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Agree Nix is actually very simple language and it being purely functional and lazily evaluated is what makes Nix packaging so powerful, these properties are actively utilized.

I think what the problem is is not the Nix language but its stdlib - nixpkgs. It is rapidly changing (as they figure out better ways of doing things) often breaks backward compatibility (for example not long ago they removed fetchGitPrivate and the built-in is not a drop in replacement), large parts of it aren't well documented, or even not at all (people often add great features, but forget to update manual and it still gets merged).

Initially this was the hardest part for me about Nix, and I guess it still is, but once I understood the structure of nixpkgs it no longer takes effort to find what I'm looking for (unfortunately many times I still have to look at the code, but now I can find it easily).

The thing is that this problem wouldn't been solved with different language like scheme or even Python. The language won't help much with learning the structure of nixpkgs and the conventions used. While Nix Pills cover some parts of it, there's so much more it could talk about.

BTW for those who are struggling with this. There is also very useful command to immediately find the derivation: nix edit <derivation> which should be emphasized more.
> we can just literally choose to not have this problem

how can people facing financial ruin right now choose not to have it?
The extra $600 being a flat country-wide amount was the mistake here: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/she-got-a-paycheck-protectio...
No, actually: because they started out as ad-only, then added paid subscriptions while still forcing their subscribers to watch ads, and that is when I decided it was not for me. Maybe they've been evolving in a more positive direction if there are only a few shows left with ads?
> Which also makes me question about the effectiveness of lockdowns.

Lockdowns are definitively, absolutely effective in curbing spread. It is backed by solid evidence of reduction is spread in places where lockdown was implemented, AND we have logical scientific reasoning to explain why. The only debatable aspect is whether they are the best solution, given all the trade-offs. And that is a difficult choice. But given no other solutions, if you can afford a lockdown, it is the right first step while you figure out other options.

Countries have been able to avoid a lockdown if they have sufficient quarantine facilities, contact tracing and hospital capacity. But in the absence of these, lockdown is the most effective way to navigate this.
> Although one nitpick with the article - tracking mounts do not follow the rotation of the Earth, they rotate in the opposite direction.

Maybe I missed something, but I don't see where the article contradicts what you wrote above. The one thing I did find seems correct (as it doesn't specify the direction):

"With film and these very long exposures, the Earth’s rotation is a big problem — you’ll end up with star trails (which is a fun type of photo to take). The solution to this problem is a star tracker, a mount that precisely rotates your camera at the same rate as the Earth (known as sidereal rate)."
The executive producer actually wrote a post after the episode in Season 2 as a bit of an explanation/apology for how it ended up that way, which I thought was a nice touch: http://www.danielabraham.com/2017/04/04/guest-post-losing-sc...
Some thoughts for how I approach structuring React applications. I'd love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hear how everyone else chooses to structure their applications!
Thanks appreciate the perspective. What kind of work did you do if you don’t mind saying?
Turns out feminists don't want the 'right' to be considered as expendable resources, so they conveniently pretend it doesn't exist.
I'm another native speaker who graduated high school more by dint of luck and pity than for any other reason, and then went to work instead of college. Between the context and the similarity with the adjective "subservient", "subserves" proved trivial to parse, and I haven't yet been able to come up with another expression of the same concept that is also as concise. In any case, it seems unlikely that educational attainment is all that useful an indicator here.

In general writing, your point has merit. In the title of an academic paper published in a journal of philosophy, I don't know that the strictures and desiderata of general writing wholly apply.
EDIT: Yes. Personally, I would not risk it if it lowers my chance of getting infected. The choice is up to you.

> These pathogens can be picked up by our hands and get into the body through mucous membranes on the face — eyes, nose, and mouth — that act as pathways to the throat and lungs.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/how-touching-your-face-c...
But in a public forum such as this, calling a community toxic can, and will, keep people from looking in to to the associated project any further. If you have specifics, you should say them - public spaces are the right place to out toxic communities. But, people on the internet throwing around words like "toxic" without substantiation can be really damaging to communities by preventing growth.

Please substantiate - I'm not involved in the Nix community much but whenever I've been in the #nixos IRC channel, they've been super helpful.
>You know we can just literally choose to not have this problem, instead of buying into other people's narratives.

Try saying this after a few months of lockdown, when a severely damaged economy leads to food shortages, and printing money does nothing to help.
I know of a young person who felt compelled to obtain a patent in high school as part of buffing their brand.

Do you need to do this? No. Is that the perception? In some places.
As someone without kids please keep your kids off of my property/etc. I know this will not be a popular thing to say but you have NO right to put the liability of someone getting hurt on my hands.

This isn't a knock on the kids, but much more the adult world in the US - lawsuits are real and I 100% would expect expensive legal issues if a kid got hurt on my property. Hiring a lawyer is incredibly expensive and the court system is literal hell.

So yeah - keep your kids off my lawn.
From looking at the current infection graphs Sweden is about to have a very bad time. When 99% of epidemiologists are saying one thing and you have to seek out a contrarion ask yourself if you're really being helpful or just trying to confirm your existing beliefs.
The government needs to be seen as doing something so it does something. Same reason why the TSA exists.

I find it odd that the Liberals are the ones who are falling for health theater after spending a decade talking about the idiocy of security theater.
I found it disproportionately mindblowing realizing omega and omicron are literally "big o" and "little o."
"Going forward, we will fund business ideas that: allow microphone access, allow camera access, allow location services, allow calendar access, allow..."

It's like webex - it turns on 24x7 microphone access "to detect nearby video devices"
BCG Against Coronavirus: Less Hype and More Evidence, Please
We are witnessing this since weeks at Odoo. (https://odoo.com)

Last month, we lost a big project against SAP (budget 5m€): the company choosed SAP because their holding was willing to pay for the project. Last week, the same prospect came back to Odoo: as the holding could not afford such a project anymore, the company has to pay from its own budget. So, they choose Odoo (<1m€ budget)

I believe the next wave is a replacement of proprietary expensive business applications: ERP, SAS, BI...
Numbers from: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-67XBXHYX7/
men: 11.74%, 298 subjects
women: 14.24%, 288 subjects

Statistical analysis from: https://www.socscistatistics.com/tests/ztest/default2.aspx

I don't believe the difference is significant at p<0.1 or any number below.
As Covid-19 drags on, 2020 tech spending now projected to fall 5%
Not everyone gets the flu every year.
> Could I have done all that in a single shell, then had it automatically cleaned up when I was done?

Yes, that is a pretty standard workflow for most nix users. You either set up a shell.nix for your project with all of its dependencies, or if you need a certain tool once you just write for example: ‘nix shell -p iotop’ to enter a shell where iotop is in the path.
> To be clear, you're saying fields are essentially virtual mathematical notions from which emerges actual stuff?

Perhaps, but I think that's a bit unfair. There's no dividing line between "mathematical notions" and "actual stuff". For example, when you poke a bowl of jello, it springs back, so it feels like "actual stuff". But in terms of the mathematics, it's because the configuration of fields that corresponds to compressed jello has a higher energy value than when uncompressed. In other words, while we don't assign intuitive properties like "solidity" and "elasticity" to fields, the relation between the fields and those properties in macroscopic objects is quite direct!

> How and where _do_ fields "exist"? Where are they in the standard model? Intuition says maybe they reside in spacetime near particles. I have a hunch from QFT that the fields are technically "everywhere" and are merely highly excited into particles when energy transforms the field in certain spots.

Indeed, they're technically "everywhere". You commonly hear that for the Higgs field, but it's true for all others as well, such as the electron field, whose excitations are electrons.
I have not read you but I believe you. I crave for good game journalism, insightful enough but not academic (because regretfully academics try to optimize different metrics).The closest example I have is some pieces during the early years of RockPaperShotgun, but that site jumped the shark eons ago.

Do you have any examples or recommendations?
> The man, who had had all the visitors, died.

I think that's just it. I'd add the word "family" in there, to make the connection stronger:

The man, who had had all the family visitors, died.
That was in 2006. They changed their policy and stopped multiplying small dose rates by large populations to get large numbers after that because the linear-no-threshold assumption has not been shown to be applicable at very low doses. Their later reports do not give any large numbers like this.
Interesting that the top comment is pure misinformation as explained by the 2nd and following comments.

Nice try government :)
The mayor (and other elected officials) definitely has some blood on his hands. Not saying he willfully was trying to harm anyone but his mistakes cost lives.
I tend to agree that Corbyn trying to straddle the Remain/Leave camps may have been a fatal error, but who knows whether he would have felt it necessary if he had not been kneecapped in 2017 and won the election. One also shouldn't dismiss the role of the UK press in amplifying "anti-Semitism" and various other smears (like the "tankie" used on this very thread) against Corbyn.
Wow. Just, wow.

Let me read what you said another way: “let’s tax old people”

Young people don’t have money compared to older people because old people have generally spent their lives saving it. So if you put that wealth tax in place, why the heck should any of them save.

What you suggest will lead to disaster. Getting old is not a lottery.
This isn't just playing around with abstract new things that we have no experience with in public health. The same situation is happening in Sweden's "experiment" as compared to other countries with similar health systems in Europe. Sweden is expected to have about 10,000 deaths and they should have about 2,000 deaths if their health system works about as well as Switzerland. See https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden. For reference Sweden has about 10 mil pop, Switzerland has 8.5 mil. Sweden is expected to kill about 8,000 people unnecessarily. We know this can happen because of experience with many previous epidemics.
This just seems like an ahistorical summary. Lots of people were following the science without requiring orders. Until mid-March, most American politicians were trying to get people to stop being cautious, because their caution was bad for business.
Arguing against the short term effectiveness of lockdowns is like arguing against physics. If on average the number of people a person come in contact with decreases, it will definitely decrease the infection rate.

The long term effect is arguable since we don't know if we can prevent the majority of people from getting infected.
I could not agree more. This hit me hard during the interviews on the Stanford campus that I mentioned. I see the embrace of PC culture amount the younger cohort a result of the intense status competition, the resultant shallowness and lack of meaning associated with accomplishments rewarded by gains to status and prestige (even when the accomplishment is real and beneficial), and a paucity of explanations for why the status problem exists beyond repackaged Marxism wrapped in relatively strange philosophical ideas from the 60s and 70s. It's easy to judge young people, so I force myself to feel a great deal of compassion for them.
As I've said before, I strongly suspect that when this is all over, there will be a heck of a lot of deviation in results that don't neatly align with a "stupid government" vs. "enlightened government" dichotomy. Although people will certainly try.

The Northeast US is, at least in parts, some of the worst in the world that is known about and, other than being pretty dense, it really doesn't map to especially poor government response by reasonable definitions. Perfect hindsight doesn't count.
> One of the E.I.S.’s core principles is that a pandemic is a communications emergency as much as a medical crisis.
Oh really? They can't?
It's actually suspected that the whole epidemic in Europe originated from the first confirmed infection in Germany.
A woman from Shanghai who had a business trip with her car manufacturer. That same manufacturer happens to have a factory in northern Italy.

Some Italian scientists did an RNA analysis on samples from infected people from Italy, and confirmed they descended from the first German case.

Basically, if this hypothesis is true then German quarantine and/or exposure tracking failed. Had they played it safe and properly quarantined the entire staff of the office building , Europe's coronavirus pandemic might have gone entirely differently.
Seems reminiscent of astronomy with less accurate measurements.
Wealth tax, so once someone is done paying ~40%+ of their income in taxes, between federal, state income, sales, vehicle and property tax, and after years or decades, they manage to build up $2M (which is just barely enough to retire on), you propose to double-dip and tax what they have left after feeding the government for decades? In my opinion that’s straight up immoral.
> Anyone who has lived in NYC [...] knows just how different it is.

No one who's been to NYC can miss the fact that it's one of the filthiest places in America, from the perspective of disease possibilities. Many parts simply pile their trash on the curb and there are rats are everywhere. People pack into subway cars like sardines, and there's no way to avoid droplet transmission. During my time there, I saw several people vomit in public and just walk off.

There are plenty of great things about the city, but lacking a real culture of cleanliness (e.g., Tokyo), density breeds disease.
DH was invented at Stanford.

RSA was allegedly invented at GCHQ.
> New York City has has .02% of it population die above the base death(excess deaths)

Where did you get that number? The numbers I’ve seen are several orders of magnitude higher.
In fact, two digital cameras, a QHYCCD PoleMaster for polar alignment, and an ASI120MC-S with PHD2 software for more precise guiding.
They made a whole movie about it and had congressional investigations and everything.
You just suggested that a lot of ivy-league schools are second tier. I'm not sure you're very representative of the vast majority of people.

In Texas, there's stuff like Stanford and Cornell, which is ivy league -- 1-2 kids might do that. Then we have 2 top tier state schools, then it's the other stuff.

Everyone else I work with got some degree from an Ivy League. Half have PhDs. It carries some weight and I think we get better VC funding and it's easier to get customers, but I don't think the degrees do much beyond that.
Wow, that's pretty great. I'm gonna spin up a Nix VM shortly, see how it goes.
There's clear evidence this is not health theater. The evidence is places that waited to shut down had much larger outbreaks than they would have had otherwise. See for example New Orleans and Mardi gras.
> "Pay attention and think"

Not everyone can.

As someone who left numerous classes early, because confusion & anxiety over the lecture caused vomiting or diarrhea, I promise you I would have given everything to just be able to "pay attention and think."
User tracking, mostly.
That was sort of my point, we shouldn't be giving imaginary credit to various people like throwaway285524 was doing. Like I said, I'm not very happy speculating in either direction.
I was confused about this comment, and wish the article explained it more.

When Muddy Waters first put out the tweet, were they:

(a) planning an investigation of NMC, and the market validated their suspicions when the stock dropped?

(b) planning an investigation of another firm, but then when NMC stock dropped thought "Hey, did we just freak out a bunch of in-the-know traders that something fishy is going on with NMC?" and then start the NMC investigation based on that? If this is the right answer, what was the other firm they were planning to investigate?

(c) not really planning an investigation of any firm in particular, but threw out that tweet in the hopes that someone would bite, and when NMC traders "bit" by selling, that's when they started their investigation?
US Emergency Services Sees Rise in Calls About Ingesting Disinfectant
UK sports (or sports TV at least) is very tightly linked to gambling. Many football teams are sponsored by gambling companies.

About 15 years ago there was a huge debate about whether we should allow “American-style” supercasinos but we just did it through sport instead.
wow, you did not understand almost anything from that post.
>the Ivy League (everyone knows that's just luck of the draw

> the "second-tier" schools (Carnegie-Mellon, Rensselaer, Duke, Cornell, etc.)

I love this. And I'm not putting you down, I didn't know Cornell was an Ivy until I was 22. It reminds of the funny jokes at Andy Bernard's expense on The Office.
Still not a reason to be tame.
I’ll try it out. I’ve been writing CloudFormation and using SAM templates for some recent projects involving Lambda. Defining my general resources is easy enough but having to define through IAM roles and policies turns into a real pain super quick.
> Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn't go into this line of work...

Maybe you're just going for rhetorical force but you are factually wrong. Plenty of people have "raised alarms" about e.g. concussions caused by playing football.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22226487/nfl-concussions...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussions_in_American_footba...

And there have been consequences.

https://www.nflconcussionsettlement.com/
Yes, it did. I'm doing crypto at Google.
I think the growth is on a continuing streak and there’s not a need for a RedHat style support for every package.

I think using these packages and projects requires more due diligence and planning on staff to pick and support, but I think the current highly variable support project by project works out well. And then for big stuff (Linux, Postgres, etc) some commercial support is brought in.

I’d much rather see more support for companies donating developer hours to patches and features. Some way to recognize in kind and labor contributions and expand recognition for these kinds of contributions. I think this works better for software than trying to get every company to pay into some support fund. If you want to pay structured licenses for everyone, there’s a model for that. Trying to shoehorn license fees on top of open source loses a lot of the efficiencies, I think.
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>You know we can just literally choose to not have this problem, instead of buying into other people's narratives.

No, you can't. Goods and services are scarce, legislating them to every person in a country does not lead to everyone getting them.
To me fuzzing still helps finding problems the Formal method of choice doesn't cover. Typically my favorite example is stack use or runtime-duration. I can write a parser guaranteed to have no runtime error (bounds, over/underflow, divide by zero) and still make it crash because of stack or heap exhaustion. Or I can find tortuous cases of denial if service. Because the tool doesn't handle (at the moment) stack or heap size, or execution duration.

Fuzzing still helps a lot in those cases! Especially if you focus on those kinds of problems.
In 30 years if not sooner, humanity will look back and be horrified with this time when we let a whole vulnerable generation fall prey to social media and hyper connectivity while parents bought stocks of the very same recreational drug manufacturers and peddlers who hooked our children to their product.
This article is just sensationalism that wants to attribute any excess deaths throughout this year not officially recorded as covid19 deaths as possible covid deaths. This kind of nonsense is not helpful. The article itself admits there's plenty of other reasons that could be attributed but that it should still be considered. Padding numbers with speculation does not help form good decisions.
As a former New Yorker, I think there are several factors in play.

One is that, basically, he's doing the right thing now, whatever early missteps. That matters.

Another is contrast - being competent is, sadly, not a given with our current leadership.

A final one is just that US culture specifically and humans generally flock to leaders in times of crisis. He's being a leader, there you go.

Rudy "noun, verb, 9-11" got the same treatment until he started making noises about violating the term-limit rules, as much as folks hated him.
This is the segment of every part of the country that aspires to those costal metro areas. The driving motivation is "get me the hell out of this godforsaken place."

The personal cost was immense, but I'm glad I did. I got to do fun and high-impact work at a fast-rising startup while my title and TC leapt up by $50-$100k each year. I got to meet friends from all over the world, travel, hike, run outdoors year-round, never shovel snow again, walk to everything I need from my high-rise apartment.

At home I'd be lucky to have made Help Desk Technician II for $17/hour, lucky to have a car that starts, lucky to know a single personal socially who had ever voluntarily read a book. Most of my classmates who stayed aren't working at all. The only ones really thriving had guaranteed slots at family businesses.

It's not a poor place. Everyone's parents made a decent living. But the firms at which they did so were in either stasis or decline, not desperate to hire 22-year-olds.

The delayed gratification story is very much real.
It's https://vnhacker.blogspot.com. I rarely blog in English. However, right now there's a pretty good post: https://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2020/04/vietnams-contact-traci....
Well, there's a healthy middle ground between an ad-infested 50-page listicle and an Excel spreadsheet that requires you to scroll back and forth to get all the data.

Presenting it as a single-page text structured as:

Article name

Article source, author

Article subject matter

would be much easier on the eyes. And they could put an ad way down below if they wanted to or on the side. (Or no ad at all.)