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regarding everyone on a motorcycle as a sociopath and/or deviant

As a society we have accepted that a safe and responsible motorcycle operator should be allowed to do their thing, and that the freedom (and convenience) is worth the increased risk compared to a car.

Moreover, how much of an increased risk does a responsible motorcycle operator actually pose compared to a car operator, without other vehicles involved?

IMO you should be subject to serious and increased legal penalties for reckless driving (failing to signal, etc.) when a safely-operated motorcycle is nearby. And likewise for motorcyclists who speed down the highway threading between lanes should.

You're also not the first person on the Internet to bring up the motorcycle false equivalence as a counterargument to disease control methods like this. Not sure what to make of that.

it suggests to me that people are unstable, that behavior and reasoning can suddenly change due to switching contexts

This is pretty much true in my experience. You can look up a field called "behavioral economics" if you don't want to take my word for it.

angry screed

Why do I even bother? Is everything you disagree with an "angry screed"?
Totally get that, and agree that this is an aspect if Python that is awesome for iteration on new ideas without many barriers.
However, this seems to make the assumptions that when you, as you say, transition to the industrial phase:
- MonkeyType will get all of the assumped types correct, which at any scale I doubt. Not because of the ability of the projects contributors, but because they warn about this in their own documentation
- If you're doing this at an industrial scale, and you haven't already documented/thought about/understood what these functions are. I'd appreciate that it may help intially, but still runs in to the problem I was discussing above.
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Yeah, I'm from Alberta and went to the U of A (but for A B.A. philosophy [unfinished] not CS).

Back in the 90s I ended up having to come out here to Ontario to get work in software development; not just because there wasn't any work in Edmonton really but because companies there really weren't even going to look at someone without a CS or engineering degree. Every once in a while I muse about moving back there and I take a look around at job postings and I think even with my 8 years as a SWE at Google (and a 20 year career in dev generally) I might have a hard time landing a job there; lots of postings heavily emphasizing the academic angle and obviously trying to pull people straight out of the university.

It's a more conservative business culture in some ways.
Non-repetitive weight lifting wouldn't be a good example, but neither is anything in 10s of km.

Mitochondria produce ATP as energy. You can't store much¹ ATP, therefore mitochondria must be capable of producing ATP at your near peak output (say 10s average).

I'd look at anything with high >10s peak power (probably a bonus if it's aerobic). Many bodybuilding exercises would qualify.

¹ Lactic acid is a byproduct of ATP production, therefore ATP supplies surely last less, than what it takes to start producing lots of lactic acid.
While I agree with you on e-ink being a much better reading experience, I would not say a Kindle is for technical references or other books with exact formatting requirements because the screen is so small. This, along with being underpowered, also makes reading PDF a pain because they are tiny on the screen and the Kindle has a hard time rendering them.

Now a Remarkable or other larger e-ink device would probably be better than the iPad, but last I checked they cost the same or more than an iPad Pro that can do so much more they feel like a waste of money.
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It's noted that the sensors would be "very small". Doesn't size translate to energy efficiency?
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I'd love a Rust job, but there are so few roles out there, nearly everything is Javascript/Python/Java. Is it worth even learning?
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A company that has too much debt but is otherwise viable can go through the bankruptcy. Ownership is transferred to the debt holders and equity holders are wiped out. Companies that aren’t viable will have their assets sold off to other companies that can make better use of them.

Dozens of airlines have come and gone over the last 50+ years but the planes didn’t just crumble to dust. Protecting companies that aren’t financially viable from bankruptcy doesn’t avoid losses but just increases the misery. The only benefit is spreading it out over a longer period of time and to different groups.
We are just CS students and started this just for learning and experiencing with hands on computer vision and AI. So things are not very mature. Like we haven’t make the inferencing on the end user devices. The recognition runs on the server instead. And we don’t have many images as you do. We just crawled images on the web. Also, it doesn’t work very well with cars that can’t be found at where we lived, because we dont even know those models exist lol
Personally I found the SVG specification very readable and understandable as well. It also has the benefit of accurately describing what the renderer should do (a lot of resources out there are outdated or inaccurate).
It doesn't sound like you are in disagreement, the parent story is just a flowery expression of the diminishing returns (control), the further you go.

As you say, the reality of it is that there are thresholds, for some where the benefit cost ratio is poor enough few will break through it from a higher level use... and then there are lower ratio thresholds in between where you will get various proportions of experienced people who want a little more control (in different directions) breaking through.

But even with those thresholds (in this case one IC vs another IC), it's arbitrary and subjective, you are just choosing to spend your time and effort in a different way.
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Oh my. Thanks for that explanation. Given the indifference of the US administration it suggests things may be spreading even faster over there than I realised. We'll know in a week or so.
Thank you for giving me some feedback.

Just as you replied to something I originally said to a different person, you aren't the only person reading any follow up remarks, nor will I be the only person reading your remarks. It's like a conversation happening on a stage with an audience of indeterminate size, but potentially thousands of people (or even tens of thousands).

It's always hard to figure out how to craft replies that both make sense to the specific person to whom I am replying and to the larger audience.

And this conversation has maybe gone places I didn't really want it to go and it would perhaps be best to just walk away at this point. I don't like being pitied and then people get mad about that and feel I am ungrateful.

Yes, I have a serious medical condition. But I also have a lot of mojo and a lot of accomplishments to my name, though they are accomplishments that don't do a heckuva lot for a resume and that people tend to be actively dismissive of.

I'd rather get real respect from people, not tea and sympathy. That's no doubt part of why the past decade has involved so much social friction

Anyway, thank you for your interest. If you are as brand spanking new as your handle suggests, let's just assume you simply don't have context and leave it at that.

Cheers.
For the very reasons you mention, I could never understand why anyone would get into this market either.

Unless some deep pocketed government is going to float you for security and intelligence purposes, there is no reason this stuff makes sense right now. When the fixed costs come down, and they will, the new competitors will wipe the floor with you.
I find it really depends on what you're reading. For flowing text, I prefer the paperwhite Kindle. But if there are graphics, illustrations, etc. the iPad wins. The iPad also does a lot of other things of course so, in practice, I'm not going to travel with a Kindle if I already have my iPad with me--which I typically do.

My general rule of thumb when I'm (normally) traveling a lot is that I bring one laptop-like device (MacBook, Chromebook) and one tablet-like thing (Kindle, iPad).
Terrific, thank you!
If i understood correctly, the USB interface is optional, as printed on the pcb.
If the code base needs to be rewritten anyway, why not to a memory safe language. Can be converted incrementally to Rust, too, because in the end its all machine code.
For Soviet-era bunkers and similar urbex I suggest you have a look at Shiey (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXwMqnXfJzazKS5fJ8nrVw/vid...) as well as Urbex Polska's videos on "Sobieskiego 100" (https://www.youtube.com/user/NaszaRzeczywistosc/videos).
To be clear, I expect that there were lots of local bands in the mid 80s playing decent-but-generic songs like this to appreciative local audiences.

Most of them are lost to the mists of time. This one is not. Others here have said the same in comments: "There are millions of songs like this that are lost in obscurity. "There are millions of demo tapes and CDs from endless ad-hoc bands that were never known"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637580
I'm not sure, but maybe you can have a look at the following projects to have an idea of prior art:

- jedi: https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi

- nuitka: nuitka.net/

- python language server: https://github.com/palantir/python-language-server

- pyright: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright

- pyre: https://pyre-check.org/

- and of course mypy: http://mypy-lang.org/

I don't think any of them qualify, but they may all have little pieces.

Also, if you need to analyze Python syntax, baron will help: https://pypi.org/project/baron/

Good luck.
What do you do when your algorithm works with array indexing and you are never supposed to handle than None within the Option?

Ie if you have indexed array out of bounds that’s a developer’s mistake and not a “condition to be handled up the stack”.

It’s ok to panic if you agree that it’s better to panic rather than end up in a state that will probably cause even more issues down the line
OK but how much larger than 2? Is it 2,5 or is it something like 5? Because the narrative so far doesn't fit the reality.
Yeah no way they're making 250k n95 masks when China is only able to produce 600k of them.
The amount of yeast will depend on the exact brand of yeast (and for perishable yeasts, its age). So recipe are more of a guideline and not a substitute for trial and error and knowing your yeast. Yeast isn't like sugar, it's a living organism rather than a simple molecule, so by weight measurements are not sufficient for reproducibility.
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Bunch of nonsense.

If you're in a high risk group, you should absolutely be wearing a mask. Every high risk group prevention is potentially worth an ICU bed or a hospital admission slot.
I mean this is what unemployment and governments are for. To insure losses in the extreme. We should have policies and procedures where a 2-4 week or month lockdown doesn’t destroy you financially. That gives the economy and people time to adjust.
Even if that is the case, it's not your choice, as I said before - it does not apply to those voluntarily unemployed. You are projecting arguments of basic income onto an economic solution for a pandemic where people are suddenly forced into unemployment or unpaid leave for a very specific reason...

Given a lack of choice how can paying wages make any difference to their employment behavior. I'll repeat: this is not basic income.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_debt#United_States

"Studies have found people are most likely to accumulate large medical debts when they do not have health insurance to cover the costs of necessary medications, treatments, or procedures"

In most cases, no job = no health insurance
I can see that perspective as long as the processors are segregated and the display doesn’t display any info necessary to mitigate a hazard.

The problem with a lot of software on embedded systems is that it’s easy to go down the rabbit hole and be one or two degrees away from declaring it critical. If everything is critical then nothing is
So there's an intrinsic cost to abstractions: namely that by using an abstraction, you're not specializing to the optimal extent possible; your general-purpose algorithm may well be close to ideal, but various details will not be; and even in languages that support specialization, you're likely to end up in a not quite optimal solution.

But that's not what people usually mean with zero-cost, right? They mean that assuming you do use the same algorithm, then the abstracted version is just as fast and memory efficient as the specialized version.

And that is a bar that C++ at least clearly meets, and, by the looks of it, rust is in practice much closer than C. Other languages have various features that address this need too; it's not that rare. C really is particularly poor here, but even C has macros, and although it's horrible in terms of usability, people nevertheless manage to do some pretty nifty stuff with macros.

Still; it's fair to say C is pretty bad at zero-cost abstractions, and that widely used alternatives support that a lot better (even C++ alone is a solid chunk of the market, more than C - https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/02/28/language-rankings-1-2...) Implementing a custom quicksort in C is a pain, enough pain that I expect most hand-tuned special case quicksorts are likely slower than general versions available for C++ simply because people aren't going to bother doing a good job; it's too much work. And that's just quicksort; the same goes for lots and lots and lots of other things too; reimplementing everything from scratch is just too much pain - in practice people are likely to not bother, and just pay the costs.

So while "zero-cost" abstractions are a slightly nebulous goal, clearly C in particular is worse at providing those than all of its low level competitors and wannabe competitors (C++, Rust, D, Nim, etc).
How does one find these sites? I've never been able to determine which are reputable
I've experienced some those issues in California, though not quite as severely as it sounds the prior poster has experienced them. I've never had a doubled order, that I've noticed, but things silently disappearing the carts without being purchased at purchase time seems pretty common to me (and not due to items being sold out).

It's been compounded by the sales that force use of the shopping cart when I otherwise might not use it (because the discount is one time).
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I will definitely check this out!

Very similar is https://google.github.io/pytype/ which also infers and adds annotations, as well as providing a type checker which in some ways works better than mypy (recursive types!)
Well, it definitely is a meme as defined by Dawkins[0]. In general, I would say that analogies and metaphors like this one have a huge impact on normal science, and are one of the main things that change during a paradigm shift. I recall a great example in how 150 years ago people thought of the body's physiology as analogous to a steam engine with downstream effects due to pressure building up, contrasted to how in today's computer age, we tend to think of physiology in terms of signal processing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics
I can literally store thousands of books on my Kindle so storage is fine. The battery lasts weeks without recharging. E ink screen is just way better for reading books. Who cares about swiping I just want to turn the page.
This kind of reminds me of how controller-based GUIs work in some console games. Basically you move focus around with the directional buttons or the analog stick.
No, on HN I usually just type something related to whatever is on my mind at the time.

No prizes for guessing what it was this time.
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Fivethirtyeight has been surveying epidemiologists:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/infectious-disease-expe...

Responding on March 16 and 17 to the question, "how many cases will the US report by March 29", their median prediction was 19,000. As of this moment, early on the 21st, that figure has ALREADY been exceeded (per Worldometer). Based on current growth rates, it appears virtually certain that the actual figure on the 29th will exceed the "best-guess" prediction of every single expert surveyed, and the "high-end" prediction of all but one or two. They've completely whiffed a prediction just a few days out.

This is a novel (no pun intended) situation, even for epidemiologists. To understand it, critical thinking skills are at least as important as subject matter expertise. My read is that the Medium article represents some of the best critical thinking on the subject so far.
If COVID19 was spreading in the US since November then the US hospital system should have been overwhelmed by now with intensive care patients. The first infection in China was traced back to November and they were building hospitals by early February.

The only places I've seen the first US infection being dated that early are conspiracies on Chinese social media that claim the origin of COVID19 to be the US instead of Wuhan. The only way that theory works is to date the first infection in the US and claim that Americans bought it into China during the Wuhan Military games. That theory is easy enough to debunk with common sense because if the US had COVID first the hospitals would be completed overwhelmed before China's was, but it's not the first time wishful thinking's buried common sense in Chinese history.
You are benefiting!

Yes, contact lenses are medical devices that needs to be regulated. Imagine if you bought contacts from Amazon, received a counterfeit batch, and it wrecked your vision? Who could you even sue?

These laws protect you the consumer. I am sorry you are inconvenienced.

Alcohol abuse is the third largest preventable cause of death in the US and the death rate has doubled in the last 20 years. Kills on average 88,000 people per year in the US. Liquor licensing is one of the few tools we have to protect us.

We need to sober up.
I tried the beta and thought it was neat for the first 30 seconds and super annoying for the next ten minutes. I haven’t tried to do anything serious with it yet.

It definitely makes it feel choppy when trying to move around the screen and do things quickly. It does store the underlying position and accelerates to catch up when you pull out of a touch target, but it still chops up the movement visually.
>My expectation is that it would not happen at all.

I had a 2011 Nissan, and if you went somewhere the nav system didn't recognize (like a new highway) the nav interface would freeze and reboot. Was annoying.

Other than that, I've never had a car UI crash.
I was bored so I just went out to my garage and checked this myself.

The wipers do not freeze when the MCU crashes or restarts. They continue working on the speed they were running at when the MCU crashes or restarts.
I mean, any smooth curve (without singularities) is well approximated by simple polynomials locally, which is simply its power series expansion. Doesn’t mean simple polynomials would necessarily hold much predicative power, however well they fit the current data. Higher order terms, if any, will come to dominate.
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Izzy is wonderful for maintaining so many apps in his F-Droid repositories, definitively worth adding to your F-Droid.
If it runs on Ubuntu it runs on nearly any Linux distribution.
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I don't know if it was a top answer when you looked 8 hours ago, but a cardiovascular physiologist answered (14 hours ago) a very thorough, detailed answer with second-order explanations. It's now _the_ top comment, here is a direct link with tracking removed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/fm2z8x/if_a_hea...
> simply preserve all of the required-type information for all of the execution paths of the program

A type-flow analysis? Due to Python language features such a meta-programming and runtime code execution, you may find that at the end of this all your reported types will come out as 'Any' and the tool will be useless!
You'd still need to write some custom CSS depending on the design you want to achieve, though.
So, you're finally not only changing just the HTML.
Hm, I wonder if that's local to your region? In the countries I've in in Europe, I've always followed the recipes exactly regarding all ingredients, including yeast, and made good stuff, even with different brands of yeast. Or simply my taste buds are terrible.
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From this point going forward it is no longer a usual extracurricular item. The school that they are applying to has specifically told all applicants that they don’t want to hear about their subject test score. It would be unusual to include it, not to mention blatantly violating application submission instructions, which applicants are expected to carefully follow.

In any case, his name is “cognitive elite.” If he is who he says he is, then he would have find other ways to prove his eliteness/worthiness if subject tests were not being considered for any applicant. He had the initiative to study for that test. If he knew that it would have been a waste of time to study for it, then maybe he would have taken that same time and initiative to do something else to make his application stand out.
> Imagine if you bought contacts from Amazon, received a counterfeit batch, and it wrecked your vision? Who could you even sue?

The same entity I would sue if I was damaged by any other product that was unfit for purpose: the dealer and/or manufacturer who sold the faulty goods.

Your argument doesn't really hold up with that example.

Alcohol abuse, drunk driving aside, doesn't directly physically harm anyone who doesn't fully consent to the effects of alcohol in their body. You're fine to believe that people shouldn't drink, or shouldn't drink as much as they do: I even agree with you.

You're not fine to think that people should use the threat of violence (police/regulation enforcement) against people who would peacefully sell alcohol to consenting adults who wish to buy it.
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>nearly everything is Javascript/Python/Java.

That's depends on where you are living (if you are looking for a local job of course).

But sure, Rust is a pretty new language with a relatively high entry threshold.

Is it worth learning? Yes if you are planning to do system\relatively low-level stuff in the future.
Yes, VS Code is not an IDE I use on daily basis, but I'd like to see extensions for VS Code and Android Studio.
VS extension works by handling document save event, and if all open documents are saved it makes a commit. CLI tool can be used from non .net environments.

Another idea I have is to gather all the changes and show some kind of "heat map of changes" in the IDE document view.