Travelling Salesman solver with WebGL
Empirical experiment.

Did you even read the article before ranting at the concept?
people back then were much leaner, especially in US. not that many sugary foods, much more natural daily workout in lives.

also, dressing standard were much higher - all my grandparents dress(ed) much better than me. they simply don't have t-shirt in their wardrobe, but proper buttoned shirts for everything including garden work.

same when I was backpacking around india - for 3 month trip, you carry around only necessities, synthetic shirts which dry quickly in that super-humid environment etc. practically everybody there had proper shirts and suit pants and shoes - difference with western backpackers was very stark and I felt like a savage there on numerous occasions
Its official name has been Jupyter for a while now (3 years), since IPython was decoupled from the notebook.

Please do not use ad-hominem.
Of course I'd like e-cigarettes to be a risk-free panacea, however, I'd also like a lot of things to be different in the world. What I do know is that e-cigarettes surely seem significantly less burdensome on health than analog cigarettes.
The problem with just linking to Indie Hackers is that most are not productized services but actual products. That means people are going to have to search through each business to try and find an actual productized service.
Those aren't services. Those are mostly products and SaaS
Keeping up with modern software engineering
Have been spending my past 3 years consulting and designing middleware-based solutions in large corporate/enterprisey environments with old school tech like SVN. With all the buzzwords like Sonarqube, Gradle, Fortify, NGINX, Puppet/Ansible, Docker, Github surfacing on a daily basis (yup I do still browse through hacker news during my train commute) surfacing more in some of the client environments, I don't quite know where to start with these. Any experiences/pathway that fellow hackers here can recommend?
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Yeah, I get lightheaded and stupid (basically feel fairly drunk) around hours 14-16 without eating. I've been informed the solution to this is a keto diet. Ugh, not worth it.
> But given the lack of clear answers, I'd much rather err on the side of preventing victimization.

In America, we have historically low crime rates and historically low violent crime rates. Simultaneously, we have an insane crisis of prison overpopulation that leads into multi-generational cycles of poverty.

I too would rather err on the side of preventing victimization.

Right now, from where I sit, over-criminalization is a bigger problem than violent crime.
They're for different kinds of work, really. I use a Leuchtturm1917 with a nice fountain pen for deep thinking and analysis, and org-mode for running notes while doing work.

org-mode is very deep, and you shouldn't try to learn it all at once. Start off small in a way that you find it useful, then start adding in features as you need. There's no need to use all, or even many, of the features for most use cases.

But it's nice to have them when needed.
Or if more than one person lives in a household where there is an alleged consumer. If it's such a "strict liability" then the whole family should be hauled off to jail (including kids, there's no exemption that children can "possess" it).

* Not saying I actually want that to happen, but just pointing out that "strict liability" logic breaks down real quick.
Most aren't services but products and apps. Finding the services in a sea of products/apps is going to be more work than it is worth for a question like this.
IBM, the purveyor of Rational/Websphere suite of Java tools and appservers talking about Java memory usage is sign of changing times. I hope they do better job this time with Swift tools and frameworks.
Wow! How did you manage to sell a service that relies on your personal skillset? Care to share the $ region it sold for?
Twitter has shut down its office in Berlin
Actually based on a short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life
Not hundreds, but they have tested one of the boosters they recovered about 8-10 times through a full flight cycle in Texas. Doing it hundreds of times would cost a lot of money just in propellant! And the boosters (pre-Block 5) are supposed to be good for around 10 uses.

And they do test the engines a LOT. Each new engine is separately acceptance-fired (less than full mission, but not just a burp) in Texas, then integrated into a full stage and acceptance-fired again in Texas. Then, the stage is brought to the launch site and a very short static fire test is done. If there are any last-second aborts (i.e. after engine ignition but before clamp release), that puts another short cycle on the engine. So launch will be at least the 4th firing of each engine. And if it's the center engine, it'll do a boost-back burn, an entry burn, and a landing burn. So the engines get a lot of work done even on a nominal mission before we talk about reflying the stages.

And since each Falcon 9 takes 10 engines, that means they do (depending on the mission type) around 40-50 engine firings per launch, so yeah, over a half dozen or so launches, they ARE indeed doing hundreds of engine firings, just not all on the same engine and same booster.
Question I've found myself running into with org-mode. How do you use it to collaborate and share notes with others?

I work in a Windows shop (Microsoft data platform partner), and most of my coworkers don't even know what emacs is. I can always export my own notes to HTML or similar for others to consume, but most of my coworkers are using OneNote. I prefer org-mode to OneNote, but for convenience I use OneNote since we can collaborate better.

I didn't find anything that can ingest and spit out OneNote compatible notebooks when I looked.
What's that got to do with Bangladesh?
Atom storage has been done before by others. This example at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2002 comes to mind:

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/080702/Ultimate_memory_de...
Things like 'smartphone addiction' are why I believe software developers should have a strong professional code of ethics.

Does nobody notice when they're writing software with features designed around user "engagement" and "retention" that they're doing a disservice to their users? If not outright building addictions?

I think a most developers do notice pieces of it, but don't connect the dots and/or rationalize it with some "mutual benefit" mental hand-waving.

Taking ethics seriously would force us to confront the idea of software built for addiction. Show us how to spot it, and remove the mental wiggle room to minimize it.

There is a set of common software practices that rise from iterating designs and throwing ideas up to A/B test that are so psychologically manipulative it would seen as downright sociopathic if it was planned from the get-go. - I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but if we can't even get rid of those, what chance do we have overall?
>how do these help? increasing landlord costs would result in them raising their rents to cover the difference

Actually, counter-intuitively, it would probably bring rents down.

A lot of housing is now held on to like a bar of gold and not used - previously expected to just keeping increasing in value. These taxes would arrest that rise and potentially cause a drop. This would lead to a lot of spare housing being rented out in an attempt to recoup investment losses.

Also, since it would push up costs for home owners it would make many of them bite the bullet and rent out a spare room to help with the mortgage repayments.

Since investment in new property in the UK (we're not talking about rural Iowa here), is determined primarily by plots of land becoming available it's unlikely to throttle new building.
This isn't meant to provoke, but may I ask why?

What is technology to you?

Is it the possibility of notifications to pop up while reading on a phone/tablet?

Books is also a technology. I honestly don't see the difference other than how it displays letters.
It's a claim made by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel. Wikipedia has a pretty well cited section on "Behavioural preadaptation"[0] however I can't speak to its accuracy as I haven't read any of the literature.

I'd be pretty interested in seeing a domesticatability comparison of the guanaco (wild predecessor of the domesticated llama still in existence today) vs. the zebra.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_animals#Behav...
Great start! Looks good works well. Can't wait to see more.
Dr. PG has a Youtube channel? I never knew.

This looks awesome!
It's only commercially feasible if SpaceX is willing to sell that service. They are pretty firmly committed to the philosophy of reuse.

They have to fly expendable now, because customers can just fly on Ariane/Atlas/etc if SpaceX said no. Once Falcon Heavy is flying, there won't be any competitors with the same payload capacity (until New Glenn, which is also planning first stage reuse, but is still very much a paper rocket at this point).
I can't wait to get my hands on one of these. If they work out as I expect them to I could see my company buying several 100 of these a year.
So you don't recommend using a minifier? In all seriousness, I don't think anyone is recommending using one with known bugs but there will likely always be some latent bugs that aren't known.
> However, the actual end user who has to fill out the recaptcha does not benefit in any significant way.

This isn't true. The end user benefits in a very obvious way by being able to use a site that hasn't been crippled or spammed by bots. It is very possible that many sites either would not exist or would be of much worse quality without a recaptcha-like service.

Everyone profits from recaptcha.
The stuff in Appendix C worries me a little. Dividing the numerator and denominator indeed does not change the output at timestep t. However, if you use the new, smaller numerator and denominator at later timesteps, later outputs will be affected.

Suppose, for example, that you divide the numerator and denominator by 2, giving n/2 and d/2. In the next timestep, suppose a<0. You now do n=n/2+za and d=d/2+a. What you really ought to be doing is (n+za)/2 and (d+a)/2. In other words, once you scale n and d by some factor, all later timesteps should have that same factor thrown in (in order to preserve the outputs from the theoretical model).

If you do things the way I suspect, then any positive value of `a` essentially gives more priority to later timesteps (since their numerators and denominators are not scaled down by the theoretically necessary amount). This seems to defeat most of the purpose of the model.

Edit: by the way, I tried looking through your code to figure out what it was actually doing. However, it does seem like you are doing what I thought. If I am correct, then your numerical stability code does actually affect the model's output.
It was more the 'if you must' part. Like it's permissible for now, to wean you off, but of course the end goal is complete disconnection.
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Ouch. The bank's actions seem kind of ridiculous.

The guide doesn't seem to push Delaware C-corp status on its readers, but the specificity might give them that impression anyhow. Personally, I'd split that section into two: C corps in general, and Delaware in particular. I'd also add a paragraph or two that discuss why people might choose not to incorporate Delaware in favor of another state. That way, it would avoid unconsciously guiding readers towards a choice that may not be much benefit to them. Reincorporating elsewhere might be more difficult later on, but it could help you avoid immediately incurring some additional costs in the interim: additional reporting requirements, franchise taxes, registered agent, etc.
You don't go into my most important figure, which is 100 m/s speed limit: this means that we can simulate a brain in a server room of any reasonable size (10,000 computers are no problem), racing back and forth thousands of times without issue. That radically simplifies the task, and makes the 1k-10k sources much easier.

You mention membrane dynamics, past spiking history, etc - but neural nets accomplish a lot without these things.

A simplification surely works. You are not thinking about simulating a brain using a large cluster with a lot of back and forth.

Why not? Don't you get how incredibly slow 100 m/s is? This is 7 orders of magnitude difference in speed. Silicon is seven orders of magnitude faster at signal propagation than the brain, which isn't electrical.

To you this doesn't unlock vast possibilities for simulating the analog in real time? It just doesn't seem that permanently impossible, given the results you are already claiming are occurring.

Also although I directly addressed you, I guess you don't have any answer as to why someone would choose a target date like "never" or "300 years" as opposed to some reasonable extrapolation of the results being achieved today.
Maybe... Elon is pretty firmly committed to reuse though. SpaceX is occasionally flying expendable now because they have to compete with Ariane and Atlas. Once Falcon Heavy flies, there won't be any such pressure.
> Have used tools like this before, and invariably end up accidentally stripping styles from an <insert JS UI lib> component with a dynamically assigned className or something equally silly.

The only way I can think to handle this is if you've got a really thorough test suite in Selenium or similar. Do a before and after, capture screengrabs of everything and flag up where the 'new' CSS has caused visual differences.

It's a horrible solution but then it's a horrible problem.
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Invest heavily for developed nations is usually meant as an umbrella term for a combination of subsidies, tax credits, grants in specific research area and also sometimes direct investment by the Federal and State Governments.
> What else is he doing to your traffic?

Replacing asinine Hacker News comments with meaningful ones.
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Did you really "neutralize" the IME?

I guess you refer to a procedure as described in

https://hardenedlinux.github.io/firmware/2016/11/17/neutrali...

I would say what you did is to "neutralize" the ME firmware part in the flash BIOS. But this is only firmware that the ME loads additionally to load applications like e.g. AMT.
The ME has it's own internal ROM containing it's very own firmware which is inaccessible and can not be modified.

So what you have is libreboot running on top of a still functional IME. All you gained is, that you got your BIOS of choice installed, and to remove some ME apps from the flash image. Correct me if I am wrong.
> Modularity doesn't mean compartmentalization, or isolation, of failure, which is impossible in general

It's not impossible. There are two ways to do it:

(0) Static: Prevent the deployment of incorrectly constructed modules. Obviously impossible in an evolutionary setting (life).

(1) Dynamic: Require every module to check its own inputs, internal state and output. Admittedly, this is at odds with performance, which arguably matters most in a competitive setting (life).

In general, I wouldn't borrow inspiration from biology. Life forms are too busy trying to survive to bother being perfect. But programmers have a moral obligation to be Intelligent Designers.
Agreed, processed bad. Guess that's why the comment on lentil and rice seemed odd to me, it's pretty great.
I think it's great. I'm absolutely pro-renewables.

That doesn't change the fact that there are enormous political, financial, social, and technical problems to address before renewables can become a viable alternative to nuclear and coal.
The Swift Open Source community is quite vibrant. They're already building it on Linux + macOS. See: https://github.com/apple/swift

Edit: They also have a Platform Support page, where they discuss their goals/intentions on cross-platform: https://swift.org/about/#platform-support
Why would it matter if it was cross platform if it is running on a server?
This is some amazing copypasta work. Thank you.
Jakub Travnik has got your back. http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html
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The alternative would be you're doing different work (i.e. more intellectually demanding) on each different site as they invent their own CAPTCHA, and rather than benefitting anybody, it would just be an annoyance between you and the content you want to reach.

IMO, this is strictly better.
Because the officially supported platform, macOS/iOS, isn't a server platform anymore.
Developing on Mac, deploying on Linux, which could be x86 or ARM, etc? MacOS isn't really a server platform, definitely not a cloud OS.
Because in the article Deaton uses India also ("...But if you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta...").