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> How we're supposed to learn how to fly to space.

Space is too big for people to go anywhere within human lifespans. Hoping for human space exploration isn't a strategy.

This is similar to the current corona lockdown. Hoping for national US testing and tracing doesn't get you there, so give it a rest.
I don't think this deserved to be downvoted. Foreign analysis of a local phenomenon always has a slant. It can't be avoided.

Explication of local culture in a foreign language for the benefit of foreigners will also have a slant. But it will be a very different slant, and it's a lot more accessible than the native materials. If the goal is "deep insight into how India works [today]", then Being Different is probably a pretty valuable thing to read even if the scholarship is shoddy. (On which question I have no opinion whatever.)
Didn't numerous specialized covid hospitals close in Washington without ever seeing a patient?

I know for sure about the military one, in fairly certain there were several.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/10/armys-seattle...

A lot of governors "went it alone" because generally, for anyone under 60 who didn't have multiple co-morbidities, this was just a bad flu season. That gave these governors a grand opportunity to implement And enforce bad policies in the name of keeping people safe.

The irony of it is, the policies of these governors effectively isolated quarantined those who were most vulnerable to the virus, those in assisted living and nursing homes with those known to be infected with coronavirus effectively turning them into death camps. Your governor effectively executed them, while quarantining anyone least likely to be affected by the covid. The fallout effects from their actions will be felt long after this is over.

Yeh. You guys did a great job out there.. Hold your heads up high Washingtonians, you have so much to be proud of.. And i think he very much represents who you are.
It's not about the gear, as long as you have a lot of really expensive gear.
Why would a single application's behaviour get "fixed" by an OS update?? Isn't the issue with Zoom?

Have you looked in Activity Monitor or Instruments to see what Zoom is doing to see why the machine gets sluggish?
There was a quick update that we put and the server was down for around 1 minute. I think you accessed just at that moment. Sorry for the inconvenience, please try now.
People who lost an ability to enjoy start to make a competition out of everything. So at least they can get a little satisfaction from that they read faster then someone else and this is measurable.

How much you enjoying though can't be measured so many don't count it as real.
I absolutely love NextDNS and I don't think I've ever been so pleased for a product to start charging me.
As you point out, the sorting of arrays and sequential access files (tapes) have different algorithms.

the cost of access to a tape record is not negligible and it is the main cost. But for arrays/memory it's almost 0, the weight of memory access.

Niklaus Wirth describes this in the classic book "(Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs)". There is a full chapter comparing the best/normal/worst case for each approach.

Those were "Elegant weapons for a more civilized Age.".
FWIW, the author doesn't swear off USING ebooks, just buying them.
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OW2 is supposed to add PvE-Content, as OW1 is purely PvP. If they add significant amount of content, then the "2" would be more than justified. Most games are blatant cash grabs, you don't invest millions just for fun. Delivering something good or something bad for the player makes the difference.
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I wrote a Go CLI Boilerplate sometime back: https://github.com/pulkitsharma07/go-cli-boilerplate, it addresses some common issue which I faced while developing a full-fledged CLI.

Features (From Readme):

* Unit and Integration test structure for the CLI

* Opinionated directory structure for organizing code for commands.

* Docker-based cross-platform build pipeline

* Travis CI-based release workflow

* Makefile for common tasks like generating documentation and building the binary.
I do not understand why they did this, and I say that as a Catalina user. Jeff Johnson seems to have some thoughts (and a sort-of solution) on it, though: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/software-update.html
> most media is owned by News Corp

This I'm afraid isn't true, though it may feel like it.

None of the free-to-air TV channels are owned by News Corp, which remains the purview of BBC and ITV in the main. It has minimal investment in radio stations. It has The Sun, The Times and Sunday Times. It used to have the News of the World.

It doesn't have the Mail, Express, Independent, Guardian, Mirror etc.
Kinda like "A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression".
> Curated search (domains chosen by a set of humans with no financial conflicts of interests,

The problem is that the second it becomes an authoritative source, every spammer and marketer will start trying to game it, just like the SEO does now. Corruption is a huge problem with that approach. I'm old enough to remember how much influence yahoo categories editors had, and that many have asked for money to include you in the list, or they would use the position to simply block all the competition to their own sites. Same story is happening with Wikipedia, just it's more about personal wars and agendas instead of straight down racketeering.
No that's just poor product quality. Planned obsolescence is mostly a "meme" that confuses cost cutting by all possible means which results in very poor quality. Modern products are cheaper because they use plastics instead of metal but it also means that they are of lower quality.
Thanks, that's quite a lot of fixes.
And the rest (more important) part of his point still stands.
> but again I'd call this a different thing than really learning about cooking

This is one of the things that has baffled me a bit. I’ve really gotten into cooking lately and learned a lot about the techniques of Michelin starred chefs. Things like cooking vegetables sous vide in aromatic court bouillon followed by searing over binchotan. Or A/B testing the optimal number of days to grill a beet over low heat. Or even starch retrograding potatoes at a precise temperature in their skins followed by passing the final result through a lab grade #60 sieve for ultra smooth pomme purée.

I watched the Masterclass snippet for Thomas Keller and nothing like that is in the video. Instead, it’s “add herbs to the water and brine the chicken”. I can find this anywhere on the internet. I want the real stuff. Surely Thomas Keller doesn’t want people to think his life’s work is so easy that it can be learned overnight. It’s the same with Gordon Ramsay. Almost all of his popular videos for how to cook are different than what his restaurants actually do. He even has two YouTube videos with conflicting instructions on how to cook a steak.

I’m not sure if it’s just specific to cooking, but it seems like the experts massively tone down what they are best at for the masses, and it’s a bit disappointing because I want to learn how they actually do it in practice. My best attempt to learn is to instead dig through archive.org for old blog posts from some of these world renowned chefs before they became famous; you can often find some insight into how they actually think about cooking.

Serious Eats, Cooks Illustrated, and Chefsteps are also good resources, but I’m not sure they go quite to the obsessive level of world class cooking (Chefsteps used to, but their recent work seems scaled back a bit for some reason.)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Avik/status/1265271166916329478/p...
I recently discovered https://quantum.country/

It combines spaced repetition and article in one medium. It is too early for me to really judge its success but i like the idea.
It doesn't mean pedantic finger-wagging is an appropriate response to the question. You corrected him because you feel superior. You aren't.
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Oh, that's super cool!

I'm even more excited for your project in that case. I hope I can make the time to build a prototype, right now I'm doing the same for retool, and I feel very spoiled for good choices all of a sudden when it comes to backend abstractions.
Thanks, do you have any pointers on binary upload via CLI etc.?
Maybe somebody knowledgeable of the field can pitch in: How could this be used to assess accuracy of pronunciation in language learning contexts?
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Oh so specify the FKs from table B to A (if we were dropping and rebuilding A) in a begin/end transaction block?

Thank you
I don't read for speed nor for retention.

Your process certainly help with retention. It engage learning strategies such as active recall and generation.

Myself, I don't try to answer questions that much, but rather I like to organize information into a bunch of interconnected facts like people, events, claims, and look them up.

For example, I discovered that a professor confused which Ruska brothers invented electron microscopy. He also made claims that I struggle to find citation for with a cursory google search.

Then I goes a step further. I input the information into a spaced repetition system. In this way, a book or an article or a youtube video gradually disappear into knowledge and become part of my long term memory about things.

Intensive or incremental reading is extremely slow for sure(I probably spent 8x times as long on my notes than reading), but knowledge creation is superior.
isn't this more like "An open source Firestore alternative" right now. Do you plan to bring other features as well?

I'm a big fan of firebase and use it whenever I can. The reason it's appealing it because it's the suite of tools and how well they work together for bootstrapping (auth, firestore, storage, analytics etc). No single feature by itself is useful to me.

I would definitely switch if this atleast had (auth + db + file storage + functions).
>For a long time I was very ashamed of how few books I read, compared to what is expected from an educated person, but I'm okay with it now.

As Nabokov put it: "Incidentally, I use the word reader very loosely. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader." And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation.

I think trying to read countless of books really misses the point about reading. Reading is not about accumulating knowledge, which we constantly forget, it's to train the 'mental instruments' of reading. And for that one needs to study something deeply the same way some pianists dedicate themselves to one piece of music. If it's complex enough all that's relevant is in there.
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The macOS app stopped working for me a while back, but there's also a homebrew package for command line control which works flawlessly.
This is why I love HN. I was going to the shelving to check the cost in the Wirth book [1], and the right number was already published in HN.

[1] Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs / Niklaus Wirth.
>he didn't get in touch with Corning

He did and het got schooled on glass chemistry and composition.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40493737/how-cornings-crash-proj...
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> any historical examples where government policy other than deregulation has increased the efficiency with which a resource is used?

Not really an example, but any government policy that deals with a tragedy of the commons situation.

Take for example the NW Atlantic cod fishery: "In the summer of 1992, when the Northern Cod biomass fell to 1% of earlier levels [...]" [0] I'm sure that if Canada, the US and Greenland had come together and determined a fishing quota, those fishermen would still have a job today. Instead they were so 'efficient' that there was nothing left for them to catch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
I'm pretty sure you gain points on HN
Competing brands of hegemonic, despotic, inverted totalitarian feudal lords vying for the Iron Throne. Bezos may ultimately be the first trillionaire as Tim Cook has clearly ran out of gas and is piloting a doomed A380 dinosaur into the drink. Ultimately, I think the first trillionaire will probably be Chinese because of China's rapid and potentially-large and long-lasting ascendancy.

Ultimately, it is and always will be a powerful few who have too much against the many who have too little.
Out of curiosity, what software are you using to run and manage your mailing list?
Looks very interesting and have always been interested in this era of optimistic computing. Does anyone know a tutorial or quickstart guide on how to get started using it? I don't really have a clue what I'm doing after opening it
Yeah, I totally forgot that there is a height component in the mass as well.
Last time I read about bee's I found that bees range from totally solitary, to gregarious, to communal, to a large number of eusocial colonial species.
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This heavily resonates. I want to add a small tip to your excellent formulation:

Identify your "life long practices" and try to find room to work on them in every day, week or month cycle.

Life long practices are sometimes discovered and sometimes chosen.

Personally, I lift them from the stories I tell myself and then slowly accept them as descriptions of me. This makes it easier to iterate (i.e. fail), you draw strength from having accepted yourself as someone who does this thing and that gives you the patience to not give up as easily.

Of course this patience develops over time. For example, programming is something I have been coming back to, with increasing frequency, for multiple years now.. and it's only recently that I am able to do it every day.

Regarding getting better vs becoming easier, I think that touches on something orthogonal to patience which is being able to set reasonable goals for each session and putting the original lofty goals (that get refined rather than dismissed) to the back of your mind. This is your skill of evaluation - it develops with experience and is also a great enabler of iteration.

tl;dr

Patience :: Faith -> Determination -> Courage

Evaluation :: Experience -> Understanding -> Trust
Nitpick, but wxWidgets is for C++. wxPython is the wrapper for Python.
I don't even know where to type that in. Do you somehow access a terminal on the oculus or does that send a command from my computer to the oculus?
As an exercise, please do a back of an envelope calculation and estimate costs and features of a good (feel free to use your own definition) customer service for a mainstream video streaming platform with users ranging from 3 to 99.

You have:

- 2 billion monthly active users

- 73% of US adults

- The most-downloaded iOS app in 2018

- As of December 2018, installed on 5 billion Android devices

- One billion hours of content viewed per day

- 500 hours of content uploaded every minute

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/
As long as people are aware that their habits are being tracked and such it's a choice everyone can make for themselves.

(especially kids) not being aware of 1) clicks/behavior being tracked and 2) perhaps being manipulated by exploiting this knowledge about their behavior sounds bad to me...
Will a good demo of self-driving increase Amazon's stock by more than 0.2% ?

That's enough to justify the purchase.
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Making 3D prints stronger with titanium rods
This is an amazing coincidence! I bought the same one and I literally just finished setting it up.

If you don't mind the question, how thick is your door frame? I feel like the bar tends to slide down / put pressure downwards on the wooden frame and I'm reluctant to hang on it for fear of breaking it, not sure if it's how it's supposed to work.
The prescription system for these things is very .. unscientific? Because there's no good diagnostics other than asking the patient questions about how they feel. So it ends up like the optician's "can you see better with this or this?" except the minimum timetable for most of the medications is several months to "try".
Enjoyment only comes once you are good enough at something. At first it's a chore. Getting off the couch and going for a jog is a chore at first, a habit later and an enjoyment even later. Reading can be excruciating if you are hooked on smartphone apps and have a constant buzz in your head of all the exciting things you could be playing and watching and getting outraged about on apps and social media. But it gets better later on, and becomes natural to just shut out the noise.

Initial discomfort is okay, we cannot just always follow the path of least resistance. Especially in these times when literally billions and billions of marketing dollars are spent on keeping you off-track, assisted by the brightest scientific minds, squeezing every last percentage out of making you a miserable mess.
There are more than billion android phones.

How many corporate networks are there?

How many people use laptops and are outside their home and want to use their mobile network?
A freely available version of this paper can be found here: https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/cross-polar.pdf
> Cults and conspiracies flourished long before FB's existence, as they will after

The problem is that Facebook's algorithms are directly helping those cults grow by polarising people, as stated in the linked article:

> Worse was Facebook’s realization that its algorithms were responsible for their growth. The 2016 presentation states that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools” and that most of the activity came from the platform’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” algorithms: “Our recommendation systems grow the problem.”

I'm sure we can all agree that you can't end all cults, but surely actively encouraging their growth is a bad idea.
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More and more it seems to be devolving into:

Someone: I don't trust the establishment

Establishment fact checker: FALSE. The establishment is perfectly trustworthy.

Maybe we need to start talking about The Right to be Suspicious or something.
Maybe I misunderstood the Firebase comparison. I expected to see a browser-side database with sync similar to Minimongo in the Meteor real-time architecture. From my quick scan of the docs and github repos, it looks like the WAL replication is purely server-side and is used for a type of PubSub system for change notification. The client can subscribe to these notifications and issue subsequent queries against the server.

The PostgreSQL specific client-side fluent Query Builder is an alternative to GraphQL queries but not schema. The PubSub change notifications could be applied to a GraphQL for PostgreSQL implementation.

Unless I’m missing something, change notification is not the same as pushed sync in Firebase or Meteor.
PiHole 5 introduced the same features but there used to be a difference in the past.
I have the same experience. I like them but will stop using them because I apparently do 900k queries a month, for some odd reason...
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The wxPython demo (which spawns many apps that show use of many widgets, including complex ones), is very good too. And is a non-trivial wxPython app itself. Separately downloadable from wxPython itself, last I used it. All apps come with source (of course), good for learning from and adapting to your own app needs.
Nah it just means too many people think they are "smart" while not applying their supposed edge to get any practical thing done better.

Money is just one example. The baseline is "if you are so smart why how come you don't have a better life", this can be more money, a better job, more time for your children, a hotter wife for some.

If you don't like the materialistic versions, My personal version of it is "if you are so smart why are you complaining so much instead of fixing your problems"..
'Biosensors' are a really cool blend of fields, and manufactured for more ordinary things like pH measurement too, but they (not SARS-CoV-2 ones specifically obviously) seem to me to be completely unavailable to the hobbyist/anyone that doesn't want to have a meeting to discuss a small sample of 100k units to get started.

Is there just insufficient market for them to make them more available, or is fabrication really expensive, or something else?

I asked about it recently, but no traction or comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22996014
> I don't think Facebook is the problem here.

Facebook's researchers seemed to think otherwise:

> Worse was Facebook’s realization that its algorithms were responsible for [extremist groups'] growth. The 2016 presentation states that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools” and that most of the activity came from the platform’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” algorithms: “Our recommendation systems grow the problem.”
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Yep people like that are who the rest of us are being held hostage too.
This is so true i don't understand the downvotes
I've recently been playing with firebase and looking for a non-google alternative. Looking forward to giving this a go.
Because of the mistaken belief that doing something 'productive' is better than doing something you enjoy.

Somewhere along the line lots of people decided that if they aren't running everyone else is running past them.

The runners then posted endless blog posts about how they are faster runners and run for longer and it became it's old vicious circle.

I opted out, Yesterday I spent two hours sat watching a working harbour (with the odd walk to get a coffee) - the boats coming and going, the change on the surface of the water as clouds floated past, the gulls swooping around and it was amazing - after that I spent a couple of hours riding around aimlessly on a motorcycle visiting villages I'd only seen as a name on a map before and running across interesting old buildings/memorials (socially distancing) and then headed home as the sun set.

It was the closest I've felt to at peace in the last six months, nowhere to go, nothing that needed to be done.

You don't have to be on a treadmill all your life, running without a destination is just running.
By limiting charging to 80%, battery will degrade less. Even farmers need to eat and pee. Battery can be charged to 80% in 20 minutes.

Also, it's possible to use extended swapable batteries for such cases.
Doesn't SF have wide, neatly planned streets and great weather all year? I can't imagine these cars driving on some narrow European roads from the medieval times in the winter
> The fact MasterClass ranks first in Google for "what is a shallot?" is pretty surprising.

No more surprising than this MasterClass ad from the nytimes. We know companies hire PR firms to get their products in articles/ads in newspapers and favorable "SEO" rankings.
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Where is the encryption key? Is it possible for WriteNext to access the writing?