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Banning discussion of fraught topics doesn't just affect the discussion about the fraught topics themselves, it also leads to biased and often meaningless discussion of every single other topic where the fraught stuff is an important factor. To have a meaningful discussion you need to be able to challenge base assumptions, you cannot do that here.
I made the same error - an alarmed scan of news sites resulted.
Conversely - why aren’t any other countries investing as much in space research and development?
Yes, I agree. But I think the GH dominance can become something of a problem, similar to other big tech near-monopolies.

I hope for more decentralization of forges in the future in a more open market, and I have my eye on ForgeFed as means to achieve that.

https://forgefed.peers.community
Thanks, looks useful. Sorry didn't see this earlier.
Related to the article's form more than its topic, but "has humbly reëmerged, wanting to reëngage": I'm used to seeing "trémas" in French used for the very purpose of avoiding the usual sound made by two neighboring letters, but I didn't know it was a thing in English.
I think the entire theory about the intervals is overcomplicated and too much of an overgeneralization at the same time. If users could just have buttons with "110% of last interval", "+2 days", "1 week" that would be the best way. I've written a web app like that many years ago but js development has since outpaced my motivation to keep up.

Steps is just manual entry of the first intervals, right? That's very static.
Personally, I tend to have trouble controlling my mint.
I think there are several aspects to this. First good athletes often have very good body awareness, but also and this is quite important as well, they are used to working and practicing with only seeing small immediate gains. In my experience many people who take up dancing see very experienced dancers and expect they will be able to do this after one or two courses. They then get frustrated, when they discover it's difficult and simply give up.
* Unless consanguineal
Only super carriers and subs are nuclear powered. Everything else is conventional.
You do not need large numbers you need organization and will. They have both. The ONLY reason feds are there is because this Antifa “squad” been attacking the federal courthouse. Why they are doing that? Well to get feds to come so they can have their: “fight the gestapo” moment. Of course it is nothing like gestapo or nkvd(but Americans are ignorant of nkvd and antifas ideology is so close to Stalinism I guess calling feds nkvd would not work). But whatever you can turn against Trump right? And bring dictatorship of proletariat while you are at it
How do you quantify the risk, and where is the line drawn?
which company was it that randomly shot down machines in production to make sure the system would be resilient enough?
Re conbee2:

Checkout https://phoscon.de/en/conbee2
You can control a wide range of Zigbee devices without installing a gateway. From Philips Hue or Ikea lamps to plant sensors from Aliexpress.

List of supported devices: https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin/wik...

You would integrate the devices with an OpenSource HomeKit or HomeBridge implementation on a Raspberry or similar into your home.
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The average price for a DPC membership is about $65/month. In most states, the doctor can even dispense prescriptions at or near wholesale cost.

The idea is that higher utilization of primary care results in lower hospitalizations and specialist visits, which are very expensive for all parties. This has actually been proven in studies comparing total health spend by large employers before and after adding DPC for their employees. So spend a bit more in primary care, get high touch service, and lower cost in the long run.

Medicaid, btw, is our social safety net health insurance program. Most Americans have insurance though their employer which is usually a high deductible plan. Meaning, you have to spend thousands of dollars before insurance will start helping to cover the cost of healthcare for you.
Even in places that are willing to accept some amount of spread, testing allows people to make informed decisions before doing particularly risky things. I have friends who for example take a test just before visiting their grandparents - if we lived in an area with week-long turnarounds, they wouldn't be able to do that, and would have to choose between a significant risk of infecting them or leaving them isolated for months on end.
Fake news by people who have never been to Canada.
> And if you're going to treat me like the enemy, willing to trade my freedoms away, for your safety, then don't be surprised if I'm going to treat you like an enemy too.

Yes of course, this is normal. And that's why I am actively working for a legal framework to coerce people into staying at home in these cases. I highlight the word "legal" as otherwise it will be chaos.

> That's a really poor analogy b/c vaccination is the best evidence-based strategy we have for fighting viruses and it's a one time cost to pay.

In some cases we need to be proactive without string evidence. In the case of COVID-19 this is not a matter of being psychologically comfortable (as opposed to, say, religion where anything goes for me, at least until it does not directly hits others). It is a matter to use that until we have better solutions.

> In any case, I'd rather catch the virus.

This is your choice. Please just make sure to keep it to yourself and also to realize that you will be using a medical facility overloaded by people who not only caught it willingly, but also those ones who did not.

But no matter what I really do hope you will not catch it :)
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I'd say go with HN. As a NodeJS developer, I found books to be lacking of the latest JS frameworks and modules. Books have been obsoleted since the internet was created 15 years ago.
True, but i wasn't referring to exploitation of the ecology on the Moon - of course, there is no ecology on Moon. I was referring to the ecological destruction on earth (consumer culture and profit motives driving us to the brink of ecological collapse on earth). There are other studies where impacts of the first world countries and their economies on the planet is well documented, but i do not wish to enter into that conversation as such.

Countries are thinking of planets as resources to be extracted and profit from, which in itself is incorrect, imo.

This is a kinder way of living in harmony with our nature (again imo) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lc_dlVrg5M
Google uses a proprietary backend with the primary front end written to look like a clone of the perforce tool p4. The newer frontend that's getting investment is mercurial based. There also exists unofficial/deprecated support for a git frontend.
It’s hard to fault what you are saying - with over 2 million active cases in the US it’s a truely massive task to contemplate.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
You probably have that perception because cases that you dislike stand out like sore thumbs, while all the other title edits escape notice. If you think about it, that pretty well guarantees the feeling "it seems to be applied with little regards for its usefulness"—because all the "useful" edits are by definition excluded.

You can use petercooper's title edit tracker to see some of them: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/. It doesn't show all of them, and it doesn't distinguish between edits by submitters and edits by mods. Probably we should just publish the official list—I feel like title editing is the most consistent and easily defensible thing we do.
I really don't get the rush to try to travel to/colonize Mars. Mars is a really awful place for humans to live or visit, and it would be incredibly expensive to try.

Why not wait 50-100 years when we have safe, compact fusion reactors, have fast enough engines to reach Mars in under a month, and have an economic imperative to harvest the asteroid belt? We gain nothing meaningful now--we're just fulfilling the fantasy of some middle aged men.
The common cold and flu come from
domesticated animals every year.

Pretty much all serious pandemics started in some other species of mammals, and then transferred to humans. Examples: SARS, bird flu, ebola, hiv, spanish flu.

(I agree that blaming Chinese culture for the problem is xenophobic nonsense though.)
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Curiosity is powered by an RTG and has no solar cells. Spirit and Opportunity where solar powered, but where expected to only operate 90 days due to dust build up on the solar cells. Solar pretty much doesn't make any sense on the moon or Mars due to the environments.
This video has edited the children's mouths and the teachers. This is an intentional edit when they speak. It's really trippy to watch. Because it's fairly good in some instances but...also terrifying.
Sure, it’s theoretically possible. I don’t actually know anyone out there who’s using it, I’m curious do you?
We studied this poem in high school after having studied the Odyssey (where Ulysses gets home) and the Divine Comedy (where Ulysses tells the story after he travels past Hercules' columns).

So this poem filled the middle (staying in Ithaca until leaving) missing part!

In addition to being a fantastic poem in itself, it felt great to see how a whole story could develop through different authors over so many centuries.
The moon and Mars do not have an ecology to destroy.

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of")[A] is a branch of biology[1] concerning interactions among organisms and their biophysical environment, which includes both biotic and abiotic components.

Furthermore, from a thought experiment point of view: if we jump a thousand or two thousand years into the future, it’s hard to imagine that the Earth retains individual nations but the rest of the universe is managed by a UN-like organization. The moon, maybe, but beyond that seems highly unlikely.
There is a lot of speculation in your comment - I thought we were talking facts here.
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You are probably tired of hearing this kind of advice. But it is very important to start writing work with specific ideas. This requires an outline of the essay. It doesn't take much time, you just need to open a new Word document and write down the ideas that you want to discuss in order.
Isn’t standing up when answering the norm? I grew up in ex-USSR in 90s/00s and that’s what we did. It felt totally normal and giving kinda a 1-to-1 connection to teacher instead of being a random voice in a classroom.

As for “helpful to adults”, it’s not exactly Soviet thing. All cultures/nations that were forced under Soviet rule had that mentality. And still have to big extent. Although there’s less and less automatic respect to adults/elders in last decade or two, it’s still there.
You can’t fart in China without CCP knowing exactly who did it. Nefarious acts would be extremely hard to get away with it.
Yes, but other freshwater things (crocodile, frog) aren't bad. Shellfish is easily the worst. Ferment seafood ala belachan or SE Asian fish sauce and it's basically the worst thing I've ever smelled.

My personal belief is that I am extremely sensitive to one of the chemicals that shows up as fish gets old. I smell it much better and earlier than most people so even "fresh" fish smells like it should be thrown out. On the plus side, I can tell you which shops have the freshest fish :) One near us had nearly no smell, so it must have been good.

One of the stories my wife remembers is when we asked at a Chinese restaurant about whether the stir fried green beans had any seafood (they often have rice-sized dried shrimp). We were told no. I smelled it coming when they were a few tables away from us still, but the others at the table couldn't smell a thing and had to look very closely to confirm.

Editing to add: I'm not unadventurous or anything of the sort - I even like durian! But people seem to constantly think I just need to get used to an unfamiliar flavour.
Fake news from bad companies. I find the complete opposite to true. I'm hiring more than ever, devs are learning quickly, and projects are getting done at record pace.
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That's a cool setup. Surprised that he went with a prebuilt though given that he clearly weighs all options carefully. ie thinks carefully about the hdmi adapter off ebay but doesn't pick a case that doesn't annoy him
Minor nits:

1. "they all inherit from stdClass" -- this is simply not true

2. callables should've mentioned anonymous functions

3. a special typed value can't be casted to anything. -- this is not true, NULLs can be casted to anything (it becomes 0, "", array() ) and even resources can be casted to anything with dubious utility value.

4. casting should mention the intval() , strval() , doubleval() functions

5. php does not support explicit type definition in variable declaration -- PHP 7.4 however supports typed properties. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2
Going to get pretty crowded at the poles, no?
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It's not - the US is pursuing an international treaty called the Artemis Accords to clarify rights and obligations, which aren't laid out in detail in the Outer Space Treaty.

If the drafting is completed under the Trump Administration, I suspect it will be tilted towards a free-for-all, but it will need buy-in at least from the Europeans and Japanese (who are building and funding big chunks of the new US moon effort) who will want some form of multilateral control.
If you are asking the question, books.

Once you can read a book and find mistakes or contradictions, HN.
Usually people are not that blind. They pay others for their company when they make these mistakes.

Is a guy getting on hook for child support being scammed?

Is a guy on hook for alimony being scammed? I guess he also at some point was living under illusion that this relationship will last a lifetime.

I think personal matters like this are not worth going after, it's people making decisions based on evidences someone else provides them. Now if they lost the money, it's their own fault.
Those two spots could have gone to students who actually were more qualified and talented. If this is done on a large scale many gifted students cannot get the education they deserve and need, so the world loses out on lots of talents hence making the world worse.
It isn’t 1% for everyone

True. If you're younger (really, under 60) and healthy it's much less than 1%.

1/3% of those who didn’t die seem to have debilitating persistent problems

Unclear if you mean 1/3 of all infections, which is far too high, or 1 to 3 percent, which is possibly reasonable, although again it's going to be skewed towards older and unhealthy people.

even if everything is fine with you, you can pass it to someone who passes it to someone who dies from your unwillingness to act for the greater good

At some point people have to be responsible for themselves. If you're severely allergic to peanuts, then that's something that you have to watch out for; we don't ban peanuts for the general public. If you're at high risk for COVID then you should take appropriate precautions, but it's unreasonable to demand that everyone else be forbidden from seeing their friends and family for months or years.
I agree with you, in my experience teaching salsa students who had martial arts experience had very good body control and often did much better than others.

However one aspect that is missing in martial arts or yoga is musicality, i.e. in addition to synchronising with your own body and a partner you also need to synchronise to the music. This is one aspect that some of the aforementioned students struggled with, if they did not have previous other experience with music.
First of all, Oracle and IBM have been part of Java world since the early days with their own Java implementations, and Oracle even jumped on Sun's boat regarding those Java based thin client workstations that were all the rage around 1998.

Secondly, with Sun you would never had gotten AOT, because they saw it as something that 3rd party vendors like Oracle and IBM should care about, they were fully into "JIT or bust", and MaximeVM would have followed the same path as SPOTs, instead of turning into GraalVM.
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Does anyone know why sequencing is not used to QC such seeds before releasing them?
If they had caught a European with a pet bird I doubt they’d be trying to claim it was evidence of an international bioterrorism ring.
Tangentially,

CIA and IB (Indian Intelligence) lost such Plutonium RTG powered listening device at a Himalayan peak in 1965 used for SIGINT against China. Further expeditions to retrieve the device resulted in failure and later they installed another such device in 1967[1] which was supposedly taken out in 1968.

[1]https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/3QfYqLadggrbnrn41H0mAJ/The-...
Another format that I find instructive:

http://tractatus-online.appspot.com/Tractatus/jonathan/index...
Because they don't have more money than sense?
Space research and development has indeed given us some very useful outcomes - no doubt. Also, other countries are into space research and development too, worried that this could put other able countries in a race that could result in bad outcomes.

We have plenty of problems to solve here on earth. Is technology only about solving for curiosity of what is possible ? Or is technology about solving real problems of energy, minimal impact to the environment etc ?

The ocean cleanup project is a good example of solving problems for humanity here on earth. Now that we managed to dump enormous amounts of plastic into our waterways and eventually into oceans. There are other interesting problems which beg technological solutions too.
> Important to notice that casting an array with numeric keys into an object is valid, but one can't dereference its value because property names may not start with numbers.

Not true, actually. The (admittedly obscure) syntax to access a property beginning with a numeral is `$obj->{0}`. Usually when this happens it's because someone was trying to be clever with JSON.
It's not just C++, nor is it just because of assumptions of the underlying implementation. This is a direct result of type-safety. It would never be "safe" to do the following, regardless of the language:

std::vector<Parent*> children_as_parents = *reinterpret_cast<std::vector<Parent*>*>(&children);

So let's say I have a X = list<Puppy> and Puppy IS-An Animal.

Then I call append_random_animal(list<Animal> arg) with argument X. If it were true that list<Puppy> IS-A list<Animal> that should be safe, right? (it isn't). But then that function, operating on list<Animal>, could quite legally append something else, like an Alligator which IS-An Animal to the list which is a list<Animal>. But that argument was actually X, a list of Puppies you'd end up with a list of mostly puppies and some alligators which shouldn't be possible. That could get very messy if we later pass that list X to pet(list<Puppy>) when it contains an element of type Alligator...

This is a form of the covariance and contravariance concept.

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

This is not specific to C++. It's a fundamental rule of polymorphism.

Arrays, Lists, and containers can be covariant (the authors expectation) only when they are read-only. They can be contravariant when they are write-only, which would be pretty unusual. So a mutable list must be invariant.

The fact that C++ does not provide type-safe immutable, read-only containers that are covariant is probably due to the difficulty of representing such.
A caveat - solar works on the Moon in certain circumstances (polar locations with sunlight most of the time), and on Mars with a bit of maintenance (Spirit and Opportunity lasted much longer than expected because of wind cleaning dust off the panels).

But yes, to your general point, nuclear power has serious advantages.
How do you think these technologies get developed? Going to Mars is the impetus for developing this tech.
It’s the the “bro” in ”weird flex, bro”, which is US English slang meaning “that’s an impressive display of strength which I also find to be bizarrely convoluted”.
You've actually asked quite a lot of questions here, and the answers can be modeled fairly simply using "heat transfer" fundamentals. Additionally, it's good to know that heat can lost in space by converting to photons and emitting those photons from the object as "blackbody" (colloquially "infrared") radiation. Light/radiation/photons can travel through a vacuum so that's how heat leaves an object in space, and how some heat leaves earth.

Your thermos example is a bit confusing because it's a thin wall. For understanding heat transfer it's better to use medium thickness walls. It's hard for me to come up with a real-world example that we'd have intimate familiarity with because we can't typically reach inside a solid material with our fingers.

I'd like to point out this illustration[0] though, which is used in many university textbooks for introduction to transport phenomena (the study of mass and heat flows). If you have a near-perfect insulator and expose one side to heat, the other side will remain cool. Between the one side and the other, the temperature must gradually change from hot to cold.

The earth is a pretty big insulator, so it keeps most of the core's heat in, and makes the surface much cooler than the core. Different layers of the earth have different properties, so the "steepness" of that transition from hot to cold changes suddenly at certain depths where the earths material changes. You can see Earth's temperature gradient here[1].

Definitely, if Earth absolutely could not get rid of its heat, eventually all the layers would be the same temperature. However, enough is lost to space each year to keep the surface "cool". It's actually a very, very, very tiny amount of the heat that is lost to space. The temperature of the core is 5000K-7000K but has only lost 250K over the past 4.5 billion years. Evidently the earth is a particularly good insulator.

I used to help drill pretty deep holes in earth, going down 5,000-10,000 feet or more. Temperature of the earth at that depth could be actually quite hot, like 250-350 degF.

0: (Image of a simple thermal profile through a medium thickness wall of uniform material) https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B97801241589170...

1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Te...

2: (Energy balance of earth) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget

3: (Solar energy balance of earth) https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/energy
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You need to open a connection, which requires user action. When both devices are already connected to the cloud, the synchronisation can be done "transparently", which is what users today have come to expect.

Another reason is that if you still want to sync with the cloud, you need two synchronisation systems that have to be kept in sync too.
I would actually argue that the ecologically-minded should push for off-world resource extraction and industrial production, as it would allow for the Earth to return to a more harmonic state.
> Maybe I’m paranoid, but I decided to rip up the plants and throw them away.

Now they can start growing in a landfill somewhere.
Fukushima with all of its single digit deaths? I don't mean to trivialise but if we could see radiation we wouldn't be as scared.

You can't do nuclear on the cheap but we do know how to do it safely.
Is there something which they can transform on the moon to get fuel or something?

Using those nuclear power plants?
> at the 98 Cent Store, which became the Dollar Tree sometime around 2000

That's inflation for ya.