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You must have been really confused when React moved to 16.X ;)

My scenario is similar. The current version is 100%. However, I'm going to be refactoring a bit, moving some pieces around, to support some new features. The only breaking changes that user's will notice is that ```darch recipes build``` will be moving to ```docker build .```. I've already converted my personal recipes to use it.
The system also doesn't have to go up all at once. Delivery app aren't going anywhere, but rather than try and implement an unproven system city wide, at impossible expense, build one residential skyscraper (which is still going to be O($100 million), mind you), and equip it with a building-sized set of dumb-waiters (public-private option, with the government providing incentives). Either to the apartment directly or even just to the right floor. See how that gets used. Delivery people still have to come to the premises, but can send the food up. Use this to figure out what level of security is needed and such.
Few people outside academia, maybe? But inside it still seems to dominate in areas like physics computation. CERN uses a world wide Condor grid. LIGO too. It’s excellent for sharing cycles for those slow-burn, highly parallel, massive data scale problems.

I spent more than a decade bringing Condor to semi-conductor, financial and biomedical institutions. It was always a fight to show them there was a better way to utilize their massive server farms that didn’t require paying the LSF Tax. Without a shiny sales or marketing department, Condor was hard to pitch to IT departments.

Still, to this day, I see people doing things with “modern” platforms like Kubernetes and such and I chuckle. Had that in Condor 15 years ago in many cases. :)
Most people would spend more. Here’s the best part, are you ready? Assuming people don’t bury the money or keep it under a mattress, that money gets pooled up in some sort of custodian account. Then that money gets loaned out and invested.

So you do want to get a cheaper service and it does benefit society.
Money doesn’t just “exist” like trees

It’s a feature of a society

Society can set rules on how it’s used. And it pushes “unspoken ones” constantly.

There are exactly zero laws of physics that dictate the mathematical shape of our finance system. It’s all human negotiated grift to funnel the value of effort at scale into ephemeral objects we fetishize collectively

Like sky wizards

This isn’t sitting in a room talking to your friends about whatever you want

Anyone can still do that

Politically, free speech to me is emitting whatever syntax I want, and not obliging others to any discoverable semantic meaning they find, and having the same returned

Too often free speech = I’m owed being who I want 24/7 in all contexts

That’s a gross over simplification. Such a life is impossible to achieve without society picking up a whole lot of burden

And really to regurgitate your last line: why do you care how private entities choose to do business?
On the other hand this means it is much more infectious and there are many more infective asymptotic carriers. This will almost certainly make it impossible to contain using traditional public health means such as contact tracing and quarantining.
>The names of the companies or people behind ads, as well as their countries of origin, will begin appearing on Google ads this summer, starting with several thousand advertisers a month in the United States before expanding worldwide. The measure, which could take years to implement, is designed as a defense against businesses and individuals who misrepresent themselves in paid online promotions, Google said.

lol so a tiny crypto exchange can req. ID docs but a huge trillion dollar company will take years>
Indeed, weird to only find it that low as a sub-comment:

spawn(Node, Module, Function, Args) -> pid()

Returns the process identifier (pid) of a new process started by the application of Module:Function to Args on Node. If Node does not exist, a useless pid is returned. Otherwise works like spawn/3.
In cases like what sadly people mean most of the time by credible authority, is authority that they agree with.
Prediction: It'll be surprisingly difficult for Mom and Pop to provide sufficient proof of identity and surprisingly easy for mega corporations to do so. There will be a way to report suspected abusers that heavily skews in this direction. It'll basically be like IP enforcement on YouTube.
the point of the article wasn't to say don't wear a mask. the point was that it is dangerous to tell people a mask is 90% effective when its not. lying about the effectiveness WILL cause people will take risks they shouldn't making the situation worse. being honest about the masks effectiveness and explain why it still helps is the best thing we can do.
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This is a ridiculously bad analogy. It’s so bad, I would expect it only from right-wing disinformation efforts who are self-parodies of incorrectness.

There is no correspondence between an acute chemical poisoning mechanism and the mechanism of ionizing radiation induced illness for longer-term effects.

A more correct analogy for LNT, indeed, a “model”, would be a rifle fired at random in to a room. If there is one person in the room, there is say a 1 in 5,000 chance the bullet will hit them. If they are hit, there is a 1 in 10 chance they will die.

If you fire the rifle a million times in to a million rooms, you get a linear scale-up and expect 200 people to be hit, and 20 of them to die. It scales linearly, with no threshold below which the mortality rate declines.

If you pack the room with more people the probability of hitting someone goes up, etc.

Now there are indeed well-based arguments to say that there are indeed thresholds of effects of ionizing radiation, including studies where low ambient levels are present in populations, to studies attempting to show radiation hormesis effects. Those studies have not displaced LNT thus far because they are not clearly conclusive in understanding what they are saying.

LNT has been the standard for 70 years not because it was promulgated by idiots, but rather because it is a conservative protective measure designed by the best minds of the time, using the best information that was reliably known.

So please, discuss hormesis, show alternative models, etc., but please do not try to impugn the model as stemming from idiots - the Manhattan-era physicists were certainly miles smarter than anyone reading HN today - and has not been displaced yet because no one understands a better model of how to protect people from injury and death.
Comment from the representative (probably) of the "Chinese Quora" is interesting as well :)
If they're not producing reproducible builds, they're not really being serious are they?
Ask HN: What are your tips for concentrating on your work while staying at home?
Hi everyone, during these hard times it is difficult to concentrate. So I was wondering if you guys have any hacks?
>Eleven percent of men told the pay-equity software company that they have considered doing the same.

Is a 3% difference statistically significant?

The article details inequities in employment between men and women, but I don’t think this survey shows an example of that.
My apologies, but your analogy is flawed. An adverse effect of ionizing radiation is that it could cause a mutation that replicates (before it's caught by the immune system) - cancer. It's therefore intrinsically probabilistic: if you're exceedingly unlucky, a small amount of ionizing radiation could get you there. That does not apply to your caffeine analogy, which actually does have a threshold.

Now, there's indications that at least the linearity of the LNT model is off in that there IS any effect of the immune system on the outcome, but that at high doses, it may be suppressed thus making the response non linear. I'm sure there's other effects of that nature and I don't think this is particularly well understood. But I dare say the linear no threshold model is actually somewhat more supported by common sense than you imply. Your distinction between the words "model" and "assumption" is moot by the way. A model is an attempt to (typically mathematically) describe a complex process. That's always an assumption in that sense. :)

(Former high energy physicist. Not an MD. Not a medical physicist.)
The article is almost half done before it begins to explain the basic mechanics of the service, and I still didn't really get it until I read elsewhere. If it was easy for anyone to sign up and/or it had been around for a while, that might be OK, but given that it's not, a sentence or two to tell the reader WTF you're writing about would be helpful.

TechCrunch explains it succinctly in the second paragraph: "The most buzzy of these startups is Clubhouse, an audio-based social network where people can spontaneously jump into voice chat rooms together. You see the unlabeled rooms of all the people you follow, and you can join to talk or just listen along, milling around to find what interests you."
Aren't they dropping support for the Linux kernel? I think guix is cool, but I'm not interested in being force-fed the Hurd.
We already have an educated population.
I wonder whether makeup influences the frequency or location of face touches. I wear glasses/contacts and I’ve noticed I rub my eyes fairly often during my (recently makeup-free) work day but I definitely don’t when I’m wearing mascara or false lashes.
Is there any G Suite-compliant system to pause a company's email out of hours?
I'd love to setup something whereby company email pauses for the whole business out of hours.

I've seen Boomerang's Pause and I'm aware of DND Email, but neither appears to allow you to pause ALL email across the business.

Appreciate the answer here might be "don't use Google Suite" which could then give us more control, but ideally I wanted to find something whereby people would not get emails between, say, 8pm and 8am, across all devices. TBH I'm surprised something like this doesn't already exist given well-being is such a hot topic these days.
If you think pointing out a bug due to an edge case someone didn't think of is the XY problem, I'm afraid you don't know what the XY problem is.
Thank you for the clear example that drives the point home.

LNT for radiation made sense in 1950 before we had sufficient data on how the body responds to radiation. Today, after carefully studying irradiated populations for 70 years, we know enough to conclude that it no longer makes sense.
Yes, don't think they were aware of news profile names being green for first <2 weeks. In this instance for the 5 hours they signed up to astroturf.
It's just a cultural problem. There's no reason why a library should abstract away `typeof obj.then === 'function'` if they want to check if something is a promise. Just write a one-liner the same way you don't pull in a `is-greater-than-zero` lib to check x>0.

The problem is when you try to level criticism at this culture and a cloud chorus of people will show up to assert that somehow tiny deps are good despite these glaring issues (a big one just being security vulns). And funnily enough, the usual suspects are precisely people publishing these one-liner libs. Then people regurgitate these thoughts and the cargo cult continues.

So there's no "fix" for NPM (not even sure what that would mean). I mean, anyone can publish anything. People just have to decide to stop using one-liner libs just because they exist.
Twitter Verification process is a biased
A tiny crypto exchange is probably in a position where they can easily get existing employees to manually verify the documents without a significant impact on their business.

In addition to needing to verify orders of magnitude more entities, google likely has many layers of both human and technical abstraction to deal with.
The social engineering aspect of pandemic control is fascinating and something I had never considered before. It's not enough to put the right policies in place. You have to get people to actually follow them (voluntarily). It's like writing a user story on a grand scale.
Technology shapes TV shows’ narrative arcs
Not jewish, interested in the variations amongst individuals and groups of the human race. I have worked with a number of Ashkenazi Jews in multiple fields and have been astonished at the overwhelming proportion (relative to population). There have been many cultural explanations of the phenomenon (e.g. Talmudic education) which I find unconvincing. Genetic selection supported by hundreds of years of cultural practices and socio-political constraints seems most plausible.

Q: are other populations where similar phenomena have played out?
What does that have to do with visual programming? Any program written with a "reliance on global variables and go-to statements" is going to be "extremely bug prone and unintelligible" -- visual or otherwise. There are certainly VPLs with scope and flow control constructs.
It seems that WhatsApp has some oddity in how it handles captions on media items.

I forward messages between various groups, but when you forward a media item like an image, it doesn't forward the caption with it. This is incredibly frustrating - sometimes you don't realize you've forwarded a photo of something that has no context, and my recipients have been often clueless until I have to clarify.
Yes; well that made no sense, considering anything.
Just add it for free.

If that's not good enough, buy a PhD from some random sham "school."

If that's not good enough, go work at a random, exclusive, graduate school department of your desired university as an employee until they let you in their program. (I saw someone do this at [one of: Stanford, Berkeley or CalTech] and now they're a big-shot at Cedars-Sinai.)

But why would anyone want to add "Dr." to their email signature? The only ones who do that, in my experience#, tend to be either narcissistic or deeply insecure. Folks with lengthy creds don't tend to rub colleagues' noses in it, and many societies at-large tend toward anti-intellectualism. (If you go to Harvard or Yale and other people aren't WASPs, then you say you go to Northeastern or NYU.)

# I worked at a department with a 2% acceptance rate that had multiple TED speakers, and also a grad student married a decabillionaire.
I once worked for an e-commerce site which added 3 tracking tools to the website but could for the love of god not make out why they were losing customers. They suggested adding another tracking tool on top.
I read it as somewhat insulting to the complimenter. "You think this is good? My own standards are much higher."

Maybe that's unfair, but in the context of the author's prior description of being involved in trying to achieve, or join, or do things to stand out, the interpretation I gave feels more plausible.

It seems much more polite and appropriate to me to not react that way.
Thank you for sharing this.

Having read it, I feel kinda stupid. My teens were all about just getting through HS, parties, bonfires and generally all sorts of stupid things you do as a kid. I did not think thoughts on the level of 'my generation'. That level of abstraction did not even occur to me.

I was just very lucky to have cohort full of very smart kids, so even with all HS drama, I managed to learn a lot.

I dunno. In a sense, we had it easier. Mistakes were not live streamed. At worst, they were remembered.

I do not envy the pressure teens feel today. Not participating in this at all risks missing out on a chance to 'stand out'.
> See for example the abortions... are nonetheless lives lost due to the disaster.

Unless you have some additional evidence of euthanizing newborns or otherwise near-term pregnancies, abortions do not count as lives lost to the disaster to anyone but political reactionaries.
I've only ever enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum by Eco, which seemed mostly a sober variation on the The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
I'm on a windows laptop and didn't even realize that there were links listed on the right side until I started writing this link and went back to check that it was a pain to find the link.
So it isn't the best medium for laptop either.
To be clear, The Shining wasn’t alternated against the wishes of the director, but in fact at the behest of the director, and to positive effect.

But on that note, if you’re interested in the studio messing with the director’s intended work, check out the “Love Conquers All” version of the movie “Brazil” (1985). It starts like 40 minutes in, makes no goddamn sense, and ends on a happy note where the original film... definitely doesn’t. A friend of mine described it as (SPOILER for the movie Se7en): “As if in the movie Se7en instead of his wife’s head in the box, it was a cake and she rolled out on a unicycle singing Happy Birthday.”
We Still Don't Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us
Isn't that a good thing? If cost of living can be reduced by having more jobs available in low cost of living places, then everyone wins (except landlords). That's also one of the arguments for working from home or "revitalizing" a small town by a big company moving in.
New IRC report exposes double emergency of Covid-19 in humanitarian crises
We don’t cry about the millions of heart attacks that are easily prevented. We definitely don’t Give a damn about some person dying of cancer when they are smokers. Why are we drawing a distinction here?

You chose to eat X and not exercise for years/decades. A middle class American has enough education and purchasing power to know and behave accordingly.

Does it suck? Yes, but i find it incredibly unfair and hypocritical towards the rest of the world by ruining their lives based on the extremely old and or fat/unhealthy population.
I don't know an answer, but I'm curious why you'd want this. Theres a lot of tools that rely on email verification for login or other tasks. Like Slack's magic link emails that are used to log in.

Does this mean people would be unable to use those apps as well during the pause?
That seems somewhat unlikely. Only a few insiders would realize the full dimension of the accounting fraud or the implications of some obscure figures, insider sales are reported and ones which aren't part of pre-planned sales are often noticed, to singlehandedly tank the stock would require a lot of sales, and why would these insiders be avidly following the tweets of a relatively obscure short-seller and instantly commit a large fraction of their net worth to a sale based solely on the possibility that a random tweet refers to them?
Nice article! I have a couple of questions.

> [reciprocal square root] it is particularly well supported in SIMD and GPU and is generally about the same speed as simple division.

Curious, Raph - why is the erf using f64? Reciprocal square root is well supported for single precision, but not double precision. And the spline fit constants in there are single precision anyway. I’m guessing it’d be a lot faster with no harmful effects as f32. (Seems to work fine on ShaderToy BTW).

Also curious if erf() might be overkill? Did you compare to using a smoothstep()? What are the quality indicators you’re looking for? It seems like I get very close to the same results as your erf approximation if I use smoothstep(0., blurwidth, sqrt(d)) where d is the SDF distance to the box. (With the added benefit that I automatically have a strict bound on the blur.)
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I think it's because at the top level, everyone already has perfect grades so schools need additional criteria to limit their selection pool.
Two viruses may be possible, but other diseases certainly can have similar ranges of problems: The Flu might case different type of lung problems-- pneumonia, bronchitis, exacerbate asthma. Or it might hit your stomach, or result in ear infections by allowing other opportunistic infections to fester, or seizures. It may cause pericarditis or other heart problems, or strokes. So it is not unreasonable to assume that Covid-19 might cause the same symptoms through 2 different mechanisms.
I spent a while playing with PowerVR trying to reverse it on my beaglebone.

It's a huge pain, they feel like an order of magnitude more effort than Mali cores to get running with free drivers as they run a full RTOS on their GPU cores. They also have tons of bugs they hack around on a per rev basis around the caching and virtual memory systems which means your reversed code will sort of work for a bit, then start mysteriously start failing as you pull your hair out for a month.

Neat design; I just wish Imagination would get their head out of their ass and approach the community. They might still have a viable business if they had done that before now.
But that doesn't make sense. Laws don't have loopholes in them for the off chance that it turns out to be a bad law.

Legislation, laws, and law enforcement as technologies have always had these trade offs, and they have progressed tremendously over the centuries (or millennias).

From the Roman veto of the tribune of the plebs, to current constitutional review there are many checks and balances. But legislation as a process doesn't have inherent loopholes.

Currently for every piece of law proposed many official and civil groups warn of the potential unintended side effects of it. But then the majority usually disregards those concerns.
Interesting that they still use MySql and did not switch to MariaDB.

What is HNs opinion on MySql vs MariaDB?
The way LNT works with radiation is that we knew a death-dose curve from the atomic bombs in Japan at extremely high dose. This was acute radiation poisoning (comparable to chemical poisoning). This response curve is precisely the thing that has been extrapolated down to miniscule doses just above background. The analogy you are critiquing with acute chemical dose is right on.

The rifle fired at random in a room analogy is vastly more flawed and does not take into account how the body deals with radiation. There are cell damage events all the time, and there are repair mechanisms that fix them in the body at a baseline rate. These repair mechanisms make radioactive cell damage look a lot like chemical damage at low levels.

Radiation has been a part of the universe forever. 50% of the internal heat of the earth is from radiation. Space is radioactive. Cosmic rays rain down on us all day and all night. The body can and does deal with this, up to a point, after which it becomes inundated.

Thus, a small boost in radiation, far below natural background, cannot be expected to increase deaths.
Do you have a source for this? I haven't heard of any delivery company truly being 99% autonomous.
ahh you beat me to it… "fax me a burrito"
How was this not already a thing? How does Google not already have a billing address on file for all the advertisers they're accepting money from? It seems like this shouldn't have ever been "voluntary information".
It's as reproducible as a bash script that you call on first boot to configure your machine.