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I think thats the point of the article, UVP or unique sales proposition is how a company can market their identical product better than their competition.

The article suggests that by simply treating bees better, or infact less bad would result in a marketable difference translating to better honey sales.

The reality is a successful honey company would employ several UVPs to promote their product and protect their market share.

Perfume companies have done this for years, same with beverage companies.

Probably the closest analogy would be ethical investment brokers and mutual fund groups who claim that they only put your money into "good" companies. Sure your returns might not be as high but atleast you can sleep well at night knowing your not supporting "evil" companies.

One last point, honey is a very unique farm product, other than the initial startup cost and minimal labour there are no other inputs required. Almost every other livestock requires feed, medicine, intensive management etc...

Bees are very independent, require very little management and produce an easy to market long lasting cash crop.

(Unlike free range chickens, although chickens and bees live well together)
Ah, that thread again. Why not linking the official statement? Which by the way confirms a lot of the thread but in a way less dramatic manner.
I think it's pretty clear what suspension means in this context. I can't imagine anyone is thinking that the government is making the payment for them in this time or something like that.
I’m not sure that’s unfair, because they ostensibly all learned it in elementary school.

If they willfully forget/ignore something as basic at that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's the closest to global we've had that involves actual people and agencies, not just computers. Dismissing it only gets you "send us a picture of your gas bill to prove your identity"-level hindrance and mess.
Neither; the idea has been around for many years now (source: worked professionally on exactly these calculations this library does, in the same space). It's just basic probability theory and Monte Carlo simulations; nothing anywhere near as complex as the quants/insurance folks do.

IME, the biggest problem in this space is: on the one side, you have all kinds of metrics related to hardware, software and operations in your company; on the other side, you have FAIR and related ideas that let you model scenarios in a sane way, and let you plug in those statistical methods. But, there's no good idea how to connect these two sides. There is a vast gulf between what you can reliably and accurately measure, and what you actually want to know. It's hard to cross it while maintaining any kind of accuracy or statistical validity. I've been doing work on this "middle layer", but never got the chance to test it out in the open, as the company I worked for suddenly imploded.

(If anyone is working in this space and is accepting remote workers, I'm available for a chat.)
Fans were memorizing prices and it got out of hand so they randomize it now.
We'll never know. If it works then Covid-19 will be a footnote in history, a temporary problem that was quickly solved. We won't know if it would have become an extinction-threatening event or if it would have fizzled out on it's own, or anything in between. If it doesn't work then YC's input wasn't important and didn't help.
The Dr.Manhattan Project?
Non-reviewed being the key here.
It seems thorium isn't quite up to the hype - https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html
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Proof one doctor build his own PTE suit. No proof they aren't available per se.
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> I partly think the problem is political. If you quarantine and the virus is controlled, then it looks like you panicked over nothing, because you took this huge reaction and nothing much happened.

While I don't agree with the US's lackluster response, bear in mind there's other repercussions besides "just political". The quarantines and shutdowns will almost certainly destroy a lot of people's livelihoods. From people that aren't getting paid so can't pay their bills, to small business owners that will lose their businesses because they can't pay their bills. The effects of even a 1 week shut down can expect to be massive, and impact exactly the people who are already most struggling financially.
I don't know of any patents on the MPEG-4 Part 12 format. They might exist but I don't know of them. If you implement AVIF you'd have to pay whatever licenses might exist over the format. If there's no licenses over the format, you pay nothing. If there are licenses but you're already distributing MPEG-4 video content, JPEG2000, or HEIF your licenses you'd pay for those would cover your use of AVIF in the MP4 container.

So to my knowledge the ISO MP4 container doesn't require license fees so there's no real downside for using it as the container for AVIF.
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The administration has put the vice president in charge. What is said publicly does not match actions - as is typical for this administration (or any other administration though this is more blatant about it)
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I hope that this Corona virus epidemic is going to be the thing that finally pushes broadband expansion to the countryside in Germany...
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> now found themselves with significant negative value on their homes simply through compound interest.

Sounds just like taking out a second mortgage - you increase your principle and get money (or avoid paying money) in the short-term.

That's a perfectly normal thing to want; I wish I could do it right now.
reposted a few seconds later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534748
It's been like that in most supermarkets I went in the last 5 years.
I don't really see the point of amazon's version. And from what I read it doesn't even work yet. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/amazo...

I'd be really impressed if any large supermarket chain (outside of the US) would be ok to be so tightly coupled to amazon for virtually no benefits compared to self checkout. It's like a lot of what SV is pumping out, half assed solution to non existing problems.
The "it's only a flu" sentiment never died and nor has "it only kills elders", albeit more people are taking it seriously because hospitals may soon begin to select who has access to ICU. It feels like "I have nothing to hide" you know, or "if you have something to hide then you are a criminal"; some things are never taken seriously.
There may be serious doubts about the feasibility, but the customer (e.g., USN) may want to go ahead anyway. It's only money, and what's that compared to a potential strategic/tactical edge?

Nothing is stopping you. But there will (hopefully) be a due diligence phase in which the bidders are evaluated beforehand. It's why there are such a thing as a approved / qualified bidder list:

* https://www.findrfp.com/Government-Contracting/Government-Bi...
FPGAs. It’s just incompatible with the Mac world due to mostly proprietary tool hand and I don’t have any Windows/Linux machines dedicated for the task. Then there’s very little learning material to figure out Verilog/VHDL or whatever vendor dialect of it is.
Are you limited to vague rhetorical questions?
Please, stop throwing around totally fake numbers like that.
Also, with Katrina, houses were damaged and many lost a lot of value. Here, the houses are fine.
I'd tend to Jupiter's outer big moon, Callisto, as a good place to live. The surface is a vacuum, sure, but it's got surface ice which probably has liquid water underneath making it (and Ganymede and Europa for the same reason, and Venus 50 km up, and Earth) one of the few places in the solar system you could theoretically go outside with just a breather and no space suit. Plus it's got protection from charged particles via Jupiter's magnetic field without suffering from Jupiter's own radiation. And you've got both volatiles and minerals accessible on the surface which strikes me as really nice.
Yeah, that's TornadoVM's big thing. You just write normal code and develop it locally as you would when running on the CPU (most friendly dev environment). And then it just figures out what HW is available and uses it.

This fits really nicely with scaling up on the cloud. If you have a parallel workload that you need to auto-scale very quickly, you could migrate from small CPU to big CPU, to AVX512, to GPUs to FPGAs, all automatically. Maybe it won't produce code that can beat hand-tuned Verilog but it'll do it a lot faster and cheaper.

Re: no objects. That doesn't actually mean no objects. Recall this is based on Graal. Graal is really, really good at scalar replacing objects automatically, i.e. converting allocations into local variables, even when they're being e.g. allocated in a method and then returned. This is how Truffle gets such good performance: it just recursively inlines everything into one giant method and then wires up all the allocation sites to use sites. It turns out you can really use a lot of objects this way, yet at runtime they all disappear.

Given it's based on the same compiler infrastructure I'd expect that to also be true of TornadoVM; perhaps a TornadoVM developer can chime in. Probably you can do method calls and working with wrapper types without hitting the limitation, or at least, it can be added without too much effort (I guess the hard part is flattening the types into arrays as value types, which may require a more sophisticated optimisation pass).
Counterpoint - many people aren't. Both my personal and work Macs are on Catalina. My parents' machines are. When people ask me if they should upgrade, I suggest they do. None of those folks are the target market for an app like this, but it's still anecdata to go with yours.
>>"I'm deeply fascinated with the food supply/chain in longterm Space Travel and colonization"

You could be interested in these guys[1]. They are collaborating with ESA in that subject. The Youtube interview[2] is really interesting.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iv0857U3UE
Is there a Chief Novlang Officer to come up with those titles?
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What about self checkout or just adding more lanes ?

This really doens't sound like a problem that needs amazon and "technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning"
Should working while you commute count as paid time?
loved all his books. he literally captures the problem with this approach in a single "book title" (3 words total) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness
> This is kind of a silly "solution" as some languages don't even have types, others have "soft" types, and others support arbitrary typecasting.

Well, more fool those languages. It's a good solution, and if your language can't offer an equivalent, take it up with your language's maintainers.

> This is probably intractable. Author doesn't even touch cases where you have objects that contain other objects. Are these references or values?

Let's not declare it intractable before we've actually tried. The language would need to draw a clear distinction between (possibly compound) values and objects-with-identity - like the distinction between struct and class in C#, or between case class and class in Scala - and ripple that distinction all the way up; values should only be allowed to contain other values, should be immutable, and should be able to be treated in a generic way (i.e. a record system). Objects-with-identity should be rarer and heavily encapsulated, almost like Erlang actors; the simplest example is a reference cell (i.e. a mutable thing holding a value of a particular type that can be get and set). Doesn't sound like such a bad language design.
I wonder what percentage of people will still have a job there?
"Big companies like WordPress are an excellent example of how effective running a remote company can be."

Incorrect.

Big companies like Automattic are an excellent example of how effective running a remote company can be.

Correct.
Sugar. It's so addictive that we're trying to figure out a way to engineer healthier versions.

There's truth behind the phrase "sweet tooth". I indulged in a lot of cookies, cakes and sweet and savory foods. My peak weight was 103kg/230lbs and my height is 178cm or 5'10". I decided to make a big shift in my eating habits few years back and cut out any foods with added sugar. It was not easy in the sense that sugar really is addictive. I found myself buying a lot of fruit to curtail the cravings. Felt like rehab. It took me almost two years to fully discipline myself and lose weight.

Though every now and then I still splurge because I feel like I must in order to keep the cravings at bay. My all time favorite is a baskin robbins peanut butter and chocolate malted. Even talking about it is making my mouth water. What a delicious dilemma sugar presents us humans.
I have a very different experience. I see lots of hand sanitizer everywhere, people are washing their hands constantly, my employer has relaxed rules for working from home (i.e. do it as much as you feel is feasible and reasonable), some schools are closed, people generally avoid crowded trains and buses.

This is in NRW, however, where we have by far the most confirmed cases in Germany. Might be different in other places.
This, not this toilett pper issue, is why panic is bad. Toilett paper hording just is a great early sign from from the more serious stuff happening as well.
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This has long been known as Gresham's Law trumping Postel's Principle. For example:

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/qmail-myths-dispelled.html#MythAboutBar...
if they ban their apps, would the certificate still be installed in your phone if you installed it previously?
Great to see people rallying around possible solutions and spreading the info.

Personal anecdote, I was looking up whether to stop occasional cannabis usage as a precaution for a while because it has been labelled an immunosuppressant and an immunomodulator. I don't understand enough of the science to decide, so I'm stopping, but what I saw in those papers suggested that it is good at preventing autoimmune diseases from getting out of hand. Any expert knowledge/opinion very welcome, as many people have access to this drug already.
I haven't used any password manager other than 1Password in anger, and no password manager in a corporate context at all =[

I definetely wouldn't mind if my employer choose 1Password Business as I would be able to link my binusnees account to my family account and not pay for the latter.
It is possible this might help changing behaviour for those who currently don't use a password manager for personal use. Or it might not help at all, who knows...

Just something you could take into consideration if this is important to you.

(Last time I checked 1Password offers this kind of deal and Dashlane, Lastpass either don't offer it or don't promote it. I won't guarantee this is the current state of things...)
Me and my cofounder have only two sync meetings per week. For the rest we dogfood our own async video product [1] as we are 9 hours away in time zones. He’s in SF and I’m in Germany at the moment.

We believe in that most of things can be communicated asynchronously. For those things that strictly need to be address synchronously we keep those too slots in the week.

[1] https://standups.io
Yep, that's it. Thank you!
3) The more of these I read the worse the vapourware to actual shipped devices gets, and the less likely I believe any of them are to ship.

Wind is our best bet against climate change in the medium term. Turbines built today will just be starting to be obsolete by the time these new nuclear ideas has scaled up.

Oh, and we need to take advantage of the spectacular fall in oil price to put in place a moratorium on new drilling, fracking and shale extraction.
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I suppose any attempt at terraforming has to create oceans if we want an Earth-like habitat (theoretically this could be achieved by re-directing enough comets at Venus or Mars provided we can utilise that kind of energy in the future). Could perhaps a form of sulphur-fixing bacteria be developed to colonise these oceans and remove it from the atmosphere as sediment?

As for the magnetic field, if the lack of convection in the core is a problem (perhaps due to the core completely solidifying) couldn't we just dump enough heat energy into it to restart the dynamo action? In the future it's not completely unrealistic to think antimatter production and storage will improve, that's certainly a way of releasing absurd amounts of energy.
>By the way, if you are a programmer and you implement those sleazy dialogs, think about your life choices.

I'm sure this stern talking to really made them evaluate their life choices. We need more people on HN to take a stand like this, downvotes be damned. We all have to be the change we want to see.
So, the ISS orbit crosses the South American Magnetic Anomaly sometimes which does give them a bit of inner Van Allen belt radiation sometimes. But they're still completely protected from direct emissions of charged particles from Sun. They would get much, much more radiation if they were orbiting out by the Moon even before you start worrying about solar storms.
Did this system for surface-to-air recovery more or less get its lunch eaten by helicopters?

Still, pretty neat.
It might be surprising to Americans but there are countries in the world with sane regulations.
> duckduckgoable

Not a thing.

Duckable might be better?
I'm imagining the Stalin from Death of Stalin sitting around complaining that Hamlet takes nearly two hours and doesn't hardly kill anybody! And then dies himself!
This is obviously about Uber and Lyft. So I want to drop the analogy and talk about the real thing.

I live in Bellevue, WA. I would gladly pay 1.5x the normal rate for Uber in this area to get my rides from a company that (a) is sustainably profitable (b) treats its drivers ethically, e.g. hiring them as real employees, and (c) otherwise has the same rider experience as Uber and Lyft, e.g. booking through an app, average ETA under 10 minutes, automatic payment. Should I expect to pay more? If so, how much more? 2x? 5x? 10x?
So I have a weird hobby of reading case studies, and today my curiosity lead me to wonder why colonoscopy doctors do not use UVC...

(UVC is a specific wavelength of light of the UV band - think UV lights in clubs - it kills bacteria and is now used in hospitals to sterilize equipment )
...to cleanse the colon of both good and bad bacteria in the intestines in order to immediately cure patients with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and Chrons, which are both caused by harmful gut bacteria that even the best probiotics unfortunately do not successfully treat.
(Which lead me down the rabbit hole...)
If you want to be as sick to your stomach as I am, here is the truth and I am happy to source over 8 case studies out of dozens on the subject which all say the same thing, UVC kills cancer cells as well as COVID-19 and also strong ionized oxygen can kill any virus on contact instantly. Those tiny tentacles of Covid 19 virus will be neutralized in a fraction of a second in contact with the ionized oxygen.
This Wikipedia link actually describes it well. I am originally from Finland but been living abroad most of my life. After few years abroad I learned that there is no use to correct people "Finland is not Scandianvia" because apart from Finland and actual Scandinavia rest of the world says Scandinavia.
Until someone brings the other kind of nuclear to the battlefield.
The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981260/
So what about the radiation then?
You are pre-selling your own work and productivity.

That value that backs up that money will be created by you.
So I take it you did read it finally? What did it do for you?
I'm not a fan of blockchains either, but to be fair, they could issue a compensating smart contract for the duration of the suspension.
While low yield, it would be interesting to look at fast-tracked whole genome data from infected patients, and see if there are any SNPs or mutations that could put you at higher risk for mortality.
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Stop projecting, ok? We are following the guidelines. No unnecessary travel, frequent hand washing, keep physical contact like hand shaking down.

We also have quite some stock of necessities at home, but that isn't any different from, say, last November or any other random months before the virus outbreak. Is it serious? Sure it is. Are we at Black Death levels? NO, and nobody says we ever will be there. I am also rather happy with the general way authorities are handling the situation. Sure, it could be improved here and there, especially at the messaging and side and by aligning policies.

Two things to note so:
- When you are not old without any preconditions, your personal risk of complications is rather low. And no, I don't care about one guy being interviewed by whom ever.
- Even during the Black Death panic didn't help
Have you seen how many times they failed to assassinate Fidel Castro? Stupid is as stupid does and the CIA are the greatest idiots of all times. Not even their foes could dream of creating a quagmire that destroyed public acceptance of the draft and created so many disabled veterans that it lead to the ADA after two world wars with antibiotics boosting survival rates of previously mortal injuries.
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Even if you take it literally as a physical phone instead of SIM, the SMS verification works equally well with 20 EUR Nokia dumbphone as with the latest iPhone.
Well, about 10% of the heat a reactor creates is from the radioactive decay of fission products, so even when a reactor is “scrammed” (shutdown, no fission occurring) you need to be able to extract megawatts of heat to keep it stable - hence you need powered pumps, access to water, condensation towers, etc.
It would be extremely naive, given what is openly admitted about Operation Mockingbird[1], and the well known dictum that "who controls the present controls the past" to think that intelligence agencies aren't intensely interested in influencing and controlling Wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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> And in 2017, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was created with nearly $650 million from Germany, Japan, Norway, Wellcome, and our foundation. Since then, others have come on board, including the UK, Canada, Ethiopia, Australia, Belgium, and the European Commission, to dramatically reduce the time it takes to develop vaccines for emerging epidemics, and ensure they are accessible, available, and affordable.

Such a shame that the US is not on that list of countries.
> they never take "infinity multiplied by some small percent" risk

At what point does the tail represent "all humanity dead"? No one needs a contract for the humanly unrecoverable.