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Comparing the cost against defense spending, which has a reputation for waste, doesn't convince me. If the cost is similar to two B-2 bombers and one thinks that the B-2 bomber is overpriced, one would probably also think that the LHC is overpriced.

To me, bringing up that the WWW, fancy PET scans, etc. came in part from HEP and therefore we should be grateful is missing one major point. In the WWW case, in an alternative history it seems likely to me that some other project would have developed something similar around the same time if the funding were allocated differently. As for the other benefits, I think if the money were allocated towards research in those areas it would have been more effectively spent.

Ultimately I think the worst "cost" for HEP in general (not just colliders) is that it encourages something like brain drain on other fields. I think that people interested in certain mostly non-practical areas of physics like HEP would do the world a lot more good if they instead got a PhD in some field of engineering or CS, or at the very least a more practical area of "physics". Here I refer to physics in the descriptive sense which doesn't align well with the prescriptive definition of physics. E.g., I don't understand why fluid dynamics is not "physics" in that it's rarely researched in physics departments (unless studied indirectly in chaos theory or plasma physics). Must be too Newtonian for people to care. (For what it's worth I'm at the end of a PhD in mechanical engineering studying fluid dynamics.)
You will end up needing to provisiom lambda size to the worst case of any one function. You need to split them if you want to use resources efficiently according to what the functions do.
>But basically nothing can hit a black hole that size

Why would that be true? Individual gas molecules manage to disk-ify and turn in to planets, I don't see why a black hole couldn't. This would presumably happen in the early stages of system formation when there was a lot of stuff flying around separately.
If you want to get started, you can download DCS World for free (a combat simulator, but very realistic with free-flight modes and VR support) and play that until FS is out.
All other countries have the same need for printing money, so the value compared to other currencies should remain stable.
People are reading too much into aberrations from the norm, which happens with any disease, leading them to conclude the novel coronavirus is something extraordinary, when none of the evidence supports that at all.

It is of course unique, like all viruses, and has its own distinctive pathophysiology, but nothing about it stands out as exceptional. Influenza can also cause all kinds of deadly complications in rare cases, and in fact is significantly more deadly for the under 65 population than the coronavirus.
I can't see the article because paywall, so out of grim curiosity: Do the journalists (at the so-called "Wall Street Journal") get through the whole article without mentioning once that "Stocks react to changed forecasts as events become predictable, not to events as they play out the forecast" or "Stocks discount the next 20 years of revenues, not revenues this year"? Has economic illiteracy progressed that far? Or is there yet a tiny redoubt of econoliteracy somewhere in the newspaper?
>>It is used for orbit lowering but not for insertion.

It is not used for insertion of orbiters because strapping some rockets to them is easier/lighter than the heat shields and other equipment that would be needed for braking. They would also have to retract solar panels and do a bunch of other things. The martian atmosphere is more than thick enough to handle the ~1km/s for insertion. All the landers shed more than that (3km/s) on entry from orbit, a maneuver that only uses 1/2 the braking potential of the atmosphere.
IMO Linux still has pretty poor graphics drivers, and the whole Wayland thing is in a weird spot right now too. My primary use my my PC is a work machine, for which Linux is very well suited. I also game on my PC. For that, I have tried limiting my self to native Linux games, Wine, directed assigned graphics with a windows VM, and plain old dual booting. In the end I keep end up dual booting. Gaming graphics cards don't work well under Linux. However, I've had great luck with low end workstation graphics cards, especially those running the new AMDGPU driver.

If you are an expert, there has never been a better time to move to Linux. If you are a novice, there still hasn't been a better time, but its also still not for everyone.
Where is that picture of the striped land from?
If you’re not boycotting them, why are you saying there’s no chance you’re ever going to buy their products?
I haven't read the book, but this presentation from professor John Ousterhout on the book was pretty good: https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY
All deaths are just people who would have died later anyway.
Serious question: can you show me the metrics for california with concrete targets that will trigger reopening? The last plan I saw wasn't a plan at all, it was just guidelines.
it’s not cool to use it. why use a service that’s written, ran and maintained by a dedicated team that also builds all the other services you use? (if in AWS). they don’t know what they’re doing, right?

better use some randotool and talk big about Iaac when in reality the only people that I have ran across and loved Terraform either 1) used it on a really small scale or 2) don’t really have a lot of experience with the cloud.

the only reason to not use Cloudformation is that you’re not using AWs. Use whatever your cloud provides.

For everyone that has objections, an appeal to authority: I was building stuff on the cloud before you knew the cloud was a thing. I worked with AWS, GCP, Azure and [sad face] OpenStack extensively.
Ask HN: How do you prepare for a new job?
Hey all, I'm starting my first big boy job a week from Monday (digitally) and don't know the first thing about the 9-5 work day. I would like to be as effective and prepared as possible, and to that end wanted to hear some perspectives on how people prepare for new jobs. I will be working as a data analyst intern, FWIW.
It's in 20.04, the next LTS, which will be an upgrade option to you in a month.
Thank you for the link, I shall read it in a bit. EDIT: Looks like they address the point on breakdown by sex but I can't tell whether they address breakdown by type of comorbidity. They don't discuss how large a factor is the unaccounted for subpopulation traits potentially causing both decrease in life expectancy and increase in covid19 morbidity (or one, but not the other, which would bias results the other way), but I suppose that's very difficult to estimate.

I am unconvinced that the deaths of care home residents and retirees would be bad for the economy (setting aside its more general badness).

The elderly demand for carers and other goods and services hugely exceeds the supply available at the price point they (or their NHS) can afford. The deaths of a huge number of care patients and the elderly in general would let the NHS shuffle resources around and be far less overstretched in caring for the elderly. Their consumption of other goods and services is fairly minor by comparison.

Indeed, the quality of service offered by the NHS would hugely improve (I doubt the government wpild be willing to cut its budget too much for a few years).

I don't have a good enough grasp of economics or the situation in the USA to speculate much on the effects, but find myself skeptical that the US economy is demand limited.
If you aren't able to read research papers and synthesize an opinion on them then by your own standards it seems you shouldn't have an opinion here. You can't tell whether Damore was right or wrong because you can't read papers from different fields and reach conclusions.

You think the authors Damore cited rejected him. Perhaps you have an example of that. I haven't seen anything beyond the authors agreeing with Damore's interpretation of the facts and saying they don't know about the conclusions. It's obviously not very compelling given that Damore was metaphorically tarred on feathered on social media and fired, so researchers saying they "don't know" about the conclusions might be because they genuinely don't know or might be because they don't want to invite backlash of their own.
Terraform resources aren't meant to be externally modified. The fonciguration itself shouldn't have a life of it's own. It should represent the whole behavior of the stack
> a second wave of epidemic

Judging by people's behavior, and the politicization of even common sense measures like mask wearing in the US, I think this is likely. I hope I'm wrong.
I don’t see it as a problem per-se, it just defies the notion of having a somehow unique, identifiable self which I understood as a condition for OP’s question and which I suppose is how most people view themselves.

As far as I’m concerned we might very well be just processes that can in theory be copied and recreated. In that case the person in the thought experiment would exist twice at a single point in time and then diverge into to different persons due to different environments and probabilistic processes in the body.
They will. They'll remember he's the nominee of the party they don't hate because of some single stance on some single issue, and vote for him.
I think my advice would be to try to pick one of the easier options (maybe not the easiest, but probably also not a complex and risky option) and decide beforehand that you'll see it through until some goal (or perhaps for a certain number of hours).

It also helps to have someone who works on a similar thing, to exchange thoughts, vent frustration, and perhaps receive encouragement.
Is it a cultural thing Americans are so detached? Its usual here to call your family 2 to 4 times a week
This would not solve the issue when the email is sent to a mailing list.
There is much bigger risk of deflation during a depression. Do you really think there will be wage inflation when there is 20% unemployment?
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Australian, South Korean and New Zealand's currencies jumped in value because they handled the pandemic very well and are now very attractive investments.
If they were JUST functions they could be static utils and wouldn't need to be beens. But these service classes themselves have their own fields/dependencies.

The Service class holds an instance of the Caching class and the Database class, each of those hold an instance of clients with connections, for example.

Can you explain how language support would remove this pattern?

I'm currently working on Scala services, and we don't have any DI, which is actually kinda nice, but it just means we "new-up" all these classes manually in our Main class and pass them through as arguments one to the next.

So far I like how there is no "spring magic"; however, in the end the pattern of dependencies is the same.
I’m in, I’m out. Who’s kidneys are these?
Would something like https://readthedocs.org work?
AI Explorables – big ideas in machine learning, simply explained
Worth reading all chapters that are in here, but chapter 3 gets at the meat of where we're heading. We're at the end of a long credit cycle post WWII, dislocation of the dollar from the gold standard, to bretton woods, to now QE printing of money being loaned to the government by the fed.

Market reflects the cash flow available being printed by the FED to keep the markets up.

https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/
UW gives money to illegal immigrants who don't qualify for federal aid
lol these songs made me feel like the stores are open again :)
> Racket produces standalone applications that can be codesigned using Apple's tools

Can you elaborate on how this works? I've been wanting to try something similar.
All you've demonstrated is general male misogyny. This is nothing new, and has as much overlap with fraternities as charities, churches, and sports.

Painting it was "frat bro" just makes for a better more exciting headline.
I still remember the feeling of dread in my stomach the first time I used Windows 10 and realized Microsoft had added a lock screen I had to click past to get to the login screen. On a desktop OS. Just because smartphone sales were booming and that's what smartphones do.
> How about sending cash? You can do that with a bank account.

But, you dont need a bank account to send cash as is. You can use a system like western union, or just put cash in the mail.

Western union has high fees, sure, but the money it sends also doesnt lose 10% of its value in half an hour. Exchanging to and from crypto isnt free either, and is required, since approximately 0% of people get paid in crypto, and 0% of goods and services are bought in crypto.

Sending cash in the mail might get lost, stolen or seized, but the same can be said of crypto. Or, you can send something safer like a postal money order which has minimal fees ($1.25 up to $500, $1.75 $500 to $1000).
> thoughtworks technology radar

I've never heard of this magazine but it like a very useful curated list. Thanks for mentioning this!
By the time the all engines shut off, I would hope that the capsule is high enough where drag is effectively not a concern.

The nose is a Apollo/Starliner style launch escape system.
That is a very long sentence
Sure, it’s a standard defense mechanism. The particular mental model you are describing, the ‘living in the future’ model, is often used by people on extreme ends to justify all types of bad behavior in the present. They begin to rationalize simple things like procrastinating, because ‘it won’t be like this in the future, so I am absolved of my actions in the present’.

The OP is effectively saying ‘I don’t have to do any work, because in the future I will have the perfect idea that will be worth working on’.

That’s the root issue that needs to be tackled, plenty of other posters have given frameworks for doing so (breaking things down, etc).

But we must keep the root cause in mind, because it will always pop up in other scenarios, e.g ‘It’s okay if I never followed up with this girl/guy, because one day I’ll meet a better girl/guy’, or, ‘I don’t have to care too much about this person, because he/she won’t be around in a few months’, etc.

It’s all part of the same framework, be vigilant.
Well, what else to do with your money?

It is called asset price inflation. Most assets will devalue at some point but, in the broader range, won't go to zero.

This is not clear for FIAT money.
Exactly this is why I don’t understand the folks who think inflation is a purely monetary phenomenon. With demand shocks like this how can we not have deflation?
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I accidentally grabbed the number for average female height. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But it’s not just your life you’re gambling with. You’re gambling with other people’s lives. People who have just as much right to life as you do. People who may be in a much higher risk bracket than you. People who might very well die.
If your mother is a kind person whom you love, then by all means reach out and tell her.

To others like me who may have a gaslighting c* * * of a mother, don't be bullied by societal norms into feeling like a bad person just because you don't want to connect with an abuser. It's perfectly fine to not call your mother on mother's day if you don't have the kind of relationship that will benefit from it.
Check first if it applies for your mom. Many but not all countries celebrate it today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day
it’s a shell script with some signed installers.
Turing.jl is great as is Flux.jl (which I have used more).

I retired a year ago and was looking to settle down and just use one programming language - easier on an old guy like myself, who has always been fascinated with many programming languages. I ended up picking Common Lisp for my retirement projects, mostly because of almost 4 decades experience with CL.

For a Lisp programmer, Julia feels like a very comfortable language. The interactive repl is very nice. I experimented with Flux a lot, and wrote snippets for web scraping, text processing, etc. It also worked really well for these non-numeric use cases: a very good general programming language, not just for numeric processing.

Julia has great Python interop so just in case you need a Python library, you have it available.
Valve did so because they had steam money to rely on, they were boiling the frog slowly.

Notice what they did to TF2 and now the are making artifact (totally microtransaction based game).

Notice how all that money from Dota 2 and TF2 were the end game, you don't get that STEAM malware client, was for valve to ultimately to get to in game stores. Valve was very careful in how they manipulated you into not owning your ow games so they could shove in game stores and mtx into them.

For other games like battlefield or modern warfare, and even overwatch... the problem remains that they can shut down the game remotely, aka Overwatch is not coded in an honest way where you own the game outright, you can't use its multiplayer as a stand alone app, aka you're using stolen software that is coded in a criminally screwed up way so that Activision maintains control.

The whole goal for the game industry was in game stores and mtx in every game and to do that they need to undermine game ownership.

Fortnite, Dota 2, and league of legends would have been fully boxed product games with LAN multiplayer/dedicated servers in a past era, aka for most AAA games we no longer get server exe's and get matchamking.

Quake champions is literally a stolen quake game where you don't get to own it, quake fans wanted a quake they owned and controlled like the first 4 quakes, with QeRadiant, dedicated servers, etc.

Quake champions can only exist in a world where companies have won and games are being coded in criminally underhanded ways to deny local application game files.
Yes, in practice it's more important to do something. I'm reminded of Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
oh that’s neat!

thanks
> why should share prices fall by more than 5-10% for every year that Corona is locking down the economy?

Risk adjustment.

1-Risk of death/bankruptcy for companies.

2-Risk of reduced consumer spending. This can happen because people are in financial shock, or because unemployment stays high. Perhaps some of these layoffs aren't "furloughs." Some of these businesses won't survive, like many restaurants. My expense is your revenue, but I won't spend if I don't feel "safe" physically and financially and if I don't have a job, well... On top of which, what if some part of society stops going out?

3-Risk of permanently slowed economic activity due to coronavirus spread in trading partners.

4-Risk that the vaccines don't work out and there is no "time after corona." Even if this risk is small, it is non-zero, and catastrophic.
OpenSourceWeekly #10: Federated social networks (The Fediverse)
Looks like this HN thread is also going to give you a lot of options. Now you need to be careful to choose which one to go for :)
Do you have scientific evidence of this?
Where are you? I am 43, Turkish, call mom twice a week and feel bad about it because it's not nearly enough.
> This disease has the potential to kill 3 million Americans

This is looking less and less likely. With increasing evidence that the infection fatality rate is 0.6%, and that the herd immunity threshold may be somewhere around 30% infected, it's more like 700k. Still catastrophe, but 1/4th the catastrophe you imply...

> All our government has asked of us, begrudgingly, is to stay inside for a while, and we can’t even do that without whining.

I favored sheltering before everyone else. It was a good way to blunt the incident wave of the epidemic and prevent health care overload.

At this point, Rt with the current intervention isn't low enough to ever get us to a regime of extreme containment in any reasonable/attainable amount of time, and there's too many jurisdictions that are hotbeds of the virus that will just reintroduce it. I am not convinced that the current strategy saves lives in the long term.

It even risks backing us into a corner, where we have no choice but to reopen more than we'd like, and then face a devastating fall season with little population immunity and no seasonal factors on our side. Especially in locations like the SF Bay Area, under the nation's strictest health order but also with a very low per capita case load.

Worse, it's hard to be sure the intervention is even effective. Looking at data series on https://rt.live , there's no obvious inflection or discontinuity relating to sheltering or relaxing of sheltering in the individual states' series. Rt was falling before sheltering, and continued to fall at a comparable rate afterwards...
Discussion on r/ProgrammingLanguages: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/gg0cm...
It’s just an alternate spelling. It means the same thing, and children will still learn the word if it is written this way.
I imagine a significant fraction of the 5.5 million unemployed in the food and drink sector will quickly get back to work once the economy reopens. These businesses are essentially on pause; if the state can support them until it is time to reopen, then the jobs will still be intact at the end. I don't think the demand for restaurants and bars has gone down by much.
grab gnome tweaks (some distros include it). it exposes many of those native settings for you (desktop icons, min/maximize buttons, etc)
I was going to ask the same. In some countries, Mother's Day is so important that you organize it a few days before, you meet for lunch (or dinner), and you buy a present (like another birthday). Of cousre, during this pandemic we cannot meet, but are there some people who don't call?
Strawman argument.

Who is saying the goal is “zero deaths at all costs”? I see governors seriously weighing the costs and risks, and talking about the response when (not if) reopening leads to new flare-ups.

Whitmer: “As we start to very shrewdly reopen (edited: autocorrect) sectors, we’ve got to measure every step of the way. If we start to see a spike, we have to be nimble enough to pull back...”

Newsom: “As we move into the next stage of reopening, we will do so with updated guidance to help qualifying businesses make modifications needed to lower the risk of COVID-19 exposure to customers and workers. Californians should prepare now for that second stage of reopening...”

Cuomo: “This is not a sustainable situation.” However, “You see that you reopen too soon or you reopen unintelligently and you can then have an immediate backlash.”

And so on. I concede there may be someone out there arguing for “zero” but I don’t see the goal of even the more aggressively locked down US states being “zero”.
Interesting that you were diagnosed with bipolar, was the possibility of ADHD discussed, and if it was, how did they determine that it was bipolar and not ADHD?

I was diagnosed with ADHD, with the possibility of bipolar, and also have a sweet tooth for stimulants, both legal and not (I'm basically fuelled on caffeine, nicotine, and amphetamines).

I've also never heard of modafinil being prescribed as a treatment for bipolar disorder either, do you happen to have any resources on this?
What about high yield bonds, are they worse than investing in stocks right now?
An Implementation of Schelling Segregation Model Using Python and Streamlit
Interesting that some people really dislike this answer.
The best argument I've seen is that the stock market typically prices things in faster than other parts of the economy, so the stock market took the hit well before things like unemployment indicators did.

Also, some stocks are doing alright, while others are doing badly, depending on what sector they're in. Looking at the aggregate gives misleading information.