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Wouldn't it beneficial for a prominent atheist like Dawkins to believe that feelings of divinity are merely side effects from some electric fields near the head? If he were to lie wouldn't he do so in favor of the God Helmet having an effect?
>The way we do that experimentally is to put the bacteria inside a liquid crystal.

>but this capability of the drug delivery by bacteria, this is something new.

Step one: replace the patient's blood with calculator display juice.

Step two: Liquid-crystal guided drug delivery.
Compare cases per million residents and reconsider.
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It's thin and light, but even with small bezels it's not that small due to the 14 inch screen. It's nearly a full inch wider than both macbook air and macbook pro 13 and it's a little deeper.

It's a shame lenovo stopped updating the 12 inch X series as it would be the obvious answer to this question.
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The infection rate was 10% for the cruise ships.

The mortality rate was low but, the cruise ships don't have nursing homes or people in the hospitals.

China tracked people down using their phones and isolated people so they couldn't infect their families.
They also completely skip by VX "gas" and seem to assume that aerosol is the only dispersal mechanism.

VX is more a surface coating than a gas. "minefields" of VX could be laid very rapidly and randomly which would be a bane to mobile troops. If saddam actually had a VX supply and laid it down in key areas, the US soldiers would have suffered many times more KIA (and there's no effective treatment -- gallons of atropine per patient simply isn't viable).
Uhm, could you elaborate? Org mode/Babel supports many languages and is feature rich. Why would you say, the statement "Babel is Jupyter notebook on steroids" is laughable?
It seems like it wouldn't be terribly hard to check the existence of Moose Flats pond by pulling up the Google maps satellite view and then scrolling backward on the timeline. Even if it's a periodic feature it should show up in some of the pictures taken over time.

It's also a bit strange how they lost track of where they were in relation to the lodge. They didn't have phones with them? Even if you were foolish enough to go hiking without an offline mapping app you can still get from point A to point B.
IMHO the advantages of functional programming is often looked for in examples that are too small for them to exist.

There is no advantage in sorting a billion numbers the functional way.

There is an advantage to gain, though, when the unsorted numbers are used for other purposes besides sorting. Then, functional programming demands that the output of sorting is written to a new 1-billion array instead of "in place", so other clients can consume the same array in parallel without being disturbed by the sorting.

> So, deep down in the guts of the language's libraries there must be mutable operations. Which kind of defeats the whole point.

It doesn't defeat the point if the abstraction doesn't leak. If a pure functional language offers sorting as a pure primitive, then language-wise it doesn't matter that it actually mutates memory internally.

The problem with "mostly" pure functional languages is that the abstraction leaks enough to make it useless.
This logic would work if people who cannot afford TP = people who don't need it, but this assumption would make the model unrealistic imo.

If bartering was allowed, even bowel prob guy night have a shot.

There are variables in the model, the price of the rationed goods still reduces waste. Similarly the income distribution of the presumed society affects how many couldn't afford any 10x priced tp. Etc.
>South Korea's naive case fatality rate (CFR) is already 120 deaths/9037 cases

But the denominator in this formula strongly depends on who and how often you test. In other words: You don't know the number of cases.

Obviously, people who are severely affected are tested more often. People with mild or no symptoms might never be tested, even if they want to (I'm not sure about South Korea but for sure this is happening in Germany).

Based on people in the German parliament and the German soccer league, you can currently guestimate that 1% of the population is already infected (1% of the parliament and 1% of the premier league players are infected. I suspect that they are tested more often and even without symptoms. Maybe they have more contact to other people - maybe not).

Yes, this is a wild guess, but much better than taking the confirmed cases which are heavily biased towards people where the infection causes problems.
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I can't imagine being productive on such a small machine. I feel like I need three screens to keep things moving smoothly.
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>I don't get point of functional programming. Machines don't work that way.

FP is useful because it provides an abstracted model that is pretty easy to reason about. It doesn't matter how it gets implemented, that's the point of the abstraction.

We don't write programs for machines to understand. We write programs for humans to understand.
>It would be a panacea, a miracle drug.

Not really, a panacea is a drug that cures everything. If chloroquine was found to be an effective antiviral, it would only be a drug that cured two things. That's common enough to not warrant excessive skepticism taken alone.
First, it's important to distinguish between genotype and phenotype. Most genetic mutations don't cause any change in behavior or appearance, so the two individuals are phenotypically equal.

With sexual reproduction, individuals can differ genetically but still be compatible, so there is some notion of a pool with a clear boundary. For viruses, this is of course a bit trickier because they "reproduce asexually"[0] and quite rapidly, so mutations happen at a high rate. But one useful property to distinguish them is which receptors (and thus which cells) they bind to, generally affecting what symptoms and diseases they cause.

[0]: Viruses are not considered living things, so the concept of reproduction is already quite a stretch.
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If people think all those munitions are simply going away,they must not know the US military. You can bet everything that only old, outdated munitions get destroyed. The US has flagrantly violated every other treaty and there's no reason to believe this one is different.
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Every new paradigm you look will feel like a breath of fresh air. However, I would strongly recommend striking a balance between shiny new syndrome and shipping things, the former can spiral into endless level of choices.
France and the UK were, depending on how you count them, still the #3 and #4 economies in the world at that time. Ravaged by war, but still backed (though not as solidly) by colonial empires or at least neo-colonial institutions (Commonwealth, Francophonie).

Who did the Soviets have, that was worthy of being mentioned as an ally? China? That was about it.

And fear of Communism was much higher than fear of the US. Therefore making a lot of countries natural American allies.
> At no point in the ipod's history was it particularly innovative with its hardware in comparison to competing devices

When the iPod came out I remember the main competitor was the Creative Nomad Jukebox. It was bulky (it was the around the same size as a Sony discman), the screen was small, and it had like 11 weirdly shaped buttons, and I think had recharable AA batteries (that took like 12 hours to charge). It was awesome to have all those songs on there, but the thing was a chore to use.

The original iPod was Mac only but it was delightful to use, it fit in your pocket, had an innovative scrolling mechanic, and charged through the same wire as it used for data.

Of course marketing and harmony with iTunes helped a ton, but pound for pound the iPod was simply a better product even without those crutches.
For starters, small characters are not just sized-down versions of large characters. Ligatures et al further complicate things. When you actually try to deal with font management and image quality you'll realize why they went through the trouble of making it so.
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I'm strongly of the opinion that a company that cannot work remotely is a company that has poor communication and processes. While working in an office does have benefits, the habits that remote work forces you to have by necessity benefit on-premise companies too in my opinion.
No: the iPod's success was in playing the vast library of pirated music everybody had collected on their desktop PC for years thanks to Napster, Kazaa, etc. Remember the fad of "burning" CDs? That was not based on "infrastructure-level cultural presence", but rampant music piracy in the 90s.
The post and linked article don't explain what ERG or BRG is.
Why is there a run on toilet paper? The supply chain isn’t disrupted. Even if it is and there is a shortage, what’s the big deal if you run out and have to poop before you shower? How about instead of buying 40 pounds of toilet paper now, taking some of that money and time at home and installing a bidet? I have a Toto and it’s the best, I will never not have a bidet in my home. Do you wipe peanut butter off a plate with a napkin or do you rinse it with water? It’s a world of difference and uses 95% less toilet paper.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I remember videos of Chinese people, very unhappily, being forced to stay in their homes by armed guards, as opposed to them obediently trusting their government.

Maybe I'm misremembering?
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It will but I happen to know about virtual destructors. I do some reading every once in a while to glance over the things. So some interesting pieces get stuck in my secondary RAM ;) But yes I know C++ could be a dangerous beast but so far it's been kind to me.
I am not sure if company must give everything to remote workers. Remote worker has immense gain of avoiding wasted commute time. I happily pay by myself for an extra room and equipment just to avoid this wasted time.

I am working for a company where all decisions are made and communicated during lunch break in the canteen or near water cooler. At the moment the managers look pretty clueless, they have no idea how to start written communication.
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That's just an optimization layer, though. I actually have a hard time telling this apart from `java.util.function.Predicate` with its default `and`, `or`, and `negate` methods...

I can certainly understand using something like this when your users are building rules, because you don't know what they want to build so you just provide the base implementations and the operators. But if engineers are implementing all the logic, it seems like the criticisms called out in Wikipedia regarding obfuscation and re-implementation of basic operators would apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_pattern#Criticis...
Rhinovirus is another well known cause for a common cold. A quick search result: webmd [1] gives 10%-40% for rhinovirus, 20% for coronavirus. CDC [2] has rhinovirus as the most common cause, and adds: “ Other viruses that can cause colds include respiratory syncytial virus, human parainfluenza viruses, adenovirus, human coronaviruses, and human metapneumovirus.”

[1] https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_ca...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/features/rhinoviruses/index.html
It's been hitting those in assisted living facilities rather hard, and those people would likely not be able to take a cruise.
Looks like Pi Hole on a larger scale. Maybe I'll test it out as the upstream provider for my Pi Hole.
That works if an abstraction doesn't leak.

Since we are not quite there yet, could you explain in broad terms how a large collection is sorted while maintaining performance and immutability.
I studied viruses for a job a few years ago. I looked at RNA viruses mostly and specifically influenza. The way they work is truly astonishing but you quickly realise it's an unfortunate inevitability given the way our genetics works.

One interesting thing I remember is that virtually every human over a year old or so is "infected" with at least a handful of viruses for life. The scare quotes are because we really don't know what effect these viruses have on us. They could be beneficial for all we know.

To add further complexity consider that bacteria get infected by viruses (called bacteriophages). All those bacteria inside you are in turn "infected" by viruses. Phages are so numerous that a drop of seawater contains about ten million of them. Also they are literally like microscopic genome injection machines. Look up some pictures and electron microscope images.
Reflects my thoughts exactly. Also, all the amenities are overcrowded. I've seen photos (while doing research before writing GP) and I can't imagine having to stay in such an invested place for longer than a day or two.
"The best of society as more important than their own freedoms" is a false choice here. I believe very strongly in working for the best of society which is why I bring up this very point. This kind of effect is also borne out in safety literature. If you want this to succeed to you have to remove consequences for reporting (and this means ensuring you are not overreacting to initial reporting or concerns)

There is surely a compromise option here as well where the government does not get the data and/or you do not give everything up in order to achieve this outcome?

Even a strict agreement about what specific data goes to the government, for how long, or having private companies or a purposely formed non-profit entity handle this would be better than handing your phone to your government.

I'm hardly a libertarian but I do think it's important to consider how best to protect hard won freedoms before running toward the expedient, safe-feeling choice.
"They didn't have phones with them?"

I've had to give people paper copies of maps more than once when hiking because their batteries were flat on their phones.

NB I take a phone, an external battery pack and two copies of paper maps.

Edit: As an aside, I'm trying to reduce my reliance on digital maps and go back to using paper maps and compass more as I'm sure it reduces awareness of where you are (I've actually made more navigational mistakes using digital maps than when I mostly used paper maps).
Not being any sort of competent in any sort of field related to this:

From my understanding, most of what's inside our bodies isn't part of our genetics. For example there's lots and lots of bacteria, microbes, whatever that constitutes the fauna of the digestive system, it's not produced by the body but is essential to its functioning.

Once again, I don't really know what I'm talking about
If you have Q&A, these meetings can definitely be effective.
Ask HN: How to Find Anomalies in JSONs?
Hello everyone, I have some JSON files(>1000, possibly stream of JSONs) which look quite similar.

If I want to find anomalies among them, what would be the way to go? I saw that k-means isn't the best method.

I don't want to find particularly examples which are just a little bit different from others, but examples which are VERY different. If you ever did web development, you might as well in your life have got a strange error inside a JSON instead of what you expected. I want to be able to get it with an algorithm.

Why I want to do that? I have a few APIs I use, but sometimes they end up changing those responses or give out unknown response body's. I want my algorithm/model to be able to detect them and show me a list of the biggest anomalies.

If I manage to do it successfully, I'll make sure it's open source. Also if you know an easy way or an OSS solution, please also share). Hell, even if you know what I should study! I was studying deep learning but didn't find any known methods by me that I could use in order to make sense of that data.
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I've read about benefits not related to zinc, in addition to the zinc-related mechanism. It helps zinc get into the cell which prevents the replication of the virus, but there are additional benefits of this chemo medication. I'd have to take some time to find the particulars, if you read the original French study I think it details all the theoretical benefits.

With any chemo drug I suspect it won't have a huge effect on patients who are mild, in fact it could have a negative effect, but I'm no expert.
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Expression trees are a .NET capability to compile a series of expressions during runtime. It's not required for this at all; it's just an optimization. It allows the complex tree of Specification objects to be compiled down into a simple delegate function, rather than evaluating by walking the tree.
In Clojure-land, there are a few similar projects. I enjoy working with Clara: http://www.clara-rules.org, https://github.com/cerner/clara-rules
Agree. Any hiccup in latency sends me on a deep diagnosis dive where normally Id have waited it out. My wife's texts were not going through yesterday and that triggered another deep dive.
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“China? That’s about it.” China is freaking massive. Both in terms of geography and population. Russia + China is enough to vastly outnumber and “outgun” the US.

I don’t think we’re really disagreeing on much. My original comment was pretty nitpicky.
The island is heavily treed. If moose flats pond and boulder do exist, they're likely not visible from Google maps.
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Most of our dollars are digital now, just ledgers in servers. What difference does this make?
Drums as containers makes perfect sense for smaller items yet I'd never heard of this form of transport for personal belongings. Thanks for the anecdote.
We're still a long way from Korea's testing capability. Mass use of surgical masks in public probably also helps.
Define "a joke". There were quite a few flash-based players that predate the ipod and a couple of hard drive based ones. Heck, Rio was three generations into their mp3 players when the ipod was released.

Apple fixed the experience for non-nerd. Instead of having to go online and find music files yourself you could just go buy them.
I recommend you the "Manga Guide to Databases" :-) It's a very, very good introduction to relational databases and SQL.

https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Databases-ebook/dp/B007XL...
I shorted Royal Caribbean on the way down and am now buying shares. I figure most of the impact is priced in, I am a long hold on them now and we will see where it shakes out when it is all over. They have an extremely loyal customer base.
It sounds like you haven't had experience with doing a soft reboot.

And yet, apparently you have, from your parent of parent comment... bizarre.

You make it sound like some elaborate easter egg that's hard to remember and is only buried deep in the manual as a crazy special detailed long sequence of steps.

It's neither some very mysterious sequence, nor hard to memorize, nor hard to learn about. And you don't even need to know it.

As you well know it's just holding down two buttons which are right on the steering wheel basically where your thumbs are already resting as you drive. So why are you spreading FUD?

You don't even need to take your eyes off the road. Not even for one second. The buttons are right there where you can feel them.

And no, it's not something you could or would ever do accidentally unless you were trying odd stuff just to see what would happen. And if you did, it would be no big deal, and the car would continue driving just fine, and the UI would come back by itself after a few seconds. But again, this wouldn't happen.

>It's a very specific sequence detailed in the manual...

That is overly dramatic. Like, to the point where you should win an award. And the manual is not the only source for this "vErY sPeCiFiC sEqUEncE."

It's one step: hold the two buttons for a few seconds. As you said yourself.

In the unlikely even that A) a person driving the car doesn't know about this, B) they are running software that most cars don't have any more, C) they are using their web browser while driving, and D) they loaded a strange site that contained a hack, then they could just pull over and call for advice from service.

Service would tell them to press the buttons for a few seconds, and they could be on their way in under a minute including the time for the phone call.
Found it in 3 clicks. Maybe it's been recently updated?

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRL/rl.c...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRL/rl.c...
It seems like they already did that[1].

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron
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The iTunes store might have been important, but at least to me, the user interface was the amazing part. I remember when I got my first iPod. I already had a shitty mp3 player and a ton of illegally downloaded music, so I didn't need to use the iTunes store. I remember being amazed at how intuitive it was to choose an album to play, or an artist. So easy.
Has anyone found the study they're talking about?
This tweet is only a screenshot of the abstract.

And the trials registry entry says "No results published":
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517

Update: I asked the person on twitter and here it is: http://subject.med.wanfangdata.com.cn/UpLoad/Files/202003/43...
Apparently it's in chinese.
Replace "language" with "standard interface/protocol", and replace "programming language based reconciliation method" with "standard interfaces for managing infrastructure and network service components", and I agree.

"One-size-and-tool-fits-all" solutions will never work for everyone. But if you standardize the operations, and the language for communicating operations in between components, and then let anyone implement any one of these parts in a platform agnostic way - including kernels, SDNs, hypervisors, storage, processing, etc - then you have platform independent ways of managing state.

At that point state will be important but trivial, the way state in a TCP connection is trivial. We care what the state is, but every component in the network can interact with the state in a standard way, to the point that nobody tears their hair out about "oh no the network protocols are sending state everywhere!!!" If any tool can read and understand the same state in the same way, any tool can manage it (meaning multiple tools managed by multiple people). That's how network protocols work; let's just extend the model into general computing.
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