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So for the same reasons:
- No one should fund your child birth because of your personal preferences.
- No one should fund your ER visit because of your own personal preferences.
- No one should fund your mental health care because of your own personal preferences.

Where do you stop with the personal preferences? Sexuality? Being transgender? Choosing to skydive? Ending up in poverty? Having sex? Abuse victims living with depression and anxiety? Paying through the nose for the same private insurance as you?
I am not suggesting the above are personal preference, but some people use arguments that they are, and that people should be denied healthcare treatment because of it.

Your insurance is covering a lot more than you spend on healthcare, that's how insurance works (and makes a tonne of profit doing so). A lot of people take pharmaceutical drugs to keep themselves healthy, PrEP is one of the many.

I'm fully aware of the side effects, I'm one of the few who had a severe allergic reaction to it, that was a hellish few days I do not wish to repeat; but I'm still for people who can take it being prescribed it if it helps reduce risk.

As for cost, maybe the patent system needs an overhaul, or maybe drug companies should have the same price for all customers, or perhaps healthcare should be centralized and and the current dictatorship of insurance and drug companies reduced to mere socialism instead, but that's a whole other discussion.
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What, specifically do you disagree with? Personally I go the plaintext route for email, but if I was writing HTML emails this advice all seems pretty sound to me.
> what’s the alternative here?

The alternative is to reuse the cotton bag that you already have for other purposes.

Anecdotally, I use a backpack that I acquired in grade school 20 years ago. I use the same backpack as a day bag for many other types of trips. The zippers fell off track at one point and I had it repaired. It can also carry 20lbs or 40L of food (and on the shoulders instead of the hand) pretty easily.

But also, bags made from hemp instead of cotton. Especially if the leaves are used for other purposes and you're using the stalks.
If you are in/around NYC I highly recommend Public Records for a top-notch audio experience and relaxed atmosphere: https://thevinylfactory.com/news/new-audiophile-bar-opening-...
Of course the Japanese had this concept figured out.

I do this thing with a small group of friends, where we drive like 3-4 grands worth of speakers and room correction DSP (Genelec and DSpeaker) to a summer cottage every 6-8 weeks or so. The place, a big log cabin, happens to have wonderful acoustics.

And we just sit back, mostly STFU and listen to a selection of music for an entire evening, DJ:ed by me (I accept requests), and we eat good food. There's no background music, when we cook, eat or clean, because we want to rest our ears for the main sessions.

The next day, we drive back, I check everything we listened to from Last.fm, and I create a Spotify playlist of the event, which we all save.

Most people look at me like I’m insane when I describe this activity.
For stage rigging, the "method of choice"? Never seen it.

It "lasts longer than cable ties"? Not sure if they mean zip ties, velcro, tie line, etc, but I've never seen any of these fail due to age.

It "does not create obstructions along the length of the cable"? We use e-tape.

Rigging isn't generally about electrics, anyway. I wonder if that's a typo.
> You know the one of the things the worse off in society enjoy doing? - drinking a soda.

Wait, what? This exact same argument could be made for cigarettes or hard narcotics. This argument is a non-starter. Especially since advertising is targeted at this demographic to convince them that a sugar addiction makes them less miserable.
The amount of current LED consume varies (due to varying internal resistance) with its temepture assuming voltage is kept same.

Now, if your LED heats up, it's internal resistance goes down, it sucks more current and it heats up even more and this shortens its lifespan or can kill the LED instantly.

A quality driver should handle grid fluctuations, limit the current (by varying the voltage) and LED should have enough cooling (to not disturb its internal resistance much or go above its optimal operating temperature) but often due to space and cost constraints, it doesn't happen.

Some even use bad capacitors (low capacity, dries faster, low voltage rating so blows up when power surge happens) this induces flicker.

Some use crap LEDs array which does not lit evenly, test for it by lowering the voltage if you see LEDs with uneven brightness across the array or grid, you've bad LEDs.

Low quality components, insufficient design, poor QA, inability handle power surge (both grid and local ones) are primary reason for LED flickers and short lifespan

Why they don't fix it? To minimize cost, which helps bottom line and boosts profit. Customer's experience with LED will vary (depending on if they've surge protectors or not or grid fluctuations, these are local to you and others might have different situation), so you won't instantly know from reviews or feedback online - which LED is good for you unless ofc you reverse engineer and figure out how it works even then you might not be able to figure out quality of components and degradation with time.

Marketing/Sales can fix (hide?) lots of bad reviews and profits can be boosted regardless of underlying quality. Many customers won't pay more because they can't differentiate between quality.

And everyone seem to agree that LED as a technology might not last forever, so why bother boosting lifetime/quality of current bulbs when they'll be replaced and an opportunity to make more money will come along?

And when a new better bulb technology will come along, they all will blame their cost cutting induced quality / life issue on LED technology and then they'll move on doing same with the new technology.
Nice hacker news story! Love me some global warming, religion, how to fix the world, white bad brown good, etc! Bravo!
+1 for example.com here. IMO "SSL" is not great to use in the domain name as non-tech folk have no idea what it is and might struggle to remember it. "NeverHTTPS" might be better, but even then how many people know their connection isn't working because of HTTPS? I'd wager not many.

I'm kind of amazed no one has implemented a better system for this yet. Public WiFi is very common, and relying on intercepting HTTP requests to show users a login screen seems very hacky to me.

What if a device pinged the gateway IP on a certain port whenever it connected, and received a small payload with details on connectivity authorisation URL, etc. etc.? For backwards compatibility if that ping fails it could just assume the network is open. It would take years for all the public routers out there to be updated, but you kind of need to start somewhere.
The government is not allowed to use more than 4% (return on investment), in practice today this is close to 2% because the return on the fund is lower these days.
I think you misread the comment you're responding to, and are therefore agreeing.
Yeah, Rust is the best ML for the things I care about, but after 5 years of on-and-off use, I still haven't adapted to the borrow-checker and a GC is just fine for the applications I write. And learning curve is important too--I need to be able to onboard new developers quickly. Go simply offers the better tradeoffs today for my apps. If someone built a "Rust-lite"--Rust with Go's runtime or Go with Rust's type system (less its lifetimes and borrowing semantics--insofar as those are considered a part of its type system), that would be my primary app dev language. But it's looking like Go is going to get there first with its proposal for generics and hope for sum types.
If it was just because of the genre, their brother would notice that anecdote everywhere and not just Japan. The drummer in my current band plays with several groups (very common for a skilled drummer in NYC), and he just got back from a 2 week tour in Japan and had the exact same things to say. Crowds were way more respectful and focused on the music.

I agree though that in general niche music is more respectful than more mainstream music, at least in the USA. Harsh noise and stoner sludge/doom shows have had the most polite people in the mosh pits in my experience.
To be fair, there are multiple forms of CAN now in usage too. With CAN FD being the latest IIRC. So some of this will depend on which standard is being followed, although at their core they function nearly the same.

The overall nature of CAN is if you have access to it you can listen, so it isn't designed to prevent participation itself. There isn't a way of excluding a node without custom hardware/software as every node sees all data in a standard CAN bus. Yes, you can do a DoS attack on the bus, tampering with the packets is tougher but not impossible. There are essentially CAN firewalls that can be setup which can limit the damage and there are some companies that make software/hardware that act like a sink to control/stop a bad node or unauthorized access.

The most common thing is during CAN connection to require registration and some form of a key infrastructure. Without that your node is essentially ignored, although the network is still subject to your node essentially DoS the network by holding the lines low/high. This is how I have handled basic security and node control prior. But you can do things like a firewall with network segmentation, which works really well too.

Encrypting CAN can be done, but by design CAN is not a super high throughput bus (new FD is fairly fast) and is designed for multiplex messaging, so it can be quite costly to encrypt data going across it. But there are solutions for encrypting CAN and it is done.
Ask HN: Is it legal to bring encrypted devices to Russia?
I am travelling to Russia on business soon (not for the first time) and I intend to take my laptop which is protected by BitLocker. A colleague has pointed out that it's illegal under Russian law to 'import encryption technology' and he thinks that applies to me. Our risk department has now got involved and I can't really find any definitive evidence to support either side of the argument.

Does anyone know what the position is?

Thanks
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Just anti-tax propaganda
You hit the nail on the head. Half-Norwegian here. Locals all speak of the oil as a gift to Norway from the seas/God/whatever.

An economic analysis in comparison to Finland and Sweden would be interesting.
Oh right I was confusing it with alloca() http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/alloca.3.html
> The community really dove into the punctuation-based syntax, preprocessors and meta languages head first and created a real Frankenstein.

More is on the way. Github issue thumbs up-driven development means it's the new C++ kitchen sink.
This sounds wonderful, not at all insane.
The owner of the website is here: https://twitter.com/colmmacc
> If you have to tell people they need something then they don't need it.

None of the ads we got say to anyone that they need it. No one thinks that they need it when they see it.

What the ads say is that we exist. When they look for entertainment, and the debate isn't about whether entertainment should or not exist, they see us in the search engine (which is ads financed). When they search for movie theater (which is not related to our business, so it's fair that Google doesn't show our business in the results), they see us.

Actually, it's not even possible trying to convince people that they need us, even if we would want to. We NEED to target people that want entertainment because that's already pretty expensive for us to do.
> I am showing personal responsibility by both myself and my husband using Prep and getting tested regularly.

Can't understand why you need PrEP unless you or your husband have unprotected sex outside marriage. That's the personal responsibility needed for both you and your husband: not having unprotected sex with other partners.

Again, can't see why the state or the other people paying their health insurances should have to pay for your preferences when it comes to use a condom. Nobody likes to use condoms... yet, responsible people, do.
Right. I've used the wrong terminology technically because the machine code is running natively. (I'm not aware of a succinct term for what WINE does, though, so I guess I'm being sloppy for convenience.)
> On average, the fund holds 1.4 percent of all of the world’s listed companies.

Why fund businesses in other countires? Shouldn't Norway try to set up some more industries at home?

Everyone claim Europe (was: EU) needs more VC funding to stop the brain drain. Well, here is a huge pool of money just waiting to be spent
What's the percentage of all US stocks fund owns?
Brown Patterns
At least in MA, jimmies are the chocolate ones, sprinkles are the multicolored ones. I've heard that that's not 100% uniform throughout New England, but can't confirm.

I did see another comment make the same statement about Philly, so I'm guessing it's also a Philly thing?

EDIT: Just saw you identified as a Philly person, so perhaps not :)
HIV has already mutated to bypass prep. There was a case in SF about 8 months ago in the local news.

Wear condoms.
We did some research a few years ago which was similar in some aspects. We have mapped roguelikes and boardgames into the hyperbolic plane based on the frequency of two games being mentioned together on Reddit. Here are our maps:

Roguelikes description: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/reddit.php

Roguelikes interactive: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/rogueviz-online.php?c=-la...

Boardgames description: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/redditboard.php

Boardgames interactive: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/rogueviz-online.php?c=-la...

Since similar games are mapped together, and popular games tend to be close to the center, our maps work great as a recommendation system too. They also look great :)
The US produces 10x the oil Norway does, and was producing significant amounts of oil as far back as the 1860s.

We've had that profit stream, we just let it get captured by private corporations (or in Alaska's case, given away to garner votes).
This is mitigated via a proof of work "hashcash" mechanism, or for signed owners the ability of the CA to revoke the cert.

BTW "high resource use" is in reference to things like tiny embedded devices. You won't be putting this in a fridge magnet or a smart light bulb. This will run fine on a $10/month VPS or a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4, though if the data set gets huge you might need to attach some storage.
Perhaps the folks running these networks lack the incentive to care about technical correctness? OTOH, one would think a better system would lead to a higher conversion rate (i.e. more people are actually able to pay you).
Really? Aside from the emphasis and cat pictures, this all seems like basic advice that's borderline mandatory if you want people to actually read and understand your emails. If you have specific rebuttals to using specific dates, including relevant links, structuring emails well, and making action items clear, I'd really like to hear them.
"On average, the fund holds 1.4 percent of all of the world’s listed companies."

This blew my mind.
Sales tax is 25% (lower on food + public transport). Income tax is close to 50% for most of people (progressive), in addition there is a 14% tax per employee that the companies have to pay. If you take out dividend there is a 25% tax that don't earn you pension.
Previous post (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369038
Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock
The point is diversification. If norway’s economy collapses, they’ll still be invested elsewhere. It’s financially unwise to keep all your eggs in one basket
Processing and transport requires energy which is unlikely to be renewable. To maximize impact I think we need to find some efficient system, perhaps algae or GMO plants or weeds, that sinks carbon straight into the earth. Perhaps very verdant places like Minnesota, residents could be encouraged to collect deciduous leaves each year and round them up for sequestration (which again requires energy). Or renewable and nuclear power plants could use all of their excess power toward some kind of machine that scrubs co2, which becomes a solid at relatively high temperature of -75C (compared to liquid o2 or n2).
So, ten years and Go will be production ready.
The jumping Jupiter scenario is usually associated with the Late Heavy Bombardment, which is half a billion years too late for the age of the Moon estimated by OP. But of course there are disagreements about when Jupiter did its thing.

There's a lot of variance in "Mars-sized", so I wouldn't count on an easily noticeable mass-balance match. Mars, Mercury, and the Moon are all very small compared to Earth. Earth is more massive than all of the other rocky planets and the Moon combined, and yes, that includes Venus.
Asana launches Workload to help prevent burnout
> Interesting linguistics but as someone who spent a few years living in Philly I think the use of "jawn" is a little overstated here.

This is like a Canadian who says he doesn't say "eh". Eh.

NB: This is meant to be light-hearted based on experience.
I usually open 192.168.0.1 which works quite good;)
Where exactly is this "scorn" coming from? I've been to Japan, but of course only as a tourist; I didn't grow up there or live there. But I did see kids, in groups, aged 10+, hanging out together and generally having fun. It looked like maybe they had just gotten out of school, as they were all wearing school clothes. They certainly weren't looking unhappy, or refraining from sudden movements or talking, in fact they were quite animated. This was in pretty open, public places however, like the big crowded outdoor markets.

What I did notice about Japan, compared to the US, was that it seemed like I could do just about anything there as long as it wasn't illegal. I might get stares of disapproval, but it seems like the society has a strong attitude of minding one's own business, and a pretty severe case of non-confrontationalism (sorry, I made that word up) whereas here in the US you can get nasty comments from random people if they don't like something about you, especially in the "friendly" South. So there seems to be a strong culture of conformity enforced by silence and expecting people to know social norms, but then you see some people acting out in various ways, like dressing really crazily, but everyone just ignores it. Of course, there's also the subways where no one talks (very unlike the US), but I can see the reason for that due to the crowding and it's actually pretty nice IMO, as people on the DC Metro get really loud at times.

Of course emigration isn't a soul-altering odyssey for you, because you're a couple with one person from each country. Getting adjusted to any country is 100x easier when you're married to someone who grew up there. Try moving to Congo or Saudi Arabia and see how easy you find that trek.

None of this has anything to do with sexism, to address your comment, I'm just talking about what I've seen and read about kids, and trying to understand your experience. From everything I see about raising kids in the US, it's pretty horrible, and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to do it, though it probably varies a lot from place to place. I grew up in the US of course, but it absolutely was not like it is now; when I grew up, kids could and routinely did roam around without adults, but that was decades ago before helicopter parenting became the norm.
Norway isn't in the EU, so that wouldn't exactly be home for them either.
It's called diversification. If there's a downturn in Europe, you want to be insulated against it, otherwise you'd then be out of funds right when you actually need them the most.

It'd be like investing all your savings in your company stock. If the company falls into tough times and you get laid off, you'd be out of money exactly when you need it real bad.
Yet another template engine, it can be used as an alternative solution of JSX
Towards a Theory of Intentions for Human-Robot Collaboration
We are loosing the leitmotif in this subthread and I would like to bring us back on track. The logical structure of this discourse is:

1. "[...]We should have nuclear going at 120% of demand and use the exess power to support electricity based carbon capture devices."

2. "Can we mine enough uranium to produce this much electricity?"

3. "Yes. Reactor technologies have advanced, we just haven't built enough. We can actually reprocess the tons of old fuel we have for trillions of MWh."

4. "[...]Can you give any link to anything that is actually implemented?[...]"

In 3., user "bifrost" makes the factual claim, that there was an existing technology that could reprocess old fuel and produce trillions (sic!) of MWh, if built in sufficient quantity.

In the remainder of the thread, me and others ask user "bifrost" to provide some source for the claim, but user "bifrost" was unfortunately not elaborating. Other users stepped in and linked to

- the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague, which is, well, not a reactor

- the fast breeder Superphoenix, which was decommissioned (and with it the technology) 22 years ago

- an article of the Heritage Foundation, which refers to French nuclear fuel reprocessing (with false claims)

- and the ITER-technology, which is completely experimental and will use real fuel for experimental purposes not before 2035, being away from commercial usability at least 20 years from now. It will also not burn old fuel.

So none of this (well appreciated) contributions matches the description of the claim in 3.

I will admit at this point, that I am not interested in a public discourse of my opinions about the pros and cons of nuclear energy, as I have made up my mind and don't feel the wish to proselytize anyone.

I simply would like to have user "bifrost" substantiate his claim. Because, if true, this could potentially change my mind about nuclear energy. And because, if false, it would confirm my suspicion about fake exertion of influence by pro-nuclear lobbyists.
As someone who played in piano bars and bar bands, this does kind of sound amazing. With either case, it really depended on the venue, but usually it was a 30/70 split of people paying attention vs just having background music unless we did something like "Piano Man" or one of those classic bar songs like "Keep Your Hands to Yourself". (this was in TN and KY, although almost never in Nashville)
Population of Norway, 2017: 5.258 million

Population of United States, 2018: 327.2 million
> If they weren't actively thinking about visiting one or actively looking for things to do and your advertising convinced them to do it

... which is exactly what our ads are doing. None of the targetting that we do is related to anything else than entertainment, or activities to do. I even had to black list plenty of keywords that triggered our ads, some for prostitution service even.

Believe me, if we weren't targetting like that, it would cost WAY TOO MUCH. I'm pretty happy right now with an average 4.95% of CTR for the past 2 weeks.
I believe http://detectportal.firefox.com is also useful for this purpose.
Because it allows them to maximise the returns?

If it was Norway first the fund would be worth nowhere near a trillion dollars...
HIV can remain undetectable for up to six months.