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I’m not really sure they articulated why they had to switch very clearly. They didn’t like managing Mongo. They said they couldn’t use Mongo’s hosted solution BUT they switch to hosted Postgres. Why not just overcome the limitations preventing them from switching to hosted MongoDB?
That's a really disappointing story. Fortunately these sorts of attitudes aren't common in the Go community.
Car is king in the US. Theres no hope for a robust, reliable and fast mass transit system in the US. Driverless cars and are our only hope.
My experience is the same - door deadbolts are as you describe.

Locking knobs are a bit different, in that some have a deadbolt function, but most just lock-up the knob itself (to prevent turning). Regardless, these aren't often used as the primary means of securing an exterior door - there's almost always a deadbolt.
>It's insane that people spend time and energy on keeping secrets from their relatives and friends (which everyone does) and yet can't see that a third party that actively seeks your information is more likely to cause you harm than people you know.

You're more likely to get murdered by your spouse than by a stranger. Your kid is more likely to get kidnapped by its parent than a stranger. Statistically speaking, it's the people who fear the unknown bogeyman who are irrational, not those who fear their friend, relative or neighbour.
I am only talking about the US so I agree with you about the general population.

However, the problem is serious relative to the size of one of the high risk groups that you mentioned since they account for roughly half of all the infections. Though that risk decreases through age 40 we are still talking about millions of people in either age group.

As for MSMs, they do have a higher rate of incidence, especially when it comes to Syphilis and HIV, the 2 STDs with lowest overall infection numbers. Overall, MSM would be a subcategory within the larger age group.

I would also like to know what the test rate is for the <25 group, but Im not sure the rate for the MSM group matters anymore than the white group or the obese group. I am also curious about the bisexual rate and their affect if any, being that they are the go between.

My sample size was just over 30 people(laughable), most of which believed that no symptom meant no infection. It seems as though government and NGO's alike focus on awareness, of which testing happens to be a component. Not sure how successful they are.

The other side is that even if testing is high, the process is tedious, which I can personally attest to. A person gets tested, then waits 3-5 business days to get their results. If positive, they then contact their partners. Assuming they still have their information, neither have blocked each other, and they make it over the hurdle that is stigma or shame. At which point their partner goes through the same process, and so on. All the while, all those who have yet to be notified are out in the world infecting others. The time it takes to test and treat
someone is considerably slower than the time it takes to infect others. This is all conjecture, but the facts are limited and the stats we have are high.

Due to the stigma associated with the topic its been tough getting people to talk so I honestly appreciate your response. After this I get the feeling that you'll be a critic of my idea, but hopefully a constructive one.

My idea is to improve partner notification by taking a network approach which looks at partners to the 4th degree, and alerts those that may have been exposed. My hope is this will get more people tested.

I understand the problems with my new partner receiving an alert that was set in motion by my ex, but if my new partner insists on condom use then we won't get alerts.
>We already spend much more than China and Russia combined, it’s not easy to imagine that could be reduced and we could still keep those countries in check

Unfortunately warfare doesn't work like an optimization algorithm. People are irrational, lack perfect information, and are susceptible to psychological manipulation. You cannot simply have a force two or three times larger than the enemy. Maintaining peace requires an overwhelming order of magnitude in force which ensures no one will ever be challenged. That's the entire basis of Pax Americana.

As far as the budget, all that info is openly available. But the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan have cost about $1.3 trillion, or two years of the total defense budget. The vast majority of recurring military spending is salaries, VA benefits, R&D, and maintaining/upgrading the navy and air force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
I guess it's scientific domain dependent.
I've very rarely needed something else than float/double in my C++ days or REAL*8 in my F77 ones.

sure, when you need it, you need it.
but float64 caters for a good 99% of my usual work day.

From a user POV, seamless installation of packages is a great boon.
From a grid/cloud operator POV, static binaries are great too.
I always had hard time imagining how Von Neumann can be so intelligent? There were geniuses and then there was von Neumann.
I would guess that the expense had something to do with it (https://www.microfocus.com/licensing/), and perhaps initially the lack of availability on PCs.
The ones listed by you apply mostly as library search path, while go compilers required GOPATH to point to the project being compiled.
Ignoring the question of its technical merits, a separate branch of devices started out without having COBOL. It didn’t have it because devices weren’t powerful enough to run a compiler, and because people buying those “toys” (more engineers than accountants) weren’t interested in running COBOL programs.

When microcomputers started being powerful enough, there was little pressure to port COBOL code because existing COBOL source code (mostly) was closed and mostly ran batch or networked programs (online transaction processing is the ‘AWS lambda’ of the 1960s) that nobody was interested in.

Also, (wild idea, but may have some truth in it) VisiCalc may have allowed accountants to implement what they wanted from those COBOL programs.

Finally, one could argue people didn’t stop creating COBOL projects. It’s just that new programmers, growing up using microcomputers, never started creating them, and those ‘new’ programmers soon hugely outnumbered ‘old’ programmers.
While we continued to fight any and all terrorists in Afghanistan, the Chinese were moving in with mining and infrastructure proposals including new schools et al. (I don't know how real and undistorted the "schools" part has proven to be.) I recall reading about this already, some years ago.

To the extent that reporting was and is accurate, not only were we spending our "blood and treasure" in this war, we were laying the groundwork for Chinese economic and political expansion.

Building part of the foundation for the Great Belt, as it were, and as we learn more more fully, now.
I have to violently agree with this (consistent builds).

All the infrastructure with index, notary, mirror, etc. is nice, but at the end of the day you have to fetch some external code, verify it, lock it down in some vendor directory, and check it into your own backed up repo. Everything else is fluff.

If you're not doing this you're dancing with the devil and one day when you need to tweak some module or fix some bug, and the remote source is long gone, you will rue the day you depended on anything except your own source storage. And it will be 3 AM on Saturday, in some dismal server room, with no outside Internet connection, your customers screaming at you, and your phone battery dying, because Murphy's law.

For the purposes of software builds just pretend the rest of the Internet does not exist. Vendor everything, all the time, everywhere, and trust nothing.
Huawei Facing Emotions App Helps Visually Impaired ‘Hear’ Expressions
The way I understood the parent is that the Debian model didn't actually solve the problem it was suggested as a solution for. It merely offloaded the problem to someone else. In other words, it has a dependency and therefore is not a complete solution. That's how I understood it.
There are a range of choices and lifestyles available to everyone. Habits and addictions, and choices play a role in that.

Many people die from issues related to their habits and addictions. But I do not think it makes sense demand a product or medical intervention as a solution to all of them.

Many harmful habits or addictions are best tackled with planning, decision making, and human effort. I think a good litmus test for whether something can reasonably require medical intervention is the danger to your health from quitting.

It makes sense to intervene for someone going through alcohol withdrawal, because they can be injured from it. It does not make sense for e-cigs, because if someone actually desires to stop, there isn't anything threatening them except their habit.

What would the outcome be, if there was a product to reduce the effort of quitting nicotine? It would simply improve nicotine itself, by removing the biggest reason to avoid it. We'd end up with people habitually taking two drugs, nicotine and the 'quitting drug'.
I am an idiot who doesn't know anything about astronomy, and I always assumed that if you were looking for something like planet 9 you would attempt to deduce its position from the gravitational effects it might have on nearby known entities.

What am I missing in this context?
So the mirror will serve both the package and signed hashes, what if the package has been indexed in the central index but not yet signed by the notary?
Ah I see, similar to "thoughts and prayers"?
it all depends on one's perspective. the US has done awful things to its citizens, they just aren't as amplified by our propaganda mills as the wrong doings of our political enemies.
I don't know about 'authoritative', but ads do seem to hurt. The existing experimental and quasi-experimental literature shows very bad effects on user behavior:

1. "Measuring Consumer Sensitivity to Audio Advertising: A Field Experiment on Pandora Internet Radio", Huang et al 2018: https://davidreiley.com/papers/PandoraListenerDemandCurve.pd... [experimental]

2."The Effect of Ad Blocking on [Firefox] User Engagement with the Web", Miroglio et al 2018: https://research.mozilla.org/files/2018/04/The-Effect-of-Ad-... [quasi]

3. and my own A/B test: https://www.gwern.net/Ads [experimental]
Feel like it should be next to the pasta machine :-)
this is being worked on:

- https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/cmd/golsp/main.g...
It's already started...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal
> I'm pretty sure big tobacco doesn't care if kids are smoking actual cigarettes or e-cigs, only that they are smoking.

I disagree.

Tobacco is an industry with high regulatory barriers to entry and decades of very effective marketing behind it. "Big Tobacco" makes money at the wholesale and retail levels pretty much unopposed.

Vaping is effectively unregulated, and there really aren't any truly big players in e-liquid market. Everyone who vapes seems to have their favorites, but even a small vape shop will have a dozen or more brands on the shelves.

Vaping isn't going to kill tobacco use, because as you said, the nicotine ultimately comes from tobacco - but its rise is cutting significantly into the revenue of "Big Tobacco".
What I think was a mistake in the past was using 2 or 4 spaces (or tabs) for semantic indentation. I think it should be 1 space, like Comma-Separated Trees has above, and have the editor indicate the indentation level. In my experience this eliminates a common source of tool-caused indentation bugs.
Usually it's because big projects are a logistical nightmare to migrate. You can't do it in one go. Not only do you have to transition every library plus the applications and tools and tests, you also have to keep it functional, testable and deployable on all the existing python 2 platforms as well.

I'm not saying this is a good way of doing things, simply that it's the practical reality for many codebases. And with tools like python-modernise, it's also eminently achievable. I've managed to do this with several Python codebases, so that they work with either 2 or 3, and in the future we can drop 2 and fully migrate to 3-only features. This allows a smooth, seamless transition with no breakage.

It would definitely be easier if a clean break could be made, and Python 2 support is dropped on the floor, but for many projects this is simply unacceptable.
And while the diy community market share is usually pretty small when it comes to things like the Google hub, I would bet that a pretty large chunk of harmony hub sales are diy people that are/were interested in the local API.

I think harmony is shooting itself in the foot here.
That's insane. I feel like at a small scale you get a product out the door and refine it until you start growing. It's really not hard to use ansible to deploy your stuff onto EC2 and add more nodes as you grow.

But, K8s is the new hotness and people are going to use it.
Having travelled in China and in the US, I can tell you that I much prefer taking the train in China.
> Unless there's officially supported API/CLI access & the end user can control (should they opt to) the cadence of updates - you don't own the hardware.

I would agree with a modified version of this statement. To own hardware, I need the ability to control software update cadence and be able to use the device without connecting to an external server I don't control.

If an API or CLI interfaces with an external server in order to function, and that server goes down, I just lost access to my device. By contrast, a GUI app that operates entirely on my local network is never going to stop working.
You still see M-N models in many software systems but they are used almost exclusively to keep one flavor of work from hogging resources.

Everyone else gets one share of the processor and the executor/task/job pool splits M shares among N tasks or queues up all but the first M, or combines elements of both strategies.
It's the monospaced font, with grey letters on black background that makes it hard to read.
The "I'm not important enough" comment got me thinking about something Chris Rock said on a podcast (w/ Marc Maron) when he was asked if he faced racism when he was starting out as a comic.

He replied that when he was starting out, he was small fry, so he didn't face anything beyond what he would as an average, non-comedian African American. In the comedy circuit, he was mostly ignored, but not explicitly discriminated against.

Once he reached a certain popularity level, and he was in the running for spots on talk shows, SNL, TV episodes, he started to notice it. The stakes are a lot higher, and there are lots of people coveting those TV appearances. So suddenly, people who would otherwise never even notice him, were acting in ways to specifically exclude him from the running in areas that were traditionally reserved for white comedians.

Just because you aren't important enough to be spied on today doesn't mean that you won't appear on someone's threat radar later.
This is just depressing. Here on HN and elsewhere, I often see people wondering why Amazon isn’t cracking down on obviously fake reviews, and it seems like at least part of the problem is a lot of those fake reviews are false flags to get a competitor shut down. So Amazon can’t just nuke them from orbit. I understand the motivation... but I’m still stuck unable to find any useful reviews.

Are we ever going to have a review system on the internet that isn’t gamed to the point of uselessness? I’m beginning to seriously doubt it.
Well, Daring Fireball hardly writes 1-2 posts a month (and usually small), and yet..
Having a political party that wasn’t intent on destroying the government itself would be a start.

A president that isn’t a man child too.
Or, maybe, making a product which has to deal with legacy code for billions of users is actually difficult?

Like, we know Facebook is evil, but they can’t be that evil, right?
It seems like everyone forgets this when these kind of stories appear. Soft authoritarianism looks impressive in these kind of results, but its means are often ugly if not anathema to Western values.

Hitler built the autobahn, a road system that is still enviable to this day—doesn't mean we want the system of governance that guided this project into being.

This isn't a necessary dichotomy either, you can invest in infrastructure without being authoritarian. But I think we celebrate China forgetting how some of these projects are greased through the system and carried out.
It is a reversed argumentum ad populum and just as wrong.
Check out The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford, specifically the second volume The Pentagon of Power, which gets into the idea of the modern "megamachine"
>If you run your blog like a business

That is a big "if" though. A lot of blogs don't try to be businesses. Personally, I use my personal blog to write about things I'm interested in writing about whether it's hobby-related stuff or technology. About a year ago I was thinking about starting a separate travel and food blog I was going to be more serious about and quickly realized I really couldn't be bothered.

If you're going to run a blog as a business, you also probably need to have a clear area of focus and I'm just not interested in doing that. A lot of my tech stuff also ends up running in other places these days where it gets better readership anyway.
Author here. Diplomacy isn't my strong suit, and I don't care if you think me rude.

I'm not saying consumers shouldn't have choice. That isn't at all what I'm saying. What I am saying is: Chrome didn't arrive at its market share by some corporate scheme to enforce usage by vertical tying. Chrome arrived at that market share by making a great piece of software that most consumers like and are happy with.

And I take particular offense to a browser that is bundled with an operating system by default--as opposed to one a user has to go out of their way to download--as being some panacea to Google. Edge and Safari likely have meaningful market share for no reason beyond: they ship with Windows and macOS respectively.

Chrome certainly ships as the default on Chromebooks and Android, but you'd be remiss to ignore that Chrome is the most used browser on Windows, and second most common on macOS. Those are consumers making a choice. Yet so many people in programming and tech circles don't stop to ask themselves why consumers are opting for Chrome.

So maybe the final line in my post seems harsh, but here's the reality: Edge is only a thing because it ships with Windows. Beyond that I see no technical reason to favor it over Chrome or even Firefox. On Windows, consumers have already spoken: they like Chrome. Lastly, Edge is a pretty questionable argument in favor of "consumer choice", given it represents a choice no consumer actually made beyond "default browser in Windows."
I'd guess there is very few nearby known entities and those that are in the area are too far to be precise enough.
Exactly! A dirty cheap service, but I guess that the low price was what made them close...
As an update to the first post, now the website works again.
Even then, I'm pretty sure the integrations are relatively limited... I mean, most of my friends don't even listen to the same music I do these days. Sure in H.S. it's more common, even through college etc... but tastes change.
> Why are there conflicting reports on the stats from the CDC?

There aren't.

> The CDC's website[1] says there's been a 0.6% increase in vaping in middle school and 1.5% increase in high school

No, it doesn't. The 0.6% and 1.5% numbers appear, but as the base incidence in 2011 from which an increase occurred, not the percent increase. Quoting the relevant passage of your own source (emphasis added):

“Nearly 5 of every 100 middle school students (4.9%) reported in 2018 that they used electronic cigarettes in the past 30 days—an increase from 0.6% in 2011.”

“Nearly 21 of every 100 high school students (20.8%) reported in 2018 that they used electronic cigarettes in the past 30 days—an increase from 1.5% in 2011.”

There is a difference between an “an increase FROM x% IN 2011” and “an increase OF x SINCE 2011”; you seem to have confused the former for the latter.

The middle school increase reported is 717%; the high school increase reported is 1287%. There is nothing obviously inconsistent with aggregate 900% increase 2011-2015 with a slight aggregate decline thereafter.
Tech support issues on HN are like the tech equivalent of putting up medical bills in a newspaper.

The situation is so unfair and one is so powerless, that the best way to resolve it is to get dozens of other people involved.

This is probably tiring to oneself and all the other people who have to work up into outrage. There really ought to be a more systematic way to work resolve these things.
Nicotine is little different from caffeine. Either you ban both, none, or you decide your policy is arbitrary moral posturing supported by no evidence.

Ultimately, there is little in the way of physical dependency; nicotine is as addicting as sugar and fat loaded burgers and fries, and the health risk to the population of those blow any risk from nicotine out of the water. In fact, the evidence probably shows we could promote the use of vaping instead of overeating on junk-food, and should ban minors from entering fast food places.
E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco, estimates landmark review
They do explode quite violently still. I’ve blown up tens of new ones.

Try an average Chinese or even rubicon 10uF 63v ish cap which is in just about every bit of crap from SMPS to cheap toys. They go with quite a Big Bang.
> This shields them from individual liability

That's... ambiguous. Agents aren't liable for contractual violations, but agents are typically liable for torts. Liability depends on exactly what the employee did.

AFAIU, theoretically an employee committing a tort could be liable personally as well as the employer; and if service is disrupted the employer could be contractually liable.
That scale would likely not be necessary in the U.S. Shenzen has a 50% larger population than New York and is like the 7-10th largest city in China.
But I think that's the issue with ANY big software that you build.
This specific is not a job for unittest but for integration test.
>I don't know. While no doubt some individual conversations have played out this way (law of averages and all that), I think this is a bad way to characterize the overall conversation.

Most everything I've seen from the Go camp, including the new re-discovery of various wheels with the Go 2.0 proposals, felt like the parent describes to me.

Never got the same from Rust, otoh.
I didn’t know that existed, but no it’s not good enough. Try referring to the complex value in a cell in another cell. You get a value error.

I.e say A1 = complex(1,1)
Then
A2 = A1*2 -> error.

Things like imsum() are not enough and awkward. (We have calculators for simple complex math.)

Experimentalists use excel as a visual vector computer language. I’ve used it like that as well, and honestly, for many problems in science, the spreadsheet’s paradigm of interacting with the user is better.

So what you end up with is hacked complex support by using two columns to represent real() and imag(). Then your’s truly has to parse it to use in my models.

You can do cute things in excel though. My advisor had me program the electric field resulting from a (large) distribution of dipoles.

He wanted it done - he insisted it be done - in excel. Don’t ask.

I work in a govt lab, and if you’re dealing with exp. you’re dealing with excel.

What I wished excel had, therefore, was the ability for the cell itself to be a complex number (or, better, a list of lists [0]).

[0] what is it they say and complex systems and LISP? :P