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Does removing the moisture prevent that thin layer of raw/uncooked/wet dough just under the marinara sauce? That's my biggest problem with making pizza at home and I thought it was because I just couldn't get my home oven hot enough.
My understanding of the article was that it doesn't need to be a blood-borne disease. The authors point out several times that, while most people would assume this works by directly killing germs (i.e. like sterilizing water with UV), this is not the mechanism. The exact mechanism is still unclear (which is one of the reasons it was never as widely adopted), but it seems more likely to be boosting the immune system.

So there would be no need to shine UV light directly into the lungs.
Don't be. There's a lot of luck involved in the interview process and most people who had luck on their side won't understand this.
Exactly, I completely forgot it. Thanks!
Finding good games to play online with friends and family is a difficult task, because you find very much crap. So I appreciate the post.

I implemented the games Halma, Mühle and Dame. Don't know the English names.

Ui for now is only in German:

https://wunderwald.games
No, the bacterial problem is true. COVID-19 causes massive bacterial infections in the lungs. Think of the green slime you cough out with the common cold, but deep in your lung. It's almost the same virus after all.
The virus itself causes something else in the red bloodcells prohibiting the transport of oxygen, but this is unlikely the major letal problem.
At the very least they added a Vulkan renderer too.

But at the end of the day Source 1 is also just a modified GoldSrc engien which is just a modified Quake engine. Doesn't really mean much when there have been extensive modifications over time.
Ah I see, interesting! I think they call that pyrolytic cleaning in Europe. The problem with that is that some ovens will lock the door for at least 30 minutes to keep people from burning themselves on the very hot surface. I learned this the hard way when I accidentally enabled this program, luckily without having any food in the oven :D
I believe the answer to your question of why developers don't generally treat quality the way dentists do is one of economics.

The world needs enough software, and the world's requirements for quality are low enough, and the average developer writes reliable-enough code, that in most cases money can be made without special attention to quality.

In some domains, quality is paramount. I imagine that quality and bug mitigation are the primary concerns of someone who manages, say, an X-ray machine firmware project, or avionics software. Software for these purposes that is not extremely reliable cannot compete in that market. For other kinds of software people are paid to write -- like social networks for pets -- reliability is a much lower priority.

Certain kinds of software needs to be rewritten constantly to meet the demands of highly-evolving markets. Games are an example of this. Reliability is important, but not paramount, because the underlying business can only continue to compete by at some point stopping work on the reliability of existing games, and moving on to developing new games.

I'm sympathetic to the respect you have for the value of high quality software. But the reality is, the value of quality varies dramatically within the software industry -- much more than it does within, say, dentistry, or medicine, or aviation.

Fewer bugs isn't necessarily the primary concern of those using and buying any particular kind of software.
Well, GNOME people came up with it, others - especially the smaller desktops/WMs who do not exactly have RedHat money behind them - didn't really ask for it.

In any case, it certainly isn't config-free but it should be an one time thing only and then you should be able to have tear-free video playback on Linux under Xorg just fine. It is really up to your video player to do it though. Personally i do not remember having issues with VLC using either AMD or Nvidia GPUs.
There was a study fairly recently showing that sunlight (UV) kills the virus. I suspect he just saw that, or maybe it was on Fox News, and he picked it up from there. Similarly, there were some preliminary studies that showed effectiveness of HCLQ, which he latched onto and ran with.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sunlight-destroys-coronavirus-ver...
This is the same with your example though? Anyone can upload a video talking about the coronavirus, they just might not receive money for it (they'll be demonetized). Youtube only seems to be taking an active 'censorship' approach for comments spreading bad information about the virus. Whether or not "against WHO advice" is a good metric for this is debatable, but the goal seems worthwhile.

> The issue with censorship is that it has to grow. You can't defend taking down say, videos about the Israel BDS movement, and not also take down videos about Free HK.

I fail to see how this property, if it exists, is any less present in a "moderated but without explicit censhorship" system.
Yeah, that dismissive, condescending view of Bergson is par for the course of many Analytic's attitudes towards Continentals (though Bergson himself was not part of the Continental tradition).

Sure, such condescension may be the best that Russell can muster, but I'm not sure you'd get a charitable reading of Bergson (or any other philosopher Russell didn't like) from someone so hostile and unappreciative of him.

Russell did take Nietzsche more seriously, but to me it seems Nietzsche just went over Russell's head. Russell is best at reading other philosophers who, like himself, are clear, easy to understand, and relatively conventional.
The FDA seems pretty set where the alternative medicine practice of ozone therapy falls in terms of both safety and effectiveness as a medical therapy.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
That doesn't inherently follow at all. It very much depends on the company in question. IBM has a very profitable business and has for the past decade.

They're paying around mid 2.x% interest on their debt ($1.3b interest expense last fiscal year). You can double that rate, and IBM can safely handle the cost. They can afford to pay far higher interest rates on their debt while still producing excellent profitability.
The president is getting his information form the CDC and other advisors. Pretending he's sourcing it from Facebook is pure fantasy.
French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries amid coronavirus risk
Hypothesised? In Krimea they give nasal photobiomodulation as actual treatment and I was subject to it more than once.
The pipe operator in R also sort of does my head in.

I learned R in a way that everything went right to left. The variable on the left was manipulated by whatever (functions or other code) on the right.

The pipe operator reverses that flow, with everything now moving left to right, which I find difficult to follow and debug.
From the news it looks like he died of disease.
Austin has a local board game Meetup group that's shifted entirely to Tabletop Simulator during this time. It's great and definitely maintains the best feeling of playing a physical board game.

I'm surprised that the author didn't mention the hundreds of games that you can download for free in the Steam Workshop as mods. Not all of them work flawlessly, so you have to test things out beforehand. However, the almost unlimited array of options is what makes TTS stand out.

We've found that games without hand management tend to work best. Over the past 4 weeks, we've run games like Arkham Horror, Great Western Trail, Terra Mystica, Blood Rage, Caverna, Puerto Rico, Hansa Teutonica, Concordia, Lords of Waterdeep, and Quacks of Quedlinburg.
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I understand wanting to open some businesses. They've been doing it in many European countries over the last week (though they have much higher testing rates and have had much longer lockdowns). But gyms? Bowling alleys? These seem like very odd places to open up.
Same here. I’ve considered wiping my resume and leaving off my background intentionally just to get the chance to interview at the entry/junior level. Of course, those positions are now mostly exclusively reserved for those coming out of college. So unless you have the income and time to go get another CS degree, you still can’t apply.

This is all assuming you can get past the resume filter which is all luck unless you know someone with enough pull within the company already.
Why would going to a gold backed currency imply that debt would be wiped out? I can see the machiavellian reasoning for spending trillions of debt financed dollars if you know you're going to default, but I don't get how the gold standard helps.

I could believe that Trump wants to do one or both, but I don't see them as connected in a coherent way.
Little bit but not incorrect. See my comment for expose by Whitney Webb.
I normally frown on people who whine about paywalls. Publishers have to make a living, and you are not entitled to access their content for free. But I gotta say, that is a devilishly clever hack.
Hey. We're super sorry about that. We are using the Twilio Video SDK for video conferencing and one thing we check is that your browser is supported by the SDK before entering a game room. The messaging on the error screen you encountered isn't great and we'll work on improving it. The experience works best on desktop Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge. On mobile iOS it only works on Safari browser.
Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions
Funny in its way. I was thinking about this a while back. IMO HN as a community is mostly introverted (subjective/qualitative) and structure-biased, so open-ended discussions on "erudite" topics which may not be direct specialties of commenters will encourage a sort of performing or even bluffing effect, out of community-identity stress.

At that time I think I concluded that the least-pressured conversations, and likely most positive and upbeat, would be those on topics like retro computing. Such a topic is close to the HN tech-user specialty, close to the heart because of its strong integration with personal past experiences, and mostly made up of "known" or "closed-ended" topics. So, far from a performance or bluff, you get some pretty passionate tales from direct experience, and erudition be damned.

Not sure if that's a rule, but so far it matches my personal perceptions of what makes a really good discussion here, vs. one that's...less like that.
There are at least a few of us on here that are actual biologists- and with the increasing overlap of biotech and hacking, maybe we'll see more of us on here soon? Especially with how much HN seems to enjoy bio related threads, it's nice to see people at least engaging with the subject. And it looks like with time some of the poorer faith comments do get buried, however plentiful they may be.
I don't have a phone because I don't want to be tracked. So they can stick this right where sun doesn't shine, I'd rather do the duration in prison.
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This looks like another non-apology from a PR person, just a slightly more competent PR person than whoever wrote the epic failure that was their previous blog post on this subject.

If someone tries to steal your car and gets caught, then says they only meant to steal your TV, and then when challenged says they understand that they should have been more upfront with you that they were going to try to harm you, they are not a good person. Sadly, I don't perceive any more legitimate remorse or sincerity about fixing the root cause here than there was last time.

The fact is that right now, several days after this all kicked off, if you go to WD's site and choose Products and then NAS internal drives from the menu, it still links to Reds and says (in very big letters, repeatedly) things like:

"Designed and Optimized for NAS Compatibility"

and

"WD Red Provides Storage Compatible with Leading NAS Systems"

Based on that, it appears that they are still selling drives that are not fit for their stated purpose. Everything else is just spin.
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Each every single counrty in this world had the chance to close the boarder early. They all failed. And things like that should be the solution now? Seriously? Even with the wristband people transfer the virus. So it's totaly useless.
This really reads to me as "the whole field of psychology is compromised" and it's not a surprise for many.

>Is it good science if the standards research are held to are not consistent depending upon the topic?

Passing a single standard would be a start.
On the one hand it's incredibly sad that they have to make announcements like that. On the other hand, this reaalllly feels like evolution in action.
> most creative engineers don't have the mindset to mindlessly study for algorithms interviews, only to then have to spend years in constrained engineering roles.

I agree with this, but then they can't really complain about luck when they had the option to fix it. It was a choice they made and now they have to live with it. It is fine to gamble, but then you shouldn't complain about the outcome if you lose.
I think they'd end up a bit thin for my taste, but true, that should also work just fine.
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> No pain no gain. If the US and SV opportunities aren't a type of gain that's compelling to you then of course you dont need to worry about it

There are many reasons why this might be out if your control, beyond visa requirements. Maybe you have dependents your can’t bring with you (sick or elderly family for example), or maybe your SO has a job that’s hard to move. Or you have a family and can’t afford the crazy SV rent for a place large enough.
Sounds horrible, poor guy.
Coronavirus: Disinfectant firm warns after Trump comments
Just an idiot would be triggered by the daily Anti-Trump reflex. Most of the things he mentions are half-true, just in a very silly way.

In the COVID-19 case the major problem is the bacterial sepsis caused by the infection.
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Um, the "top spec" MB Pro price is completely irrelevant since that's inflated with vast amounts of really fast SSD.

The relevant comparison is to the $2400 MBP base price.
Original article is
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/working-f...
But the url is too long
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Very cool! I'm particularly interested in this section:

> SpaceTime database is built on a unique, multidimensional data index that automatically adapts to mutable and possibly highly skewed data distribution (which is usually the case with data coming from moving objects). There is one single multi-columnar index which indexes all associated columns of records at once. There are no secondary indices!

> The physical model intertwines index and record data – as a consequence, records that are logically close (based on id, position and timestamp) are at the same time also physically close. In turn, this maximizes the throughput of disk reads.

> The main ideas for inventing SpaceTime index came from several inspiring scientific papers. It is similar to the kd-tree family of indices, but with two major improvements: first, the index tree in SpaceTime is built using the bottom-up approach (as opposed to the top-down kd-tree construction) and second, the process of index creation adapts to particular space-time distribution of data. Kd-trees work well on a large scale only with static datasets; our bottom-up approach overcomes this.

Can you provide links to the scientific papers that were mentioned?

Are there any plans to publish a more detailed description of SpaceTime's index data structure and algorithm?
> Seems to follow that apple varieties ended up lost to the dustbin of history because they didn't taste very good?

There was a long, long period in which resistance to rough handling during shipping and long storage was far more important than taste. To some degree, that's still true, although we're in much better shape with respect to tasty fruit and vegetables than people were even as recently as the 1980s.

For decades, just about the only type of tomato you could get in a standard grocery store was the aptly-named "Red Rock" variety. Farmers markets and specialty stores sometimes offered a better selection in rural and large urban areas, but for most of the country it was either Red Rock or grow them yourself.
> he just encouraged them to mainline it.

He never said anything about mainlining bleach though.
Tell HN: Active XSS Attack on Reddit.com
When visiting reddit today some users (including me) have been experiencing a popup to a suspicious domain straight after load of reddit.com and when interacting with posts. I'm concerned such a high value XSS would be being used for something more serious than spam ad clicks

Reddit security team are aware

(I will avoid linking to relevant reddit posts for obvious reasons but you can find them on my account /u/haxiomic)
I'm not sure if anything in the article suggested it was only for blood-borne disease.

It appears to boost the immune system, and the blood carries the immune system to every part of the body, including the lungs.
Here’s how I see this going (obviously just a guess): the entire corporate financial system is now unprofitable without being bailed out with zero interest loans every 10 years. This time around, the recovery will be slow, 10 years, then another, bigger bubble will form, that will pop and get bailed out again, but the next time around it will cause fast rising inflation. The fed will have to choose between either allowing hyperinflation to happen, which will crash the dollar, or saving the dollar by jacking up interest rates but allowing a second Great Depression to occur. I think they’ll choose the latter. At that point, the right wing, funded by the desperate corporate state which needs to stem the rising tide of labor activism, will blame coastal elite liberals and immigrants for their problems and there will be some kind of fascist coup, followed potentially by war, (but probably not). This will be right at the same time as lots of mass movement of people due to climate change is happening. If a war does happen it will be because of tensions caused by people flooding across various borders. I cannot see any further ahead than that.
The renderer and tooling were heavily overhauled, though it's hard to say if that's a "Source 2" thing. Engines are worked on constantly, systems are constantly being modified and features are added. Deciding to add a 2 at the end is mostly a marketing decision, since gamers fall for that hard.

I worked on an engine that, despite multiple huge overhauls and tech improvements motivated by our games, people suggested it was "the same buggy engine" as the first game we released since we didn't change the name for our in house toolset.
There are some bayesian tripwires in that analysis, though I think the data is good and it fits roughly with my intuition that bulk of covid deaths are in the "basically healthy and will live for many years" population.

The fact that a large-ish fraction of the entrants to the care homes die soon means that the people who don't die soon are going to be over-represented in the population. So if you pick a bunch of people from these homes at random, you probably (depending on the total population and total number of such deaths, which isn't cited) don't find people at the edge of death.

So I buy the upper bound, but think the actual number is likely to be much lower.

Stated more intuitively: there just aren't that many people "within months of death" at any time, and there are a lot of people dying to covid.
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Reporters have politicized everything about this and the virus. To anyone paying attention these sort of little attacks on Trump over things he didn't say kill all credibility.

How could anyone trust abc now? Either they're partisan hacks or their reporter is too stupid to be in his job. Either way their credibility is zero
> The problem with that is that some ovens will lock the door...

"I clipped off the lock using garden shears"
You probably already know that, but sometimes it helps to hear it again:

The world is a competitive place, and a lot of success factors are outside of your control. (timing, pre-existing resources, sheer luck)

What you can control is exactly what you are already doing: Work really hard and make the best of what you have. Come up with a good long term plan and execute it. Do life decisions that help with that plan.

This will make you more successful than your relative peer group and over time wash you into an upper percentile compared to others dealing with the same factors.

Keep up the good work! It's a long game.
One I didn't see on here—probably because they're not particularly well known—is the custom engine built by Coilworks for their game, Cloudbuilt[1].

I find this super impressive, because (A) Coilworks was tiny, and (B) Cloudbuilt is a fully 3D, polygonal game.

While the simple graphics likely help, Super Cloudbuilt performs well, with great frame pacing and minimal input latency—not something I can say about a lot of more mainstream games on traditional engines. And Super Cloudbuilt is a lot of fun!

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[1] https://www.double11.com/games/supercloudbuilt/
Mate is moving in this direction too via Mir, I have no idea where they are though.
Re: #1, I would love a modern car that looks like a 1937 Packard 120C: https://i.imgur.com/i6HxWbm.jpg

This is just wishful thinking, but electric cars might be the way forward in making that happen. Customizable top shell, standardized bottom skate. Design and order your own.
Then housing prices would fall to prices in which people can secure a loan and then stabilize around that.
I worked on a multiplayer version of the puzzle card game Set recently with a friend. It uses socket.io to communicate and Svelte for the front end. It’s a lot of fun to play with friends or alone: https://isaset.com/
https://github.com/kislyuk/tweak
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I also don't think this approach would be helpful, but regarding these points.

1. Photopheresis units already exist but would require some modification for whole blood irradiation rather than wbc only.

2. There are (a limited number of) nurses

3. Catheters are routinely placed

4. Most photopheresis units don't have 1:1 staff, but for ICU patients the situation may be different
I am not sure why you (and every other person that replied) assumes that I am suggesting an in-house solution when I explicitly wrote "freedom to choose between vendors".

> Because you might have to pivot away because it might not support your requirements in the future? Then just pay that cost in the future if it ever comes.

That's pretty much the textbook definition of debt.
Will sunbathing or going in a tanning machine incur the same benefit?
https://archive.vn/1AkIl
Doesn't even request the camera permission.

Console says:

uncaught exception: Object

Error: The video element has not loaded data yet. Please wait for `loadeddata` event on the <video> element. 34 tfjs-core:17:526700

Source map error: Error: request failed with status 404
Resource URL: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tensorflow/tfjs-core
Source Map URL: tf-core.min.js.map

Error: The video element has not loaded data yet. Please wait for `loadeddata` event on the <video> element. 136 tfjs-core:17:526700
More like dialysis I think?