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> But I'm always worried about those situations where you dont know what you dont know. This might sound strange, but would anyone recommend any reading material or blogs for someone at my level?

It's not very clear what you are asking, neither what's your background. In your situation I wouldn't spend more time learning stuff about JavaScript, I would just improve my skills in software engineering (design patterns, code quality, refactoring, etc) and diversify my knowledge (learn other languages (python, go, or some FP language to learn something really different); databases and SQL; web servers and REST; etc).
The "at risk" groups include a sizable percent of the US population, and isolating all of their first degree daily contacts alone is likely impossible.

Hospice patients, and the hospice workers.

People already in treatment, and the healthcare professionals providing them with care.

People who smoke, have diabetes, a heart condition, or are immune compromised, and so on, and everyone they know.

This has got to be millions and millions of people, and this isolation will be extraordinarily porous. Those folks have friends and family too, they will slip up, exposing their contacts and then the virus is on the other side of a firewall. And we've seen how quickly the virus spreads in isolated groups!
Yeah. The sciences and engineering and peoples' lives are this richly and tightly interwoven tapestry... and we make almost no effort to teach it. :/

It's hard to find hope for the near term. XR might contribute some market disruption, perhaps permitting better content to slip in. But the default seems "the usual wretchedness, now in XR!" Further, the bottleneck is as much science side as education side, and there's little recognition or effort to address that. On the other hand, when researchers have an opportunity to directly contribute to creating good XR science content, it can be a challenge to get them to leave. ;) So transformative improvement seems perhaps possible, but the effort would have an odd shape, and I've not seen much work in that direction. One upbeat story might be that the bulk of education in China is so very bad, that if something good is ever created, that large delta might energize rapid mass deployment. Maybe. Sigh.
if you can't find something you didn't already know in the free book series "you don't know javascript" then I'd imagine you might not have any gaps in your knowledge. (at least for 99% of it)

(you can buy a hard copy of it if you want but it's open source)

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/1st-ed/READM...
Well obviously nothing is impossible, but this sorta work is about as close to literally rocket surgery as you can get. Software: difficult, hardware: difficult, thousands of dollars of specialist equipment, and the steady hands of a surgeon. There's a difference between possible and "possible".

also there's a difference between devising a technique for a model, and doing a repair on this specific device. To get to a working technique you probably need to brick a lot of machines.
>> The view of advertising as fundamentally manipulative succumbed in the 1970s to the view that prevails today: that advertising does no more than convey useful product information to consumers.

There is a line by Jude Law in 'The New Pope' about harvard being ossified and in decline. The above line is exactly that. They are working on a dated understanding of advertising. Advertising today includes a vast array of activities. The above statement only applies to old fashioned billboard-type ads, which are basically meaningless in the modern context. Those online reviews that are making "ads" less influential? Those ARE modern advertisement. They are purchased. That great review on YouTube, also purchased. Those white ear bud designed to be seen across a busy street? Part of an advertising campaign. That music crafted to be that little bit louder when played. Advertising.

>>Persuasive advertising should be subject to per se condemnation because advertising is, like price fixing, harmful to consumers in all cases, requiring no case-specific inquiry to determine net effects. Persuasive advertising makes consumers willing to pay more for the advertised product for reasons that, because of the principle of innovation primacy, must be assumed to involve no gain in consumer welfare.

Lol. That is the entire fashion industry. Fashion advertising is about adding perceived value to otherwise identical products. "Consumer welfare" is also an outdated concept. Anti-features are deliberately engineered to weaken products. The goal of a producer is not to increase 'consumer welfare'. It is to SELL product. If that means damaging the consumer with a product designed to fall apart, then so be it. The advertising is there to convince the consumer to re-purchase the nearly identical product by attaching perceived value. Modern advertising even convinces consumers to throw away perfectly functional products by creating false perceptions of inadequacy or danger. The above line in effect condemns modern consumerism. Good luck with that fight.
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A suggested rephrasing:

"We must learn to welcome whatever comes to us and trust that we will be able to make the most of it."
Former Boeing flight controls engineer here. Nice to see a stress guy!

I'm always amazed that for a few hundred bucks I can fly halfway around the world in a jetliner. Anyhow, you might be amused by this incident between me and the stress guy, when I was called over to visit them:

SG: We're concerned about the parts you're designing.

WB: Um, yes?

SG: Your parts are coming in at barely 1% stronger than the Ultimate Load.

WB: So they meet the requirement. What's the problem?

SG: How did you design them?

WB: I started with the load requirement, worked backwards to size the part, and rounded up the tolerances.

SG: We don't like that. We like to see 10% over.

WB: So, you want the parts to be overweight?

SG: No, we just feel better about stronger parts.

WB: But my parts meet the requirements at minimum weight. If you'd like stronger, heavier parts, you guys need to change the requirements.

SG: !@#$%^&*(

Hope you guys aren't still mad at me :-)
There's never enough resources.
If you'd like to see a rat (as in rats), go to one of the city parks on trash day. The cans get emptied 24-48 hours before the trucks pick them up. Go there in the evening and sit maybe 30 meters from the trash heap. Watch carefully. Extra credit: Toss them french fries.

If you're up for a more disturbing experience, go sit on those benches at the south end of Riverside Park--the ones next to the ivy or whatever. Listen for the squeaking. Guess what? Those are rats. Lots and lots of rats, like in Jurassic Park or something.
Apologies for my directness, but no way around it: this is completely unhinged.

Humanity has dealt with double-digit-fatal diseases, several of them, for centuries. SARS2 is an ugly bug, but hardly an existential threat to the species.
Yeah, I think the variation there doesn't amount to different strains even, at least not in the sense that people tend to mean it.
Logrolling
Pastebin of the text: https://pastebin.com/pcaH0Z8H

The full text is worth reading.
Yes. I 100% agree with you. For whatever reason most people almost alway look elsewhere for the thing while it’s right in front of them.
Unless Asian countries are erring on the extreme side of caution it seems wise to assume test+tracing is not sufficient for R0<1. Their effective responses all employ techno-authoritarian interventions: wrist bracelets, GPS tracking, publicly releasing travel routes, QR health codes, out of home quarantine etc. This includes democratic countries. There's an ongoing myopia in the west that is failing to fully interrogate the solutions from Asian countries who are doing well in it's full scope and ramifications on liberty and applicability based on appetite for sacrificing liberty. Media is happy to elevate testing and contact tracing, without acknowledging the authoritarian followup.

E: I'm just suggesting it's worth discussing the system in aggregate rather than piecemeal.
Check in what? If dev refuses to write it PM has nothing to check in.
It's not nonsense, but it is a bit of a footgun if you put it into production.

Order by 2 is the kind of thing I use all the time in investigations and POCs, but if you put it into prod, you have to account for someone else updating the select and getting things out of order.
I haven't used a Mac so I don't know what UX breakthroughs I might be missing but I think even for beginners, apt and the like are fine, given how much assistance software and online help there is for them.

It does take you a while to understand everything about it but that's always the case with power tools. You'll likely not need to dive into the guts of your package manager on day one anyways.
I don't know if those features are actually not implemented in FreeBSD FF, but the game runs OK on Linux FF, so there's a chance you just have those features disabled rather than not being implemented.
I found these in the docs which are verbose and helpful:

https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/blob/master/docs/manual...

https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/blob/master/docs/manual...
Keep 6' or an Osman apart please.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/27/reg_standards_sovie...
Of course people only want speech protection for taboo topics, when else would they need protection?

It's easy to prove that taboo topics need to be allowed: it's taboo today to express the usual 2004 opinion on homosexuality, and it was taboo in 2004 to express today's usual opinion on the same topic. So no matter what your beliefs are you have to admit that you, personally, either need or needed cover for having taboo opinions.

No, of course I can't defend any individual taboo, I'm part of the group of normals that enforce them in polite society. However I have no choice to concede that out of the long list of 2020 taboos, one might be wrong.
What's the point of winning elections just to enact your opposition's policies?
I tried to select classes that would give me the most flexibility so I could pivot as needed. Though one of the most fun classes was Jet Engine Cycle Analysis. I finally learned how they really work, other than that hand-wavy nonsense that was ultimately unsatisfying. Got a job offer from Pratt&Whitney and almost took it.
> while I get it that light is both a wave and a particle, but I have no clue what that means.

Because it's wrong. It's a quantum of the electromagnetic field. It's neither a wave nor a particle. It just happens to have some properties of both.
There isn't really any math involved. It's just a lot of edge cases written out in lots of detail.

I think a lot of what makes SQL hard to implement comes down to consistently prioritizing local convenience over global complexity, combined with not being able to break backwards compatibility to simplify the design.
What are some difficult conversations you had to have with your manager/peer?
It’s an interesting argument but it’s tautological. Advertising features (or branding) is a form of disseminating information. If it’s true that consumers know everything about every single product, then advertising would cease to exist. You simply can’t say that every single business in the world is in efficiently spending ad dollars right now.

Consumers especially don’t have access to all product information. You literally can not compare a good chunk of products because I do is gated or not shared on purpose.

- I’ve only read the abstract so far, will edit if skimming other sections provides answers.
I understand that people with a data cap of a few GB and no Wi-Fi could end up being unable to download the tokens before the end of the month. For example a friend of mine stopped showing up in video calls with a group of friends because she's saving her GBs for the video calls she has to do for work. She should be spending a few Euros more per month but it's easy to wish with the money of other people.
Imagine the hands on an analog clock. As the hands rotate, there is an invariant -- the length of the hand. We are completely unsurprised that as a hand on the clock rotates and becomes less horizontal, it must become more vertical. It can't both increase its "verticality" and its "horizontality".

Now imagine horizontal as space, and vertical as time. In this case a 2D spacetime, but we can't really visualize 4D.

The reason they always talk about space-time in relativity is that you can't separate the two. If you want to travel faster through time, you have to travel slower through space. If you want to travel faster through space, you have to travel slower through time. There's an invariant like the length of that rotating clock arm called the "spacetime interval" that remains constant under the transformations that you have to do to go from one observer's perspective to another observer's perspective.

Problem is its in 4D so it's hard to visualize. There is a mathematical framework that can explain all of the transformations leading to length-contraction and time-dilation as simple rotations in a 4D spacetime (3 space + 1 time). It requires a bit more math, but then unifies things in a conceptually simple way.

But maybe just remember:
"If you go faster through space, you go slower through time"
"If you go faster through time, you go slower through space"

Your maximum speed in space is the speed of light, at which others will observe you as having no time passing.

Your maximum speed through time is one second per second, at which others will observe you as being stationary relative to them.
Look up Alex Fluornoy's youtube video lectures. I'll edit this and link the specific one here later, if I can find it.
AGPL-v3 isn't going to protect you from cloud vendors, they will just release the source and beat you with their marketing budget. Or they will just re-implement your APIs/interfaces from scratch and still win.
Well... yea, but there are some pictures in there and maybe it’s double spaced! /s
Unsolicited advice on CS independent work (2013)
In this app, it appears we are operationally limited to

/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/49F47295-F9D8-4FD7-8F34-redactedxxxx/

The default folder is /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/49F47295-F9D8-4FD7-8F34-redactedxxxx/Documents

I am able to cd / and can see the following folders

/Applications

/bin

/cores

/dev

/Developer

/etc

/Library

/private

/sbin

/System

/tmp

/usr

/var

... but can't cd into any of them. "permission denied".

None of this is a surprise, of course.
You mean dark matter annihilation? There are some hints: an excess of gamma rays detected by Fermi-LAT, an excess of X-rays detected by Chandra, excess ionization detected by EDGES, and excess positrons detected by AMS-02. However, all of these anomalies are contentious and could well be explained by systematic effects or unknown astrophysical sources.

If none of these hold up, it could be that dark matter just doesn't annihilate. That's not weird or anything -- I mean, your room is full of matter right now, and it's not annihilating itself either.
So generators are used here because of the natural way of calling “next” and yielding a result.

How would this work for say, an XMLHttpRequest? Since you have to next into callbacks there I don’t think yield travels the function boundary...so you abuse next instead?
Apparently IBM tested a system where participants faces were projected onto dummies faces in a real room, voice related through speakers on each dummy, then the whole thing recorded and broadcast to participants.
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> suppression of COVID.

Exactly suppression, not prevention. If you're immunocompromised, old or in a risk group, which most americans are, you're s* out of luck, even with the app, you can't really go outside.

People thinking contact tracing is the silver bullet are just delusional or outright dangerous. Especially if those people also think contact tracing can't be done privacy-friendly.
I use GitHub Pages and a static site generator like Hugo. It's a little more code, but this is Hacker News.
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> What interesting controversial content are they banning specifically?

They ban interesting content all the time - a very recent example is they banned the AYTU Bioscience page where they talk about an experimental covid treatment.

YouTube censored their videos as well.
Can someone explain how the game is played? I select a team, I commit a direction in my act file and the game picks it up. But then what? In the players file there is x and y. How does it relate to the map? How can I find where I am on the map? How does the coloring happen?

Edit: Understood. It is like snake. What happens when you crash on the wall though?
That is fair. Good perspective check.
One party is fixated on voter id fraud and ignores the cyber security, the other party i fixated on cyber security and ignores voter id fraud.
Both are significant issues which we should be addressing. An accurate election results should be in everyone's interest.
What do you mean post COVID world?
Big IF we ever reach those numbers at all. (!)
marked this,thx, btw, I always want to choose head first series to be my 1st book, what do ya think compare with eloquent JS for absolute beginner?
Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as Covid-19, on ventilators
The chapters from 13 on are great for anyone as an intro to how JS interacts with the browser.

I agree with the other commenters that the early chapters would probably move a little slow for an experience programmer, though it is beautifully written and the interactive snippets are great, so you might still enjoy it if you don't mind skimming. Or if you know some languages but only have a few years of experience I would say beginner intros to new languages are still good. Eloquent JavaScript is a really nice overview of clean programming style in JS as well as the language itself.
> I’m disagreeing that at this moment - and with statistics like excess mortality in NYC, there is very good reason to believe that upward and downward pressure are not equally likely.

I would kinda agree, but for different reasons. I’ve seen the inner workings over several government agencies during this crisis, including a few police departments. What has been obvious to me is that there is a very significant difference from place to place in how death and infection statistics are recorded. My observation has been that people who have an obvious political incentive to record lower numbers usually find a way to do it, and vice versa for people who have an obvious political incentive to record higher numbers. I would agree because across the world, there seems to be greater political incentive to have lower numbers.

Everything you’re speculating about is plausible, and may turn out to be mostly correct. But there is no reasonable basis for the certainty you claim to have. Especially in regards to claims such as there being no potential for factors other than Covid deaths to have a statistically significant influence on overall mortality rates. That’s just your opinion, and it’s a reasonable on to have, but it’s definitely not “almost certainly” true.
Man, some people really think they're entitled to dictate how the world must be.

The argument that easy access to product information online eliminates any consumer benefit of advertising misses a key point.

I only do research online for products that I care deeply about.

I am never going to bother to seek out information online to figure out what kind of laundry detergent to buy. It's just way, way down on my priority list. So I'm perfectly happy to passively consume the advertising and let that shape my decisions, for the 20 seconds of thought I give this topic as I walk through that aisle in the grocery store.

What information does advertising convey to me, as a rational consumer?

1) How successful the company is [inferred from how much money they seem to be spending on advertising].

2) What characteristics they think matter the most - price? Stain removal? Efficiency? Sometimes a company will emphasize something I don't care about - which lets me know I'm probably not the target market for their product, and I should look elsewhere.

3) Whether they have any new products I haven't tried.

I once tried a detergent brand I had never heard of - Persil - because I saw a TV ad for it. Probably somewhere out there there's a laundry detergent enthusiast forum that already knew about it, and they have strong opinions about Persil, and debate whether it was reformulated in 2016, or whether's it's really the same in the US vs. Germany. I don't know, because I don't care! But I liked the smell and I'd buy it again.

Conversely, advertising for cars is totally ineffective on me, because I'm a car nut and I know about every model coming out 2 years before they would ever be advertised in any medium. But, there are plenty of people in the world who think about cars in the same way I think about laundry detergent - and might go to the Honda dealer and check out a minivan because of the ad they saw that showed it had a built-in vacuum cleaner in the trunk.

I've mentioned on HN before that I bought a Casper mattress largely because of the incessant ads for it on my favorite podcasts, which I heard long before I actually needed one. Without those ads, when the time came, I probably would've just driven to the mattress store and tried out what they had in stock. It never would've occurred to me to search the web to see if someone had revolutionized the mattress business - this was a chore, I wanted it over as soon as possible, and I didn't want to spend my mental energy doing research on fucking mattresses.

But because of the ads, I knew that there was an established company that had come up with what they claimed was a better product in this space. I checked out a few reviews to make sure people actually liked the mattress - then I ordered one, it showed up in 3 days, and I love it! Thanks, advertising.
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The state has scholarships funded from offshore oil royalty trust funds for grad students. I don’t have a problem with that. I have a problem with Patrick Taylor subsidizing the middle class rather than the poor.
Eddy currents. Why does a magnet move slowly down a copper tube?
I can recommend _The Happiness Hypothesis - Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom_, by Jonathan Haidt, as relevant here.

The book was suggested to me by a CBT practitioner. It languished on my shelf for several years because it sat adjacent to a bit of new age fluff, and I thought the subtitle sounded like it was another bunch of lost-wisdom-of-the-ancients drivel. I thought wrong: one should not judge a book by its cover.

The book is serious -- Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU Stern School -- yet eminently readable. It pulls in relevant aspects of the "ancient wisdom," evaluates them in the context of contemporary research, and shows where they can help us today and where they are outright plain wrong.

I can't say it has changed my life yet, but it has helped settle the inchoate bits that I have taken from the Enchiridon, Meditations, etc., into a useful way of thinking about the world and my place in it.

Now on to William Braxton Irvine...
I hate to defend Amazon, but it seems that they do contribute back to open source:

https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/

For example running `git shortlog -ne` in the Linux kernel git repository will show a number of Amazon folks with many commits to their name.