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> An adverse effect of ionizing radiation is that it could cause a mutation that replicates - cancer. It's therefore intrinsically probabilistic.

This statement betrays a very naive understanding of cancer and complete ignorance of DNA repair pathways. Don't take it personally - nobody understands cancer completely. However, we know that a single mutation will not cause cancer. Cells have "defense in depth" against adverse mutations. There are multiple repair mechanisms, DNA exists in four copies usable for reconstruction, and there are crowbar mechanisms that kill a cell when it detects damage, and there is an immune system which can kill rogue cells. Therefore, to cause cancer, a number of mutations is needed (probably around ten). Clearly, the risk of cancer isn't linear in the dose, it grows approximately with the tenth power.

There are other mechanism absent from your naive view. Ionizing radiation typically doesn't damage DNA directly (alpha radiation can cause double strand breaks, but beta and gamma don't). Rather, it creates reactive oxygen radicals which can oxidize DNA, causing miscoding lesions. (These are repairable, to some extent.) But cells contain compounds that scavenge such radicals (the most important one is glutathione). If glutathione has be exhausted before oxidative damage occurs, that creates a threshold effect.

So response to ionizing radiation is likely nonlinear and has a threshold. LNT is twice wrong.

> Your distinction between the words "model" and "assumption" is moot by the way.

Then I will make it more clear. A model is something that is tested and discarded if it turns out to be no good. An assumption is something that is kept despite failing the tests. LNT was based on nothing (Herman Muller made it up, claiming knowledge about how DNA is affected; and that was before the structure of DNA, let alone the existence of DNA repair was known), which may be forgivable. But it should have been discarded after its predictions didn't match the reality of the Nuclear Navy dock workers study, or the Taiwanese radioactive high rise buildings, or how low dose full body irradiation suppresses cancer instead of causing it.

I shouldn't have said assumption. Let's be honest and call it a dogma.
It's definitely still true, but the difference is getting smaller as sensor tech improves. My DSLR is a Nikon D80 from 2006. While it's not full-frame, its sensor is much bigger than the one on my iPhone 8, yet my phone works far better in low-light conditions. The highest non-expanded sensitivity on the D80 is ISO 1600, which is already very grainy. Bump that up to the highest possible ISO 3200 and you're in for a lot of touch-up work.
Great point. Very simple explanation.
Me too I realized that criticism towards AWS brings downvotes on HN. A bit strange because it's usually the opposite online. Maybe a lot of HN readers are working for AWS.
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That'd be pretty fun to make assuming they could bankroll it.
and when you are trough with these, the original deus ex is still an awesome game.

The main thing that got very old between the game release and nowadays is that conspiracy theory were a joke in 2000, but twenty years later they are taken very seriously by way too many people, including the current US president.

Also, this kind of game is often called "immersive sim", it has seen a mini resurgence in the last years.

Breath of the wild fits in that genre as well, so does MGS5 or Rimworld. They are all very different from Deus Ex, so it really depends on what you liked in that game.
It's what a certain kind of live migration strategy does. There's a discussion thread about this further down where I link to that same page.
>USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia. These are all successful left-authoritarian power consolidations from the 20th century.
> Other than the WW2 Axis powers, there aren't many major successful right-authoritarian consolidations from last century.

Can you see how you hand-waved the other side away here?

>Many parts of the right are fundamentally opposed to government power, which makes creating a united right-wing front to consolidate totalitarian power really difficult.

Is Trump not considered right-wing? Didn't he recently state that he has ultimate power? Isn't he the one joking about removing term limits, and isn't it the people on the right meming about a Trump dynasty?

> Unlike the American left, which works practically in lock-step, the right is a fractured, fractious mess that can hardly agree on anything, except maybe that the other side is bad sometimes.

I have a 180 degree opposite viewpoint. The left seems to champion smaller clustered causes. The right is unified under a delusion of freedom, controlling women's bodies, and... guns maybe? Saying things to piss off the other side?
It used to pay lip service to being a moral bastion, but lost that argument.

> Even when the Republicans controlled all branches of government from 2016-2018, they couldn't accomplish anything, because unlike in the Democratic party, there's just no unity.

What they accomplished was a restructuring of tax systems to increase the wealth concentration of the richest Americans, at the expense of the entire country.

From there, your comment devolves into repeating talking points without any supporting evidence. They are so removed from my perception of reality, that I'm too tired to even respond to your vague and unsupported thoughts.
But some people actually DID ask that the tax code be thousands of pages. For one, tax preparation firms. For another, anti-tax advocates. Both of them advance their goals directly as a result of the complexity of the tax code, regardless of the underlying rules.

(Anti-tax advocates would prefer taxes not to exist. But they want taxes that do exist to be painful, as a tactic to increase anti-tax sentiment.)
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> certainly not a universal ideal.

But neither is a blog or reddit post.

I've written two books and read countless others and I strongly believe that books are a much better shape for doing comprehensive justice to a topic.

I've learned a ton from blogs and random articles, of course, but there is nothing quite like the in-depth knowledge you get when a single author has chosen to organize and write an entire book.
sure is.. but somehow biology manages it with few issues. It seems like it has a lot to do with the presence of chaperone proteins that babysit the protein as it's coming off the ribosome, preventing pieces of it from sticking together that shouldn't touch, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein#/media/File:Chaperonin...

I'm working on making a model of this chaperone complex relative to a folded protein to get a sense of how it might be interacting with the amino acid chain before it becomes globular
From every $10 you spent in a supermarket, the farmer gets $1.20. The rest is transportation, distribution, and retail.

While producers (and supply-side aggregators like USDA) currently have excess food they can't sell and might therefore be willing to give away for free, this would only reduce the retail price to $8.80 in this example.

Intuitively, I'd think it would maybe be possible to run a truck of potatoes to some larger city for less than that. But remember that the food distribution chain is among the most streamlined and efficient structures capitalism has produced. Some overhead might fall away if you don't charge for the food, but you'd still need to do whatever processing and safety measures it involves, and giving stuff away for free doesn't mean dumping it in a parking lot.
I dont mind if it does. There are plenty of people who prefer to work from home and are more productive in doing so. I'm certainly not one of them. Just like you, I prefer the mental divide.

As for you coworkers, I would simply set fixed working hours, like in the office, and put that into calendar, skype, teams, what have you and close everything else. Thats when you stop work and are not reachable anymore.

I had the same issue as you. Got called at 8pm about a project on my private number (massive mistake handing that out to someone work related). Told them I'm not working right now, reach me under my work phone from 9-5 and call back then. Don't even allow for discussion.
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not quite that repo is a mix of https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/license... and apache 2.0 .. the elastic license stuff is in a particular sub directory, but there's so many intermingled commits, a contributor can't look at git history without becoming tainted. Which then leads to elastic suing folks building on their opensource..
https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users

https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users-includin...
Non-interactive zero knowledge proofs.

ZK proofs have a number of good explainers, mostly using graph colorings. Non-interactive versions, however, require quite a bit more than that explanation allows - and despite asking experts, I still haven't found a good, basic explanation.
Germany better fixes their insane taxation policy on home office matters. It was improved a bit a few years back but it's still a mess.

A few years ago you needed to have a separate room (with a door!) without any personal items in it to be considered a home office for tax reasons. Even a second chair was reason enough to make your tax report invalid (or fraud, depending on the policy of the local tax office).

Nowadays it's gotten a bit better as a corner of the room can be considered an office but there are still size restrictions and the computer can only be used exclusively for work. It's still a mess that you have to fight your communal tax office for and in the end comes down to the fact that the person responsible to check your report has to believe you and it's way to easy for them to say no.
I think they announce in advance they will short and publish report on a unspecified company.

In this case they just mentioned the Company is listed in LSE, and the traders figured out by themselves who was it.

Because they need to build their short positions before making everything public.

In this case maybe they lost profits if the market adjusted before they finish setting up their positions
I’d love to see more open source hardware as the next wave. The ardiuno seems like it’s a success.
Totally agree with pretty much all of this; I'm just arguing that "don't subsidize, ever" is a very extreme vision of capitalism, and doing a one year or less intervention is nowhere close to throwing away the whole system (which GP is implying very clearly elsewhere in the thread, and to be fair I probably should have responded to those specific comments instead of this one).

I agree that when and how we intervene is important to discuss, it's just important to argue the details, not "but muh capitalism" as a way to argue against every government action ever.
Credit Stacks (https://www.creditstacks.com/) came to my rescue and I have been using their card since two years.
I thought UChicago had that laurel
Hmm, good point. We've put weak preconditions in the title above.
I'm exactly the same but I find myself hoping WFH does become the new norm, because I relish the idea of working in a relatively empty and/or small office.
You must be referring to the "love-hate" relationship between Amazon and open source software as described eg here?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-and-commercial-open-sou...

"Vendors developing those open source products started accusing AWS of strip mining, i.e., reaping the benefits of the products, without contributing back to their development."
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0.1 fatality rate. CNN is in big trouble. Only the whistle blowers over at CNN will avoid prison or death by mob.
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No need to gatekeep who can enjoy this forum. I think it’s valuable feedback to know how VR technology is viewed by people of all backgrounds, not just hardcore tech enthusiasts.
The one-electron universe is always a personal favorite. Though more a far-fetched theory than a proper "scientific phenomena", I'd be eager to learn more about it in layman's terms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtW9MslFk
Can confirm. Here's a 20 minute exposure of Orion + moonlight over the Grand Muveran I shot in the village a couple of years ago: https://leejo.github.io/images/2018/large_format/36_muveran_... # this is shot on 4x5 film, and unfortunately Fuji don't make Acros in this size anymore (fortunately I stocked up on it).
It doesn't work for YouTube, at least on the mobile app. It's a bit hit or miss, for example it doesn't get rid of ads in Duolinguo, but it does stop the 30 second ones. On desktop you're better off using a plugin (I run both, but then you get leftover whitespace).
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These are good points, but one reason to use Ansible to configure NixOS is if you must continue using Ansible to configure other computers / cloud instances that are not running NixOS. It would be easier to adopt NixOS if you could do it incrementally rather than replacing everything.

I suppose one could use Nix to configure computers that are not running NixOS? Switching all of my Ansible playbooks to the Nix package manager is non-trivial, but perhaps less effort than changing every OS at the same time?

But can you use Nix to interact with the cloud? I currently use Ansible to spin up virtual servers on Linode using their web API, for example, and I expect to have to interact with AWS or Google Cloud in the near future.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8692627
Yeah, the original Deus Ex is still one of my all time favorites. It's a bit harder to go back to now, but it's still fun, especially if you use a few mods to modernize things. (I prefer the GMDX overhaul mod.)

It's amazing how much that game accurately predicted.
This is related to the idea of the memristor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Yes but those changes are going to be trivial compared to the arms race dynamic I described. The changes from political pressure are debated in one place, yearly by a small number of people, but the growth of anti-gaming regs are a defense against the innovations of 300 million filers.
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my first step for now is to ask questions about it, why do they want it, what other cases are there etcetera.
When I read these threads I feel like I'm reading an ethnography of life on another planet.

I did an IB magnet program in high school, graduating ~2008, and I don't know anyone from even that self-selected sample of people who went to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, etc. One girl went to MIT.

The overwhelming majority of these people, who again, were a much brighter sample than the average teenager, ended up at either the U. of A. or ASU (A=Arizona).
You could also say they gave equal weight to the lower number 31.

Some of those HBO folks realize the same sort of biases for overreporting also apply to people in positions of power, who will do anything to control the narrative. In some countries they just kill the journalists (a different sort of fallout that is also not directly attributed to radiation)
I feel like I’m getting panic fatigue at this point.
> Truly, a selfless, zero-self-promotion genius.

Impressive bot. I wonder who programmed it.
VR for long periods gives me headaches, so I can only use the headset for about an hour.
>>Why is this on the first page of HN?

Because audience of Hacker News forums found it interesting and upvoted it.

Why did people upvote it? I imagine because rather than just being a link to a downloadable mod, it is a thorough diary/article on how a person researched, developed and implemented the hack. Precisely the kind of article HN tends to enjoy - regardless of exact subject: restoring old Xerox machines, creating a LEGO robot, etc.

Rather than just colour shading, I think it's also fascinating they decided to remove / modify the bloom - one of the defining characteristics of DX:HR for many people.
Yep,

That's the job, it's a huge job taken a whole and to do that job, a variety of systems have arisen; object orientation, functional programming, agile process, etc, etc. All of these tools for helping to decrease complexity. And professions are generally studying at least some of these to "up their chops", so to speak.

The thing is, I think the GP was responding to the OP's headline "customers do not ask for software complexity". And the thing is, of course customers ask for a variety things that imply complexity. And, unlike what the OP's discussion, the particular soft approaches that been partly, however much, successful in preventing customer demands from spiraling into unmanageable complex have been ways of dealing with discreet, defined, parts of the development process. The problem with the OP, the article, is that it's a panacea, a vague and general call to make complexity unnecessary with either only a vague explanation of how to do this or an explanation hidden under several layers of rhetoric. "But designing simple software solutions is not simple and requires good principles along with solid experience." I could substitute "supply chains" or "aerospace solutions" and have something plausible sound though I know little about these. Which is to say I don't see OP offering things to make my job (or my former job) easier.
My mum lived in that area until a few years ago. Definitely worth a visit, yes!

The road you speak of got closed, and totally removed, some years back [1].

Only the bluestones are believed to come from hundreds of miles away, the sandstone is believed to have been sourced more locally — still an impressive feat: but the bluestones are the smaller stones in the assembly, being less than 1/10th of the weight of the stones that the trilithons are comprised of.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-23026522
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I have no sympathy for that view. I work for a large bank where getting anyone to write any line of code, even for non critical infrastructure, requires a huge amount of energy, frustration, and with anaemic results. Trivial things are overengineered to an absurd level. I estimate that it must take 3 hours of discussions, reports, chasing, conference calls for every minute of code written. And at the same time, while IT cannot deliver even the most trivial changes, they are trying to do everything they can to reduce the productivity of end users to a halt, preventing them from writing any line of code, using any sophisticated tool, locking down the platform, and basically perpetuating copy-pasting, email based processes forever.

There is code that I literally prototyped myself in a week and that I am told would take years to rewrite by IT.
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It's funny how "party loyalty" is always defined as fealty to Labour's liberal rightist faction. Given that they were actively undermining him, they weren't entitled to his loyalty at any rate.

Corbyn was trying to make Labour into something better, just as Bernie Sanders was trying to do the same with the Democratic Party in the US. This is always mischaracterized by tribalist partisans and sycophants as "party disloyalty."
from the article :

To calculate excess deaths, the FT has compared deaths from _all causes_ in the weeks of a location’s outbreak in March and April 2020 to the average for the same period between 2015 and 2019.

so they are not counting only coronavirus related deaths but all
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It's certainly not the case that 100% of coronavirus victims were about to die anyway. But it seems very plausible that 10% were, and I think it's fair to consider that a significant overcount.
There's a big market for Office add-ins. API docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/outlook/...
If you don't mind me asking, what credit limit did you get approved for and what features do they offer?

I applied for a discover and was approved for only $500 :(
Quantum entanglement. How do they know it's happening?
I would call that “good agile”, a case where it actually helps by breaking things down into smaller, fully complete, fully productionized pieces.
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Made an edit, sorry about that! Replied without clearing my head first. :-)
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Yeah.. I definitely feel you.. I almost settled for a secured card as well, not ideal at all
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> "a star tracker, a mount that precisely rotates your camera at the same rate as the Earth"

It's called an equatorial mount! GAH!

Incidentally that setup they post a picture of looks pretty sketchy, looks like the counterweight will bonk the table if you expose for too long and you also have to move the table rather than the mount to point in another azimuth.
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Most modern supermarket chains are organized in such a way that location data should be available (or at least calculable). To assert that there is no "system" to a store's layout and that employees know through "experience and gut-feeling" means that this retailer was not conforming to industry norms or was just not a very large retailer. All supermarkets have some sort of product taxonomy, categories and subcategories, that influence the macro-placement of a product within the store. This discipline is known as "space planning", where large categories are placed within the foot print of a store's layout. Within the category placement, stores use "planograms", which are shelf-by-shelf layouts of which products go where, how many facings they have, how much footage is designated to the sub-category, etc. While its true that workers for the most part know the locations of items by experience, this experience is informed by their ever growing knowledge/intuition of this taxonomy. (Usually, products are organized by aisle in the backroom when the delivery comes in; workers are simply taking groups of products that have already been organized out to the floor). The planograms themselves are usually stored in a database, and this data could be cross-referenced with other common data sources (product, pricing, etc.) to determine store location.
> It’s so bad, I would expect it only from right-wing disinformation efforts who are self-parodies of incorrectness.

That's not very helpful. It would be helful, if you explained how it is a bad analogy for ionizing radiation. (By the way, that wasn't even the point. I merely explained LNT in a context where everyone immediately recognizes it as ridiculously wrong.)

> do not try to impugn the model as stemming from idiots

I would never! The guy who came up with LNT ten years after the conclusion of the Manhattan project, Herman Muller, was not an idiot!

He was a fraud.
> A big part of going into an office is the mental context switch for me.

Perhaps homes should start including a personal office as a standard feature just like the kitchen and bathroom (which didn't always use to be a part of houses.)

This could eventually let us reclaim the space currently taken up by all the office towers, eliminating the upkeep of maintaining them, reduce daily traffic and the associated noise, pollution, stress, improving overall public health and leisure time, which in turn would improve the economy.

WFH becoming the norm is a win/win scenario, at the cost of a mere "mental context switch" for a while before civilization adapts, just like it did when the majority of humans started working inside buildings instead of farms and fields and so on. :)