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I've mentioned this in a couple different HN posts regarding QM recently and I'd like to mention this again. I'd greatly appreciate it if we could do some back and forth. I think the "current crisis in physics" has much to do with the foundations of QM. If what I present below is just false, then fine, I'd appreciate an explanation of why instead of a downvote.

In short, I believe what Planck found was not an action constant, but rather it was an energy constant. Planck's constant has the wrong units. The constant should be in Joules/oscillation as opposed to Joule*sec.

Planck inadvertently "hard coded" a one second measurement into his constant.

His equation should be E=htf where h is in Joules/oscillation t in seconds and f in oscillations/second. I think there is a reason why the units for frequency aren't explicitly listed as oscillations/sec. the units of E=hf don't balance if f has the units oscillations/second.

But you don't need to believe me... please read the following paper by Juliana H.J. Mortenson (Formerly Juliana H.J. Brooks). https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e266e5e7-739c-437c-89c3-eed...

Can you find an error in her paper? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Thanks!

Upshot: Every oscillation of light has the same energy, and what we regard as a photon today is actually a one second measurement of oscillations of light at some frequency f.
>It isn't a "weird obsession" to consider that the dollar may face the same fate as dozens of other currencies.

yes it is when my alternative is cryptocurrencies traded by nerds who want to buy lambos while I don't even know if its value is up 50% or down 50% week to week and every transaction costs me dollars.

The US dollar is one of the most stable and predictable currencies that we have and it has been for decades, as are most other major currencies or baskets of assets or what have you. There is no worry for hyper-inflation and even if there was, don't hold your entire assets in dollars and you're fine
I put a little money into a vix tracking etf on feb 28, vixy. I bought things in an effort to avoid taking great risk to buy later. He who panics first, panics best - ancient Wall Street proverb.
If our health systems are not overwhelmed, sure definitely 12% is overstating it. If they are, look out!
> Also, I don't think it's legal to jail someone over unpaid debt

It frequently is, IF the debt is to the legal system.
Huh?

Coreboot supports multiple payloads[1]. You can in fact run Coreboot without UEFI - for example by using a SeaBIOS or GRUB payload.

When you are running Coreboot, it is virtually the first thing that executes on the processor, probably after some burnt-on initialization code. At that point it can do whatever. I suspect most people using Coreboot are not using it to launch Tianocore, the UEFI payload, but I guess I don’t know.

The only logical reason I can see to need UEFI would be to load drivers and/or option ROMs that need a UEFI environment - but nothing stops you from implementing drivers/initialization yourself, reverse engineering notwithstanding.

[1]: https://www.coreboot.org/Payloads
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A while ago, I used this library called ts-interface-builder to generate runtime validation functions from TS types. It worked really well, I was able to use the types from my front-end without any modifications for back-end validation.

Also, used the inferred response types from endpoint functions and passed them back to the front-end to use with front-end fetch calls. This was probably the biggest improvement in terms of productivity and improving accuracy. Imagine every time you change an endpoint's response, any fetch calls that are impacted would just show errors at compile time/in your editor.
The problem with the US right now, is that people are simply not getting tested. There are reports of people who traveled outside of US and are showing symptoms yet they are being refused the tests.

The White House has been trying to downplay the whole issue. I understand that any administration would have a hard time handling this but Trump has been doing terrible job, even going as far as naming it a hoax.

In the next 30 days we will see exponential growth of the virus in the US. We have 330 million people but only 1 million hospital beds. Many older folks will not receive treatment.

The way US healthcare is set up will make this issue even worse. In US many people avoid doctors and hospitals due to cost. Many HAVE to go to work because they don't have savings and don't have ANY time off. US is set up perfectly for the virus to spread like wild fire. Plus, many Americans are still ignoring the pandemic. This will not end well for the US.
The thing is, in some sense, the borrow checker got more complex. But because it accepts more programs, it makes programming in Rust feel less compex. This is related to the waterbed stuff I was talking about elsewhere in the thread.

There is a fine balance here, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465409
The freakish backlash about vaping strikes me as a classic moral scold's game, but I do actually agree that the form factor was likely intentionally chosen to be easily confused with USB sticks.

The product was clearly carefully designed. A lot of money and market research went in to it, and the idea that nobody noticed the connection is not plausible. Hell, someone was likely carrying design documentation around _on a USB stick_ during the design process. And then you notice that other nicotine vape products and pot vape products mostly are not that shape...

Had the ideal form been, say, easily confused with a switchblade, they would have found a way to work around that; developing a rep for getting their customers hassled/shot would be bad for business. Thinking through the real-world implications of design is what good product designers do.

At best, it is marginally plausible that they noticed the connection but were indifferent, not considering the mistaken identity possibilities. But after typing that out, I have trouble buying it.

It does not strike me as odd at all.
these people are idiots. i come here just to laugh at their existence.
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> Not sure I actually understand why K is pushed here almost daily. Is it just the esoterics?

Kind of - they have best practices that are almost the opposite of the standard software dev best practices - and they still produce high quality maintainable software.

It’s interesting to see that a lot of “truths” in software development are at the very least context dependent if not outright pseudoscience.

I don’t think you can simply “loot” their best practices - although some devs do write c code the way they would write k code.

Edit: To expand on this for example even if you want to use short identifiers, multiple statements on one line, and avoid abstraction in the Java world you will be fighting the entire ecosystem to do it.
I'm in the italian lockdown: nobody will cook my food for me (my decision)… and nobody will deliver it (theirs, and the laws'). Additionally, all bars, cafes, restaurants etc are closed.
I might be have made wrong assumptions about consumer safety regulations where you are. I'm pretty sure you can't sell anything in Germany to consumers that's toxic on contact with hands if it's something people usually touch and you don't warn about it.

The reason the fuel-type is this cheap is that it's taxed much less than the drinking kind. For technical applications they have good reason to keep if clean, safe for traces of impurities. The stuff they use for non-medical hand sanitizer and such should come from the same factory. There isn't much you can do wrong when producing industrial quantities of generic technical ethanol.

I'm sorry if I caused confusion though.
Imprisonment clearly isn't enough to coerce her into complying. There may be other methods that could coerce her into it, but they would be obvious violations of the eighth Amendment.
It's hotter inside your body on most days of the year, even if you live close to the equator.
Diolch!
My parents are in the range

And they live in Italy

Still the heat wave in 2003 killed 18 thousands people in a month and 15k in France in only half a month.

Old people are vulnerable to many things, unfortunately
also see https://forgottenphysics.com/
The US had tested 23 out of every million people as of 11th March, while South Korea had done 3692/million as of 8th March.
While I think this is pretty cool, given his use case (wanting to use a strongly typed client and server), I can't see why one wouldn't just use GraphQL with TypeScript on both the client and server. I've done this and I love it:

1. Define the GraphQL interface with GraphQL's typedef language. GraphQL then takes care of validating all the request and responses at runtime.

2. Use something like https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-code-generator to generate all your TypeScript types from your GraphQL schema. Place these types on your resolvers and then you get compile-time type checking.

3. Since GraphQL actually exposes your schema as part of the endpoint, clients can use the same tool to keep their TypeScript types in sync, and get the same typing benefits when writing the client code.
Interestingly enough, I believe that the author of that proposal first learned pattern matching in Rust.
I was responding to They assume they can get past whatever roadblocks they have, and they're always correct. I believe this specific assertion to be false, and was not saying anything generic about fearlessness as a route to 'success' (a concept whose coherence I'm in any case deeply sceptical about).
In Croatia and a few other places, there are a lot of fake Airbnb listings. You can instant book them but they are not available and the host never answers. I once was stranded in a really dark and empty area of town because of this. The host provided a fake number even...

These fake hosts are still active, I can see the green dot indicating they are online if I look into the chat logs.

Airbnb did not pay for the hotel I had to book instead. I also couldn't use the meagre reimbursement I got on top of the full refund (at least...) because it was only valid for a month and I wasn't travelling at that time.

I still like the privacy and cooking my own food, but sometimes it's really terrible.
> Interestingly, that's 20% lower than in 2000 (3.04)

Almost the exact trend in Canada. I hope this is just a quirk of the data, because we would be screwed for this in 2000, and being at least 20% more screwed means we're extra screwed.

In effect, it seems that in Canada have fewer overall hospital beds per capita than Italy has acute care beds.

We are completely unprepared, and in terms of time, not far behind Italy.
Thinking through the long term implications of this disaster is interesting because it might be a catalyst for a lot of positive change, especially in the U.S. Hopefully we can flatten the curve and prevent huge mortalities before things spiral, but I can't see how the aftermath this doesn't lead to an immediate demand for universal healthcare in the U.S.

Beyond that, a lesson in listening to and respecting scientific warnings about climate change and other existential threats we'd rather not think about. Lessons about not blindly listening to economic advisers who want numbers to go up and, hopefully, lessons about how humans can revert to human kindness and decency when faced with real issues. I think of the stories from NYC about so many people helping each other on 9/11 - we need to become real communities again to work through this together.
To be clear, we got a trial period, and this was warmly given.

(I don't want to misrepresent what happened.)
Very fun story. Glad you were able to dig that link up.
Why not Go? There will be minimal friction to doing most backend work, and the standard library has most things you'd need built in. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up!
> As an example: "Zero guaranteed financial or operational support for people who should self-quarantine. People are therefore ignoring quarantine because they need to eat. " This exactly lays out how people are behaving. That's not politics.

If you expect responses, you should spend more time making sure you understand what posters have posted, because it seems you haven't read anything I posted beyond one single post.
Of course, the lack of exercise which tends to be enabled/encouraged by using a CAR kills a lot more people than infectious diseases do.

> And of course, the time saved by being able to go from point to point rather than through mass transit hubs quickly adds up to many lifetimes

I suppose this depends on where you are, really. This may very well not be the case in a large city with segregated rail/light rail/bus. Also, of course, you'd have to find a place to leave your CAR; no small feat in a large city.
Also when 85+ year olds die for other reasons, they don't all occupy ICUs for days or even weeks as in the case of COVID-19.
Well, if a person doesn't see any possible path toward some destination, then they will probably not even try.

If I see a path toward the destination, but it will take me a million years of walking, then that's not a fault of mindset theory. It doesn't promise that I'll be able to muster the million mile walk, it just promises that if I look closely enough, I might be able to make out the path there.

I am somewhat skeptical of mindset theory but intuitively, it makes sense and tracks with how I expect a human mind to react to difficult projects.
A good friend of mine was (and still is) a civil/construction engineer. Other than some introduction courses in college, he had never done any programming before. But after losing his job in 1998, he was hired by a major European consulting company to work on the Y2K problem.

With an auditorium full of others who had barely any programming experience, he was given a crash course in Cobol for a month, and then he had to go through thousands of lines of code of bank software that ran on some mainframe and identify all cases where a date was hard-coded as 2 characters.

Extremely tedious work, but there were tons of fixes to be made.

The problem was real, and the billions that were spent on fixing things were necessary.
There's a far cry from having integrity and honesty, and being a jerk.

Using political speech is often being a huge jerk, because you have a power imbalance and someone calling you out on it has to fight against the tide.

Consider who you are speaking to, in what context, and be as authentic as you can.
What I'm hearing is if you are hostile and rude, you should not participate (not trying to put words in your mouth). I agree.
Singapore has been competent, but Taiwan's response has been more impressive.

It's very close to the hot zone, millions of people travel to and from mainland China every year, it has roughly the population of Australia living on 10% of the land Japan has, the WHO refuses any cooperation, and yet there have been under 50 cases and no local transmission.

Not only that, but as a democratic state, Taiwan's control measures have been remarkably measured.

I'd credit two factors:

1) Imposing travel limits three weeks before China even admitted there was an outbreak. After SARS, the TW government had a plan for this epidemic and a healthy skepticism for both official news and the WHO.

2) Taiwan has a relatively high trust society. People generally trust the local CDC and make a genuine effort to take preventative measures, even those primarily for the safety of others. A phone alert is generally all that's needed as a quarantine reminder for those exposed.
They're doomed, and the collapse in travel and discretionary spending could take a lot of property owners down with it. On the plus side this might clear a lot of greed out of the property market, allow prices to return to a saner median, and relieve the housing shortage that obtains in many places.
In addition to the other comment, it's also always easier to see clearly and be able to make pivoting decision when it's not your baby.

Being fearless in solving someone else's problem has only benefits - feeling good for succeeding, even partially.
Your 10% premise is wrong because you're conflating intensive care capacity and regular hospital beds. You can't just put Covid patients in with the general hospital population and it isn't trivial to convert other hospital beds to the requirements of Covid while ensuring you keep everyone else in the hospital safe from infection. Lombardy does not have anywhere near enough intensive care capacity to handle the cases they've already seen, much less anything further.

You can see that in the death rate, it's happening because they can't care for the volume of older intensive care patients properly. They don't have the medical infrastructure capacity to do it. That's why Italy and other European nations such as France have an extreme variance in mortality rates, despite France and Italy both having similarly old populations. Germany is even older than Italy and I'm skeptical we're going to see anywhere near a 6% mortality rate there (their rate is very low so far). Italy's mortality rate has been abnormally high from the first few thousand cases in, when it quickly began overloading their healthcare system in Lombardy.
> If you are uncoerciable, it is unlawful to imprison you for refusing the order

No, it's not. It's just a different process (criminal contempt, which is punitive, instead of civil contempt, which is coercive.)

Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater scandal, is an example of someone receiving both maximum civil contempt sanctions and subsequently being charged with criminal contempt for the same incident.
Shameful? Yes.

Freedom of the press for trying to persecute a Russian agent? Well...

Sources:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/mueller-report-de...

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/07/15/ecuador-concluded-t...

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia...

And so on.
India also has a young population.
Completely and utterly false. Banks are at their lowest leverage of the last 40 years. This is verifiable hard data.
What country was that in?
Then why was WetterOnline paying for the data and how could they make a case out of it. Something is still missing...
I was at that meetup, and I do remember the Clojure crowd not being all that impressed. But it definitely came across that Arthur Whitney was a type of programming wizard. He had some offhand remark that he was running his laptop off of an OS he made with K, and was editing with an editor he made in K, but somehow what still working on getting a sound driver to work.
Global market share is not relevant. Target group(s) of the industry the application will be developed for and market share of iOS users amongst them is.

In English, unless you are developing apps for poor developing countries, you have to consider iOS users and often the iOS is the lead platform.

Couple of years ago I was developing app for well known Fortune 500 consumer brand in China and while iOS market share was about 15%, amount of iOS users for our apps were about 33% (1/3). When it came to customers actually using money iOS marketshare was somewhere around 40-50%.
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I've never heard of it before this thread, so I guess they had a marketing problem. But I will definitely check it out next time I have reason to.
This is a novel coronavirus, so no real relationship to the previous cases other than the shape.
Oh I definitely wouldn't argue that SF's transit system is good. NYC's is borderline good, everything else in the US doesn't qualify for the word.

I'd put my current city, Munich, at a similar level of good-ness to NYC, though it's more impressive, having a smaller population and all. If the S-Bahn didn't have so many problems in the winter, I'd not hesitate to call it good. There'd still be plenty of room for improvement, though.
Whats the difference? She needs x amounts of money.
Like all fiat money, it's conjured up out of thin air. And since money is ultimately debt, every dollar conjured up has to be worked off by the people.
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In the EU, free (at point of use) healthcare is available to all residents, including the unemployed. In several countries, you can get free treatment immediately even if you are not a resident.

That's a lot different from the USA, where tens of thousands of people die from lack of health insurance, and probably hundreds of thousands are bankrupted by the healthcare they get.

A quarter or more Americans put off seeking medical treatment because of the cost. By the time they seek treatment, it may be too late. I'm reminded of a carpenter who won $1 million and said he could finally go to see a doctor. He died a few weeks later from cancer.

A lot of Americans are one accident or illness away from financial ruin and poverty.

For all their problems, Europeans are a lot better off than this.

More than 26 000 Americans die each year because of lack of health insurance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323087/

New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...

The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-he...

More Americans Delaying Medical Treatment Due to Cost
https://news.gallup.com/poll/269138/americans-delaying-medic...

Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.3049...

Medical Bankruptcy Is Killing The American Middle Class
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/medical-bankruptcy-killing-a...

New York carpenter who won $1 million lottery prize dies of stage-4 cancer weeks later
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/02/lottery...

N.Y. man dies from cancer 3 weeks after winning $1M lottery
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-...
"it's not especially political"

Yes. Yes it is. How many times has Trump tweeted about the stock market and how it proves he is a great president? Hundreds. Literally. His NEA chair has explicitly stated "I have long believed that stock markets are the best barometer of the health, wealth and security of a nation. And today's stock market message is an unmistakable vote of confidence for the president." His entire political argument for reelection is premised on his "business acumen." His down playing of coronavirus (to what end? why?) was a blatantly partisan attempt to gamble that this whole thing would blow over rather than risk spooking the markets.
>If shelters were sufficient we wouldn't have people sleeping rough.

Sure you would. Some people don't want to ask for help and some people don't know that they can ask for help. Just having shelters isn't the whole story.

>And basic medical care includes preventative care, medications, visits to specialists, urgent care, childbirth, etc.

All of this is available for urgent issues. Hospitals won't let you die on their doorstep, but if you have a problem that builds up long-term then you're screwed. I would say that this is pretty much what I would consider basic healthcare to be. What you're looking for is full-blown healthcare.

I don't disagree with you that this is probably the way forward, but I loathe it when people understate their demands. You can't just say "we want just basic care" but what you mean by "basic care" is full-blown healthcare. That's why people will fight you every step of the way with few compromises.
What's the legal reasoning (if there's any) to keep her locked up and ruin her financially while not being able to swing the same punishment at all those people who refused to testify in the recent impeachment?
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I LOLed hard at this one.
The paper linked above is a quick and very easy read.