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The full book is not yet available anywhere. It's self-published (and I mean that literally; I'm doing the printing and binding myself, to discourage making it another $.99 Kindle throwaway or having a crappy low-res PDF version of it floating on torrents or sci-hub).

List price on it will be in the hundreds of dollars. I'm not trying to sell as many copies as cheaply as possible, which might be hard for some people to understand.

Message me your info and I'll give you a discount on price.

Elemental carbon is probably the wrong goal: keeping a limited pool of CO2 and thermally converting it to CO, then water-shifting the CO into CO2 + H2 is far more practical.

If you want to bury the carbon, it's more practical to bury it as a hydrocarbon, which is easily accomplished with the CO + H2 used through Fischer-Tropsch.

If you want to convert the carbon back into food, there's probably some clever process to convert F-T product oil into sugars and carbohydrates.
Bit hard to explain without examples but while traversing the beziers in shader, I test if we are equidistant to two or more beziers and do special handling to merge the two unclamped fields (normally we clamp 't' between [0, 1] when sampling bezier distance, but for merging two fields we can project it infinitely and then select closest).
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We can do this via the store's aforementioned failure reporting. I guess it could be better? I prefer to have a log of all messages since forever, as in Event Sourcing.

Seems like that is more trouble than it's worth to try to make everything happen purely on a message bus, though the mechanism for letting the system know a new event arrived is a message bus, it just includes the message id, for us.
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No mention of genetics. The Finns are different from the rest of Europe.

When gnomAD, the current largest population sequencing project clustered Euro genomes together the biggest divide was between Finns and non Finns.
Probably an unpopular opinion here: I personally find that I understand and remember things a lot better if I learn them from video (as opposed to reading text alone). Anyone else like this?
SaaS with a strict privacy policy should do it for most customers. You could have varying levels of privacy at different price tiers. E.g. a free tier where some PII is sold and go from there.
Yes, that fold, but specifically that leading point of it. Often the back can have a reference point, like having the edge of the wing meet the bottom rear corner of the fuselage. But yeah, the fold in general is often more arbitrary. But not really; you would try to fold a plane as consistently as possible, so something like 'begin the fold 1/8" from the tip of the nose' isn't arbitrary at all.

Similarly, you often don't want to fold right to a crease, as it can cause bunching. It's often a better idea to leave a mm or so of extra space for inward folds. Doesn't make the design less pure or anything though.
Thanks for the reply. Very interesting stuff.
I have serious health issues. My mother is German and I speak a little German, though not that well. However, I would have had early exposure to the language.

I have had a few incidents where, for an hour or so, I was exhausted and distressed and couldn't manage to speak English, only German. I could understand English, but not speak it.
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It's better than indicated in GP, but as an indicator of how good modern CPUs are in comparison to older ones, this page page overstates the case. The older CPU is 4-core but 8-thread (hyperthreads), the newer one is 8-core and 8-thread (no hyperthreads). The multi-core benchmarks are much higher for the newer CPU because it has twice as many cores, so that is inflating the overall score quite a bit. That said, it's not as simple as halving that score, as hyperthreads don't scale quite the same way, so it depends on how the multi-core test is formulated.

Edit: Oh, wow, as taspeotis points out it's not even the same two CPUs in the original Intel Ark comparison (which I was working off of from memory when noting cores and threads). The i9-9700k is actually an 8-core and 16-thread (hyperthreads) CPU, so it is actually literally twice as many cores and threads. It's still better performance, but not nearly as lopsided as it even seemed before, given those resources.
>Personally I'd rather get rid of all of my passwords and use FIDO2

FIDO2 should be implemented in many more areas but it shouldn't be exclusively relied on for authentication. Authentication should require proof of person/entity (something you have, a FIDO2 key) and proof of volition (using a password stored in their brain that their will decides to produce/disclose)
One of his three YouTube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFy30kxfh4
You can be compelled to act exactly as you would as if the NSL had not been issued, and indeed they seem to contain language to that effect. A reasonable response would be to adopt a policy of "no comment" and most do, but if you have previously responded to questions about NSLs in the negative, you would then be required to continue doing the same.

Q: Have you received an NSL?
A: No.
Q: Now have you received an NSL?
A: Still nope.
(Government issues NSL)
Q: What about now?
A: No comment.

^ This would be a clear canary indication that an NSL has been issued, which is in directly contradiction of the terms of the secrecy requirements laid out in the NSL. The only reasonable response (aside from supporting the ACLU and EFF to end this nonsense) is to adopt the "no comment" policy early, which most do. However Apple has now broken that strategy, if they haven't already.
Hold up - they didn’t “have to” let anyone go, they chose to because they wanted to hire other people.
> This opinion is hard to swallow. This is not . at . all true.

I used to think so too. Then I saw how my child learns stuff with far greater command of underlying concepts and connections through video and realized it's probably just a function of how I learned to learn or am used to growing up without essentially videos on any topic available on demand.

I have observed that the learning my child acquires through video is actually not "book learning" (the term exists for a reason) but much more nuanced, vicarious and realistic in a way text simply isn't. If fact, my child's goto for understanding something "let us search for a video on YouTube that will teach us how to do X". From an information theory standpoint this also makes sense.

So let's allow for the possibility that our opinions are simply shaped by our experiences of growing up without readily accessible video and reality for our children may be different.
I think it's interesting that you quote Stevenson (and more broadly draw in the restorative justice movement here) because one of the core pieces of restorative justice is admitting your wrongs and making concrete steps towards making amends and being a better person. I'm not sure that it has much useful to tell us about how to evaluate someone like Gandhi (or Churchill, or King). It's a useful framework in a conversation about what someone like James Gunn or Louis CK would need to do to make amends, but for dead people, I don't know if it's a particularly useful tool for evaluating someone like Gandhi (or King or Churchill).

For the dead, I think we need to always resist the urge to make saints of humans, and to offer a clear-eyed accounting - what they did, right and wrong, as well as we can evaluate it. And we need to periodically reevaluate them, because things that weren't recognized as morally wrong at the time or shortly afterwards (like Churchill's war crimes and reprehensible racist attitudes, or Gandhi's refusal to condemn the caste system) or things that weren't widely known (like Gandhi's habit of sleeping nude with pre-teen and teenage girls) aren't always recognized as immoral in the first evaluation. It's not diminishing someone to evaluate them honestly, it's the only way to truly honor them.
The property that attracts the most mission critical use cases is the ability to keep transactions rolling without loss of guarantees, even while hitting the typical cloud failure modes. Some applications can't make tradeoffs between correctness and global availability, for them FaunaDB's mainframe-like capabilities are key.

For the average application, the benefit is that you don't need to write code to address database drift / eventual consistency. I expect Fauna-like systems to gain popularity as more developers come to expect cloud-native solutions to offer global ACID transactions.
> What does seem clear now is that Facebook’s executives’ statements about video should not have been a factor in news publishers’ decisions to lay off their editorial staffs. But it’s hard not to conclude that publishers heard that rhapsodizing about the future and assumed that Facebook knew better than they did, that Facebook’s data must be more accurate than their own data was, that Facebook was perceiving something that they could not. That their own eyes were wrong.

If you're making massive, sweeping changes to the structure of your business and product offering based on Facebook PR, you deserve to go out of business.

What FB said could have even been true and these organizations could have staffed up on all video only to later become victims of an algorithm change or some arbitrary FB rule in the future.
It's interesting because in a prior post I had made illustrating why people have such strong animosity towards the rich it was claimed that I have that exact mentality.

In reality, the poor and middle class are the crabs trying to escape the wealthy wanting to boil us is the best way I can put it.
There are so many conspiracy theories around how the story could be true, but seemingly no theories about what happens if the story is false.
A highly dense population will always experience activity. Unless you're going into private properties, which is generally a prosecutable offence so don't do it, you wouldn't know which buildings have high or low occupancy. This is reflected by a decline in a number of luxury real estate markets worldwide - the lights are on, but nobody's home.

Taxes across the board became oppressive in Rome - it was corruption that funneled funds to those who benefited. Not all wealthy are the same in their quest for control and power, or lack thereof.

Coinage records show a rapid collapse in the economy after a long period of gradual decay[1].

There is nothing new under the sun.

[1] https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/west-is-imp...
Because theoretically batteries aren't needed for thermal. You capture the heat during the day but you can use it day and night.
You can have pin entry on a touch screen. Indeed Not as easy as not having pin entry, due to those security standards, but it is possible. Have a look at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/assessors_and_solutions... and filter on ‘touch screen, as entry technology. Populair name is pin-on-glass.
Use archive.fo

https://archive.fo/3pftd
I'm really quite curious what the solar tech space will look like when we no longer have fossil fuels for the production of solar tech.

Hopefully we can come up with some seriously great tech with low fossil fuel dependency before we hit issues there.
It's funny that you immediately jump to an assumption that I am not doing well.

The reality is that I'm doing fine in my career and managed to escape poverty for many reasons I've illustrated in the past. However what I saw and what I was trying to explain is that I saw my parents destroy their body (and in one case, lose their life) trying to improve their situation in a country that hardly gave a shit. I recall vividly the troubles my family had after my mother had a stroke because insurance companies decided that a stroke was a pre-existing condition despite her being in otherwise good condition.

Maybe you should stop making assumptions about people based on our animosity towards people that have actively made our lives worse in the past.
This is true, but can't you address the same problem without a PAKE by simply remembering the server certificate public key (or at least its issuing CA)? Remember: browsers don't support PAKEs now. So consider: what's the least required mechanism to solve the problem you're posing?

I agree the PAKE theoretically does a better job on this problem. But does it do that job so much better as to justify its inclusion in a protocol?
When a business with a fiduciary duty to its shareholders takes a political stance, it always is.
Yes, that's what I said, in response to a comment that said they pay 0. Who are you arguing with?
In my experience its the opposite. Companies form around the business plan of exploiting FOSS by hosting, solicit buckets of VC money, and give nothing back. It's completely unsustainable.

It's totally rational to create a license model that prevents hosting to third parties, but still allows end users to adopt the technology without paying. As has been pointed out elsewhere, that may not be right for all OS projects, but it should be an option.
If the ads are in any way related to conversions, the data comes home to roost very, very quickly.

Ad spends are measured and results are tracked.

The value of those ads is a function of how far the needle is moved.

It's only when the needle can only be loosely measured can this go awry. For example, in a brand awareness campaign, it's sometimes hard to measure effect.

If FB was reporting '80% viewed' when it was '20%' then it's basically fraud.

What some guy says at a conference about 'the future of ads' is almost irrelevant, people are saying things all the time, and even if companies were to allocated more budget there ... they should see the results for themselves and adjust.
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I think this really boils down to:

1) Have an api gateway (for them, graphql).
2) Store state in a (most likely distributed) store.
3) Have services interact with state via an event system.

All this really says is make your applications stateless. This is a trend that has been going on for a while.

I don't think GraphQL nor serverless is required and are just specific to their implementation.

Unless I totally missed what they were going for.
Prior restraint, I think.
Things sound very difficult out west. Rent can be had for under $500 in many southeastern cities. That being said, most of the newish industrial jobs are out in rural areas. Although Doreen Michele seems to be referencing online jobs, so I may be missing the context.
I wonder what the numbers look like per _homeless_ person in the city.
I hope it passes AND makes homelessness worse. SF residents deserve to suffer the consequences of their spineless liberal idiocy.
Apple made a statement, that they have are not under NSL/gag. They don’t routinely make these statements, and they weren’t asked directly about it.

They therefore are not “acting exactly as they would” without a NSL.
Is he under the same burden to tell the truth, legally speaking, as the current chief counsel?
Half the people's reactions here rely on them believing the US Security Apparatus and large corporations are... honest.

God, people.
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An important application of principal component analysis is "low-rank approximation of matrices"; very roughly, this can be used for "dimension reduction": Substituting a system of hundreds of thousands of equations by a system with only hundreds.

This is neatly illustrated by applying the technique to compress images, even if all the usual compression techniques actually employ vastly different methods. An interactive demo is here: https://timbaumann.info/svd-image-compression-demo/
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Oh man.

I moved to the US to work for Pivotal. I spent my first 6 months thinking: they're going to sack me. They realise they made a mistake. I am useless.

Slowly it faded.

Every once in a while I will be in a situation where I am thrashing. Guess what I start thinking? Right: they're going to sack me. They realise they made a mistake. I am useless.

I've worked on about a dozen products now with various languages, user-facing-ness, technical novelty and so on. Every. Freaking. Time. I join a team I flail and I feel like I'm a drag on all of these brilliant people and that I am going to be fired ...

The difficulty with mental health is that you cannot find an objective yardstick that your emotional self will accept. The brain is just not made that way. It's the ultimate clusterfuck spaghetti code, hacked together over billions of years with multiple competing subsystems that flop into temporary control of things before oozing away again. You are unaware of how totally everything is in your head because the man is behind the curtain and you're paying no attention to him.

This Is The World, the you that thinks it's you thinks. I Have Always Been An Impartial Observer, continues the part of you that is anything but impartial and about as observant as a drunken brick tumbling down a hill.

These are terrible struggles. Anxious me is convinced all the awful things will happen. Depressed me is convinced that none of the good things will ever happen. Feeling-kinda-OK me knows, of course, that everything is going to be fine and wow would you look at that sunset, what a beauty...

The various flavours of my self which seize custody of my life at various times are all equally, totally convinced that they are the keepers of the true truth, that the other truths are false.

It helps to see that you cannot get out of yourself. That's the secret. When you know that you are not a single unitary thing, you get a tiny bit of perspective, a tiny bit of leverage over any of yourselves. You can say to the anxious self: yes, fine, doom and gloom, but for the moment let's just suspend our disbelief. You can say to the depressed self: yes, fine, it's pointless and even breathing is a muffled insult to your suffering, but let's go see the therapist and psychiatrist anyway. Because we've been here before, we'll be here again, and we can manage it.

One last thing: start getting treatment. You aren't alone, anxiety and depression are treatable and seeking treatment is important. Especially since, because you are smart, you will be able to invert anything positive anyone says to you -- other than a seasoned professional who understands the deep dynamics that conceal you from yourself.
> since they include ancient Greek and old-time islamic ancestry (as far as I know)

AFAIK most of the genetic variation in Italy dates back from ancient times. Everyone thinks "of course, it was the Islamic invasions in Sicily and the Germanic invasions in the North", but the genetic impact of those was surprisingly small. The variation was there before.

The Greek colonization of southern Italy is the one historical migration that _did_ have significant impact, according to the article.
I heard a take on this story in a book about origami (origami airplanes, I guess? It's been long enough I don't specifically remember the source). The artist said, roughly, that if you crumple up a sheet of paper, dip it in water, squish it hard, let it dry, and then throw it as far as you can, it will go quite far. A paper airplane must go farther otherwise it might as well not be a paper airplane.
More protocol mechanism => more code => more memory disclosure bugs. That's literally how Heartbleed happened, and in a crypto protocol, no less.
How exactly do canaries work, then? Isn't the point there that you have a canary that you remove later?
Side note: very nice graphics. Where did you have them designed?
Those are all inherently limited by the replacement cost of the insured item. With health insurance, there is no replacement cost.
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But if you do DNS resolution yourself you'll loose privacy.

You'll probably always be able to run your own. If you so desire.
Side note: very nice graphics. Where did you design them?
Electron I understand, but what's wrong with Qt?
Depends, borrowing money to buy a car and needing to borrow money to buy a car are 2 distinct things. I recently got financing for a new car because they gave me thousands of dollars discount for doing so. Over the course of the loan, if I pay it according to the full 5 year schedule they'll obviously get more in interest back but I plan to pay it off very quickly (and yes, I did make sure the financing contract allows to do that without having to pay off the entire schedule interest, only the interest accumulated until the time of the payoff).

As for the general idea what people should do with their money, I try to avoid those discussions because it's just a matter of priorities. To you it's more important to use your money to do other things, to others it's important that they drive a nice car. Life is too short and we should spend it pursuing that which makes us happy.
In a previous discussion of this on HN, there was some disagreement about whether what is described by Bloomberg is a viable approach. But I don't know enough to know how valid the debate is.
*in the US.
Yes - it is one thing to remove it from official records - it is a whole other thing to ask victims to not remember, or at least not bring up, what a person did.
> These factors are unrelated to medical outcomes

When you look at different causes of death (diseases of the circulatory system, neoplasm, disease of respiratory system, external causes, mental and behavioural, diseases of the nervous system, and endocrine nutritional and metabolic disease) the US does worse than average on every single one of them apart from cancer.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/mortali...

> The U.S. has the highest rate of deaths amenable to health care among comparable countries

> Researchers have looked at mortality that results from medical conditions for which there are recognized health care interventions that would be expected to prevent death. While the health care system might not be expected to prevent death in all of these instances, differences in mortality for these conditions provides information about how effectively health care is being delivered. In 2006, the last year for which reasonably complete information is available, the U.S. had the highest mortality rate for deaths amenable to health care among the comparable countries.
You seem to complain, but I hear of no alternatives..

The world is moving towards more cloud computing, Mozilla can't stop the centralization of the internet. But if they can use collective bargaining to protect consumers that might do a lot of good.
Vitalstatistix's wife is Impedimenta in English. There is an Influenza though. A fragment from Wikipedia: "Orthopaedix [...] and his family move to the village after buying the deeds from Tremensdelirius [...]. His wife Angina, after a major altercation with Impedimenta, pressures him into challenging Vitalstatistix for leadership. In the film Asterix and the Vikings his daughter Influenza [...]" [1].

The names are fantastic: Asterix the star of the series, Obelix who makes obelisks, Getafix the druid, Unhygienix the fishmonger (his wife is Bacteria), Fulliautomatix the blacksmith, Geriatrix the old guy, Cacofonix the bard, are main characters. Minor characters include Romans Crismus Bonus, Magnumopus and Gluteus Maximus, secret agent Doubleosix, Egyptians Artifis (who schemes) and Edifis (an architect), Phoenician merchant Ekonomikrisis, and on and on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters
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