skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
O'Neill's colony design is flawed (and needs updating): in particular they had huge glassed-in window areas to admit sunlight (focussed via reflectors) for agriculture: he didn't account for differential heating-induced expansion/shrinkage.

On the other hand, he didn't have modern CAD back in the early 1970s. So in principle we can come up with something better.

The biggest problem is exposure to cosmic radiation -- L5 is way outside the Van Allen belts and high energy cosmic rays take roughly a metre of water to attenuate, or magnetic fields of 10-20 Tesla strength around the spacecraft. Which is a lot of mass (or a ridiculously strong magnetic field).

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays
Simplify normalization if you want a layman's terms.
Is evolution real a prerequisite for life or is it just a consequence of imperfect replication of DNA? The fact that mutations can be beneficial and accumulate in a population seems more like a happy accident, rather than a fundamental part of life. But then again, I'm no biologist.
The evidence seems to show that open source crypto is more likely to be secure. The Dual_EC_DRBG [1] thing is a good example where the NSA was desperate enough to actually try to hack an algorithm and then was immediately caught at it. That known dodgy algorithm was then used in commercial crypto products for 7 years. The open source crypto community could just avoid it.

Snowden used an open source implementation of PGP based on his knowledge of the NSA's capabilities at the time. He did not go shopping at the crypto store.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
If the world had taken this seriously a month ago we wouldn't be in this situation.

If the world took it seriously today, we wouldn't be as fucked as we're going to be a month from now.

Front-line personnel must always be first priority, because they deserve that, and because everyone else needs them.
Give it time, list is growing. You can get similar data for Japan nationwide.
Maybe save the $100 for a few months, and then try this: https://www.amazon.com/Living-SEAL-Training-Toughest-Planet-...
I dont think chloroquine has 3% morbidity. And if you are a higher risk individual, the math towards chloroquine improve. By dosing in a controlled ramp-up way, you can better mitigate many known side effects such as psychosis - identify earlier and most cases resolve when treatment is ceased.
Well, not "forcing"[1] people buying crap today makes the people creating the crap jobless and yes, that has a real cost for society. first because the jobless do not create value and second because someone needs to pay their unemployment benefits.

[1] Nobody is forcing you to do anything. You can voluntarily choose to lend your money to the bank if you agree with the interest rate. If you do not, you are free to do as you please with your money. Find someone who is willing to pay better interest rates (typically more risky)[2], buy crap, or even buy bitcoin or gold.

[2] Interesting question is, why society should guarantee you a return[3] on your investments if you do not yourself find a counterparty that is willing to pay you high enough return that you are happy with? Smells awfully lot like socialism to me.

[3] And why this guaranteed return needs to be exactly 0%? Why not 5%?
We don't. Trust is relative, not absolute.
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Some more recent research seem to at least partially contradict this statement and seem to suggest ACE inhibitors do affect ACE2.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1681....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15897343

In addition there is also this specific recent Covid19 paper which does cautiously attract attention on this matter.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-0360-5

I had a talk with 2 cardiologists and their response (this is not medical advice, talk to your cardiologist) was that it would be reasonable at least until further research is completed to for instance switch medication from ACE inhibitors to a Calcium Channel Blocker (such as Lercanidipine). At least until the pandemic gets under control and/or vaccine/treatment is available and validated.

There are very few cons to this safety measure if this can prevent complications. But that's my sole opinion and again, not medical advice. This might be worth at least an inquiry to your cardiologist. Especially if you're over 60.

(Sorry for by bad English, not a native speaker)
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> The reason for the discontent wasn't "lack of freedom", it was britain forbidding western expansion of the colonies. We wanted land, the british wanted good trade relations with the native americans who supplied them with valuable fur.

Dunno, to me that still sounds like "lack of freedom", it's just a matter of how you want to frame it.
"Evolution" by Stephen Baxter.
After you finish the book you know exactly what you are and therefore you can start to be who you are...
So science is lying about gender? Yeah right. Rejecting science to be trendy is sad.
It might be better now, but from my limited experience it seemed like Salesforce had a "native" way of customizing, a "shorthand" way for customizing and a "salesforce new" way of doing things. And the methods of customizing didnt really do well together, so for doing some automation the "native" way was recommended, but then when you wanted to update the UI to reflect that in the new way, it didnt work with the native solutions making it a whole ridiculous mess to work with over time. Very hard to keep track of what custom code was active and did what. On top of that a lot of the functionality doesnt/didnt work with their new UI so you had to switch between new and old all the time depending on what you were doing. The biggest issue is that Salesforce "can" do everything, so you often try to cram to much functionality requests into salesforce, bloating it yourself and making each new thing you add increasingly difficult to maintain. We were a small business with 15 users ,and I estimate I used close to 1000 hours customizing and setting it up, and in the end of the day we just couldnt get it like we wanted. Took ages before they supported descent email integration, sales funnels were a mess most of the time and only worked on certain objects etc. If we hired a good developer I think he would be able to set up a custom crm with our spesific demands in the same time we fiddled with salesforce. The cost to hire Salesforce Professionals to set up and customize it to your needs is astronomical, I guess for companies with 100 or less users its not worth it with salesforce unless the out of box product fits perfect (which it doesnt).
> What are the risks of epidemics that people don't understand?

How exponential growth works, for one. Two, its implications on JIT supply chains modern society operates on.

In all honesty, money flow is the most powerful force on this planet. On the face of it, this looks like a pretty trite observation, but it isn't. What it means is that if you study the feedback loops and incentive structures, look at the market as a dynamic system, you'll see where things are heading - and that picture is very bleak.

For instance, you can be damn sure that no matter how badly this epidemic goes, the next one will be handled just as badly. All the problems: lack of tests, disappearing protective equipment, fragile supply chains - are a direct and predictable consequence of market pressures, which chip away all safety buffers, piece by piece. You can't fix this without reducing or removing the influence of market pressures in many points across our society - which is synonymous with the trite saying, "we need to stop X from being driven by money".
That’s exactly how tools like WhoisGuard operate. They are registering the domain name and then subleasing (licensing) it to the entity who doesn’t want their information out there. By not sharing their client’s information upon a reasonable suspicion they have accepted contractual liability.
“Covid-19 in China”, documentary by French journalist living in Beijing [video]
Wow. That is terrifying.
Since that's the only legal way of acquiring them, yes.
Besides lack of testing, the US could turn out even worse than Italy given that many lack insurance and/or cannot afford to call in sick.
Oh, and that reminds me. Many people for some reason become aghast when they learn that my blanket/bedsheet/pillowcase don't match i.e. they're from different sets, and have very different visuall styles. Apparently, the colours must match or you won't sleep well.
> I would suggest good rigidity is the kind that keeps you from making mistakes, forces you to get to know your audience or develop your business

Another reason would be scale. The flexibility in spreadsheets usually goes hand in hand with having to deal with inconsistencies and from what we've seen that mechanism is usually a person or persons which does eventually break down at a certain volume.

e.g. a farmer getting 20 different purchase orders a week, all in their weird unique format and trying to convert all of it into a single format by hand
Icelander here, "jumper" is not in Icelandic. We use "peysa". I believe the Norwegian word is "genser".
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It does, but it shares nothing other than a domain name with old Digg. Hand curated. No upvotes, no comments.
Typically an investor of that magnitude would have pretty free access to such financial information. A failure to disclose something like this on the bank’s part would constitute fraud, and a failure by the investor to discover this given free access would just be naive and negligent (i.e. they deserve the consequences). Maybe in India the rules are different, I’m speaking from my local experience in the US.
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I find the argument quite valid. I have been always running bitcoin through tor, it is trivial actually, takes like 2 extra minutes on normal linux system. Why reinvent the wheel?
Intel TDP is not "gamed", but total bullshit: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-xeon-e5-2600-v4-b...
Arte is a french/german public TV channel.
The German version of the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODLQcQ_r1r0

Unfortunately no English translation is available, but youtube has an auto-translation feature (that isn't perfect, but help understand roughly what is being said).
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/

???
I think it is an interesting idea that needs some further exploration.

I do see some problems with it that were not addressed. The way the demos are setup are by definition an NP!=P problem. It is easy to verify you found the right command, but may be fiendishly difficult to navigate the tree to get there. Menus with sub-menus having sub-menus at least makes it visually clear which paths you have not taken and allow retracing your steps. Something akin to Ctrl-R in shells may be needed to allow you to type certain keywords to find all possible actions.

Options and parameters are not part of a decision tree as they don't specify a logical action that will follow, they just change the action. Those parameters need evaluating the entire progress in the tree to be able to suggest a next available parameter, option and action. Try it with something like ffmpeg. Modelling this to work in a CLUI will evolve into a hard problem very quickly.

The more actions, options, parameters I add as a user the more important it becomes that I can backtrack and correct mistakes. Corrections may or may not have consequences for the position in the tree I already choose. Starting over even from there might not be the right solution in terms of usability if the correction does not necessitate it.
Interesting that it crashes, this uses nothing but normal html & css for the actual rendering. I have noticed that on machines with slower graphics hardware, there are a lot of glitches (I think it has to do with low VRAM, but not entirely sure).
Now you will be able to use the app but not opt-in to promotional junk.
Anecdotal from my experience in Presales selling Enterprise software. Out of 10 enterprise segment customers:
- 8/9 would prefer SAML
- 2/3 have a compliant IdP which supports OIDC (ADFS needs to be v4.0 therefore run on Windows Server 2016+)

You'd be a fool to only focus on OIDC, at least for the next few years. As Azure gobbles up the Enterprise segment, Azure AD can be used to provide OIDC which will be nice. Though most admins who we work with are far more comfortable with SAML.

To be completely honest, the major of customers who are primarily interested in OIDC are coming from Google and/or GCP shops (which are few and far between).
The problem is, like always, other people.

The market is built on lots of small actors doing local, short-term optimizations. So let's say you're a supplier, and you come up with a disciplined, honest estimate of a buffer you need in your supply chain to cope with the next epidemic. This raises your costs, and as a buyer who cares primarily about next quarter's report sheets, I'll go with your competitor who doesn't include any safety margin, because they'll be cheaper. Will this land me into trouble in a few years? Probably, but that's out of scope of quarterly reporting, and thus not my problem.

Ultimately, the society is enslaved to the aggregate market pressures. We won't fix things until we can figure out how to build safety margins into the market and make them stick.
> it'd be nice to not have to pre decrypt programs on a real PS4 for cases like archiving and emulation

I'm no expert, but that would be the only legal way of archiving these programs, no?
Edit: earlier comment was full of shit :)

What's with companies dictating what we can do with our stuff when it's EoL?

People who buy this shit: Stop buying it and they'll stop forcing it on us!

Please... just stop.
Why isn’t there a strategic nationwide domestic reserve of supplies for emergencies? I know this is what FEMA is supposed to be doing, but they are utterly terrible at it.

Read the original enabling documents for FEMA and you'll be surprised at what they actually had the power and funding to do.
Great ideas, will see what I can do when I get back from work :)
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It's not that fragile, although it should of course be improved further. Payment terminals don't depend on constant connectivity, they can store transactions and send them to the bank later. Some of them, especially the ones used by smaller merchants, are battery-powered. If card terminals are unavailable completely, mobile payments should still work. So in my experience, the cashless society here can deal with such intermittent technical problems just fine.

A lunch restaurant near my office had a total outage once, couldn't take any payments. Things worked out just fine on an honor system then - they wrote down names and amounts on paper, and asked people to pay in the next days.

What doesn't work currently is resilience against long-lasting technical problems. If there's no power in an area for several days, there's no sensible way for the current cashless technologies to work.
The proprietary id is at least co-owned by all the major consumer banks, so it's slightly better than it being just some random small company. I'd prefer if it was a government operation of course, especially since now almost all contact with authorities goes through this system. The right thing to do would be to create a publicly owned e-ID and electronic cash, and replace the reliance on BankID and credit cards.
"Fine"

As in, doesn't get hacked or doesn't go down? We live in different worlds.
Cool to hear that it works on mobile for you, I'll try to add some controls for phones without keyboards as well.
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It looks like it benefits from AVX512 which AMD does not support.

Might be worth trying on something like an 10940x/10980xe if you can get your hands on them.
How do you add money to the card? Here in Denmark we have a similar thing, but the only way to top up your card anonymously is through cash. Or do you have prepaid throwaway cards?
Mind providing some non-biased links? Every controversial book has been somehow "debunked" all the time... :)
IDK. Thom Hartmann keeps harping on a cataclysmic crash MacGuffin to seem like a Nostradamus or sell books, but the period between crashes typically averages 7 years; the US is long overdue but I wonder if the Fed's levers are making whatever or whenever that happens worse. Or MMT-based policies make recessions magically disappear (doubtful).

Oil consumption is down to 2009 levels.

Americans, except billionaires, are poorer than they've been since the turn of the 20th c. This means less disposable income and consumption.

To the Q: I'd need to see a comprehensive table of ex-CEOs of Fortune 2000 and top 500 privately-held companies over the past 15 years or so and their stock events (privately-held if they have any data) to see if there's a pattern.
I wonder what frequency range they're in. My Sonos systems have never given me that trouble. I'm guessing the difference is the kinds of local interference in their range.
Same problem with the back button. Techcrunch seems to be deliberately attempting to disable the back button.
But once you start differentiating between those two, where exactly do you draw the line?
It's not even mentioned in the abstract.
Normally I'd sympathize but there were signs of this being inevitable for a very long time now.

My father and I are small business owners in two entirely different fields. Every now and then we talk about what we've been hearing - scuttlebutt etc. Both of us, in different cities multiple states away, heard that this was going to happen at least 7 months ago.

There has been a bunch of media coverage about the bank's financial woes as well.

I'd have moved off their infrastructure a long time ago. I know in some cases it's easier said than done, but I feel like you really had to know that this was coming, especially if you're a big corporation. There's really no excuse for being caught like this when even a small time guy like me could have told you this day would come.

Edit: For clarity - while there are ways to get infusions of funds to avoid this scenario, I was sure it would be inevitable because there is a well-founded reputation of corruption, fraud and a general culture of shady practices surrounding this bank. High profile folks at the bank were charged with some of these crimes in 2018 if I remember correctly.
I am thinking of starting a groupchat/forum for users of org-roam. Since Emacs consumers are also contributors very often, it would be a good to exchange ideas on how to make this awesome tool even better. Emacs and the org-mode ecosystem offers some already existing great features (e.g. avy-jump, magit, org-capture, org-agenda etc. ) that can make this tool far better than RoamResearch.

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If you should get into this situation again refer them to §§30 et seq. ZKG [0].

§31 specifically states that anyone with legal residence in the EU must be allowed to open a "basic" account. Occasionally banks will list this as a separate offering from their normal account, but they really should have told you about that. Sorry to hear they didn't.

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/zkg/__30.html
> There is no scenario where this is a benefit to the consumer.

From what I can see, you will have to opt in to see these alerts, so that's pretty beneficial if companies start separating junk alerts out.
yeah and humans short term memory is quite limited also automating away these small things reduces the risk of human error.
Conspiracy theory?
A false negative doesn't make a reinfection.

There are going to be a lot of still positive people that test negative with a test that has a high enough false negative rate.
Guinea fowl are ... nonchalant.

You need to keep them in your chicken (or similar) coop for several weeks, and then release them periodically during the day for several hours - they'll come back at night.

Then you can basically let them roam, but they're notoriously dumb, and worse, careless parents. Ours would abandon nests & eggs eagerly, and then go play on the road (800 metres away) despite being on the property for several years.

There was no water near where they'd loiter, and, of course, cars.

The numbers quickly dwindled.
Wonderful, your single rebuttal negates the actual market response to cryptocurrency as an international remittance tool, which so far has has been utterly negligible, because it turns out not to actually solve any of those problems where they are felt, and where they aren't it's rendered irrelevant by the lack of protections and inability to compete, either on ease of use or fees.
Yeah but I think one of the hidden issues was that older equipment was getting hard to support. They're still in that pickle.
I miss Oliver Sacks. It is enjoyable to hear episodes of Radiolab and hear him describe his current passion, or read his candid descriptions of his illness.

I have such respect for him because his unusualness was wrapped in a lack of pretension. Wouldn't we all do better by trying to emulate his focus on learning and his lack of regard for status and fame?
Presumably it's just tracking layers in between the link and the actual article?

With adblock on, my back button works just fine.
yea very true! and as someone who grew up speaking french, i want people to stop making the viola/voila mistake too. viola is an instrument. voila is what you mean most of the time.

also off-topic, but i heard the word senglish, for singaporean english, on a podcast yesterday. that made me realize how english has the potential to become a universal language with each country having their own version.

french people already use the term frenglish when they mix english words with french. we could have spanglish, japenglish, germanish, etc. they don't have to be called those though.

it would be totally awesome to be able to communicate with almost everyone in the world. just like the internet!
Chloroquine isn't a safe medication. Side-effects include irreversible macular degeneration. Check out how many other side-effects there can be:

https://www.drugs.com/sfx/chloroquine-side-effects.html