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One has to come to the conclusion that it was inevitable. The simplest fission bomb is trivially simple to describe once the physics are known.

Not trivial to make without the resources of a major industrial nation, but the actual simplest mechanism is essentially just sufficiently purifying two lumps of a metal of sufficient size and quickly smashing them together.

You don’t get modern technology, say the transistor, without nuclear inevitability.
This is probably the most thorough public explanation of what we're doing over at Oxide.
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I use hckrnews.com as my “front end” for HN, so this doesn’t happen for me - it shows submissions in chronological order.
This is a problem and I agree. Most of our portfolio companies are concerned that COVID is temporary and are seeking alternative business models in parallel. This is because institutional investors, who will ultimately end up funding the companies down the road due to Reg C funding limited to $1M/yr, continue to tell startups that need to have alternative business models in case a vaccine is approved. To some extent, trying to move away from the deeply entrenched institutional investment model is an ouroboros.
It has been asked here: https://github.com/questdb/questdb/issues/261. Definitely on our road map. It would be good if you could share your story why you need arrow?
Assuming we could convince individuals and the public, is there any feasible scenario where Americans would resolve to work hard, live briskly, save and defer 'wanton' type behavior for 24-months? And simultaneously allow the government to spend less and perhaps a one-time 2 tax as a way to save the fiscal system of the US.

The only way it would work is if we could somehow dramatically the improve the lives of say 100 million people. (Ignoring all the common objections and fallacies.)
The original quote is "Despite all the complaints about the nastiness of their mods." The original was not granting as true the mods being nasty, just that the complaints were real.
I wonder where the insurance companies get all this money...
We moved to a small town some years ago and I agree with you. A lot of our "leisure" time is taken up with our somewhat massive garden and food processing in general, which we enjoy. We are also building a new greenhouse, fixing fences, etc. and we've converted our garage to a combination gym/woodworking shop, which makes for the occasionally dusty workout.

If I worked at my job less, I'd have more time for these productive activities and I certainly wouldn't pine away searching for "meaning" in my day job, that's for sure.
How did it profit from the Usenet archives? Genuinely curious.
I don’t think I necessarily disagreed with that.

The WHO saying it’s one big wave, is a guess though.
"if you need a tool, buy the cheapest one you can find. If it’s inadequate, or breaks, or you use it a lot, then buy the best one you can afford"

I don't know how I feel about this... The unsaid thing here is that you will end up landfilling the broken or inadequate tool and buy twice what you need.

These days, if I'm going to put money into buying material goods, I feel they have to meet at least a minimal "this isn't going to end up in landfill after the first time I use it" bar.

A lot of cheap tools barely meet this level, sadly...
> In other words: people want more meaningful work, not merely to have less meaningless work.

The truly frustrating thing about this is sometimes all that takes is keeping your employees informed. My current job's work feels very empty because management simply will not update us on the state of negotiations and sales unless we do something just short of cornering them while holding socks stuffed with soap. Meanwhile, they've promised more transparency multiple times.

This is only a five person company, so it's not like we're asking for much (or, really, anything at all -- this should be a normal and expected feature of a small startup).

It seems like such an easy way to keep your employees knowledgeable about what their work is actually going towards and without that, it's just a purposeless slog. I need a new job.
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Well, you picked a great username to make an incorrect assertion with.
Do you measure performance vs k/shakti?
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I got down voted below for expressing a similar sentiment, in harsher terms.
> Things like logging just could not be done.

Had that problem at an ad tech company before. We just did sampling so that 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 requests would get logging.

It definitely made me wonder how many web servers out there have their performance determined by the rate at which logs can be written to disk.
Not really. We can't even get people to wear masks. Also, spending less during a recession is a good way to deepen the recession.
Good question.

I would say, that if there are large scale protests which are interrupted with brutality from government entities, burning down government buildings is not a wise action, but also not an unreasonable one -- from an ethical point of view.
Why should there be only one? I get financial advisor emails every week that pretty much always tell me to diversify where I put my money. If I were an independent nation that needed reserve currency, I wouldn't want to bet it all on the US, China, or Europe. They've all got their own risks ahead. And there's no clear winner for the next decade or two to get on the good side of.
The biggest lending institution in the junk bond market is now the federal reserve, so traditional notions of risk and profit are out the window.
Even if this were the case - is it appropriate for the officer to not administer medical care for someone dying underneath his knee?
Nice! It's good to see other examples. I am working on a new product (sadly spare time right now) and my first module that is a simple risk registry that will hopefully make it easier/less work for organizations and their boards to manage/review their risks.
I apologize for not finding a way to frame that more neutrally. I did not reply to your comment because I think you are free to do as you see fit for yourself. Me providing the link to someone else was not intended to be some passive-aggressive dismissal of your choice.

The Cleveland Clinic is a fairly big name, respected clinic. I think of it as a reliable source. I was just trying to sum up a lengthy piece briefly, which is always fraught with potential problems.

I do a lot of making my own health decisions of that sort. I'm routinely attacked for saying anything at all about my thinking about my own health. I wish it were easier to have meaningful discourse of that sort in a responsible fashion without people acting like "You are evil incarnate and practicing medicine without a license for leaving comments on the internet." I have no idea how we get there from here.
Because we don't do anything special in the summer and there is very little flu compared with "flu season." Here is data, just select the US: https://apps.who.int/flumart/Default?ReportNo=1

edit: In fact, take a look at Brazil or India, places that are hot year round. They have very few instances of the flu no matter the time of year. This shows that it doesn't spread much in warm weather. We already know that covid-19 does spread in warm weather.
I was at a startup that failed, I was actually the last non-founder to leave. Not because I didn't see the problems, but because I was the last one of us to find a new job. Everyone began looking for a new opportunity around 6-12 months before our runway actually ran out.

Here were some of the issues:

Over time, the information flow from our founders degraded in quality and quantity. When you're at a company of 5-10 people, everyone should know everything.

When engineers left they weren't replaced. Tech transfer was just a formality, and projects were shelved entirely. If a startup isn't growing, it's dying.

The founders attempted the same monetization strategy for about 2 years with zero success. Not as in "unsustainable" but literally, not a dime!

So TL;DR: if your company is shrinking, non-founders kept in the dark, and nothing seems to be changing in strategy when no one is paying you, the company is probably going to die and you should move on. However, staying around until the end of your runway will lead to a glowing reference for future job searches.
A trivial solution to this dilemma seems to be to consider stack overflow a place for the former, and have a system in place where you can vote specifically to elevate a question to the latter category. (god knows they don't mind adding stuff, with comments, votes on comments, votes on questions, on answers, votes on closing questions, votes on reopening them... – surely yet another kind of vote wouldn't bother them!)

Such an elevation may require some small edits. This adds all sorts of benefits:

1. Given that it is now clear that the question is moving from 'this answers the question asked by the original poster' to 'this is now like a blog post, generally useful information that should score highly on google', it is completely fine to edit the question and turn it into something that no longer entirely matches the original asker. I'd even go so far as to clone the question, and leave the real question unmolested.

2. The question (or, better yet, an answer) can be marked as obsoleted or outdated. There are huge swaths of questions on SO that have a ton of votes and an answer that was fantastic in the past, but is now flat out misleading or wrong, but it seems both onerous to begin the path of finding a few thousand people to downvote it, as well as 'mean' to the poster of that answer, and tricky for the historic purposes of the internet (imagine a fix in some source code has a comment that links to this answer!) - and for similar reasons, editing the answer so that it is nothing like the original answer is also flat out bizarre. It'd be so much better if it was possible to vote an answer as 'obsolete' or 'outdated'. But that doesn't work if SO is at odds with itself and at once a repo of common questions AND a specific question->specific answer forum.

3. Given that an SO community now has a presumably much smaller set of questions-with-answers that have been elevated to 'commonly asked question with great curated answers', they can 'police' their fiefdom of curated general knowledge vastly better, with mods and random passersby invited to ocassionally inspect one of these curated answers and see if it still seems useful, applicable, and correct in the current day and age. It also becomes far more feasible to browse through the entirety of the curated questions list.
Just a guess, but maybe better isolation of the the most vulnerable (so the people getting sick now are younger), and more knowledge about how to treat those who end up hospitalized.
This just means that the R0 is higher during the winter months, immunity will still accumulate to the point where the virus will be contained to small clusters here and there.
I fail to understand how an open roadmap would make you less likely to buy a product. If you compare two products with the same current feature set but one has an open roadmap and one has none - are you saying physical access to a roadmap would deter you from buying that product and instead buy a product that has no roadmap?
Why is there a monopoly in anything? It's convenient and tends to happen naturally via small scale local optimizations.
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Rent the jackhammer, don't buy it. (Unless you actually need a jackhammer somewhat regularly.)

You can rent tools at Home Depot for considerably less than the cost of buying them. If you're only going to need them once, rent. (I did this with a hammer drill. It was absolutely worth it, just to punch four holes in concrete. But I've only needed to do that once, and I don't seem likely to need to do it again. So why buy?

Same thing with something like an RV. I can rent one for $1000, or I can buy one for $50,000. I've gone twice. I might have gone another time or two if I had one. At that point, the math for owning doesn't make sense. (But it feels different. Renting an RV feels like throwing money away, and buying feels like investing in an asset. It isn't rational, but that's how it feels to me.)

But if I were going to tour the country for a year, buying an RV might make a lot of sense. If you're going to use it, buy, and buy decent quality. (I don't want "the worst RV" for touring the country for a year.) If you're going to use it infrequently, rent. If you don't know if you're going to use it, rent a time or two, and find out if you're going to use it.
Hard to go wrong with a classic like the 870 though...
I love that man. Brilliant mind. I have lived a Digital Nomad lifestyle for 2 years and when I was in homestays on the countryside, I always felt relaxed and blessed. Just some chickens roaming around, some fruit you could pick. Simple life.

Big polluted cities like Bangkok and Penang drove me nuts.

One owner of one of those simple homestay farms quit his farming activities and became a taxi driver, on Lombok (Indonesia). Lombok just got a brand-new airport and they expect more tourists coming in from Bali eventually. The man became a taxi driver to make more money for "a better life".

I get it. Everybody wants a shot to live "the dream" and you gotta start somewhere, but --> you don't know what you have til it's gone.
How did it profit from the Usenet archives? Genuinely curious.

Dejanews was the seed material for Google Groups, any profit derived from that (ads) was from content posted to Usenet by people who never intended for it to be used for that.
If you found a human at Google instead of a bot, it would probably say their only obligation is to their shareholders.

It's probably not a good idea to depend on a public company to steward an important community.

Does the Internet Archive have copies of all the old stuff at least?
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Also, the money is not printed in a vacuum. We are in the midst of a terrible economic crisis. If the downturn becomes much worse we will need to contend with deflation rather than inflation above and beyond the 2% target. These are basic principles of an elastic money supply.
Are there bikes with the aesthetic style of Harleys that are better? I for one really dislike modern looking bikes.
A "legacy" web app that happens to perform at the same scale as YouTube. Maybe there's nothing wrong with using simple, battle-tested technologies after all?
Am I the only one who does not care about Dark Mode? I find it neat that someone cares about it enough to mention it is missing, over lots of other features that are missing.

I see it in lots of products and kind of ignored it, but is this a priority for users?
FWIW I agree with you entirely, but I suspect we fit comfortably into the "approximately no one" set that I mentioned :)
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Fair question. I think Chauvin knew he wasn't restraining airflow with his knee, and probably assumed Floyd was lying to get out of it.
It's part of the demo, Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate - https://robinsloan.github.io/perfect-edition/build/web/index... - which I'm reading now. The creator of the project is Robin Sloan, fiction author; I liked his book "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore."
I’m in the “WHO is ineffective at best” camp, but I agree with you here.

They have been conservative in their statements. I don’t recall them ever saying “it doesn’t spread person-to-person” - I do recall them saying “there is no conclusive evidence of person-to-person transmission”. At the time, given the evidence they had, that was true. From their perspective saying that it did in fact spread person-to-person and later concluding it didn’t would have been much worse; I assume they take this approach to protect their reputation of being certain before making a public statement.

The problem seems to be that lay people seem to expect WHO to be on the bleeding edge and providing comprehensive information on the latest investigation and data. That’s not what they do. They report the findings, and that’s very different.
Tried this with a bunch of sports, but the change was most obvious in skiing. Used to rent, when I bought my first pair of boots, I went from a literal "Beginner" to "Intermediate".
Balance and coordination went up 5X.
What is your approximate age group for your friends and are all your friends in the same industry? Just curious about what things are like.
^this is a really underrated statement.

Coming from “sysadmin”/tech/keeper of the lights on: there is no win at the bottom line. Keeping the lights on always costs money, they always wish it could cost less (except when inter-company bragging about having the new hot tool), and when you’re doing your best possible job they will forget you exist. If something happens on your watch they can just as easily assume you have not been working at all.

One thing I’ve distilled from all this: Always keep at least some focus on how much your work costs vs how much value it’s providing.
No urgent reason. I've noticed a decent of technologies have adopted it in some way or another. I could imagine it being useful for integrating QuestDB with existing internal systems which use Arrow for its in-memory/interchange format.

Appreciate the issue link :)
The police responsible were arrested long ago. Even Trump called this a murder and condemned it right away.

This is still going on and over 20 people connected to the protests have died since then. There was a retired cop shot while protecting his friend's store. There was a young girl killed for no reason outside a Wal-Mart. There was a burned body found long after the fact in one of the buildings burned during the riots.

The question isn't whether things should change or whether this is a problem but what to change and how to change it and whether that change will really make things better.
Hard to go wrong with a classic like the 870 though... only a few good options at that price point that are easy to find.
Agreed, I was just noting that if non-parents end up making a lot more than parents (who are working raising the next generation of citizens), the amount of tax deduction is a way to share the burden. Fairness is subjective.
This is editorialized (actual title: "Some Usenet groups suspended in Goggle Groups"), or on LWN[1] "Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google" (basically the same content)

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/
Every few versions I would check Firefox on macOS just to see if they make any progress with battery drain.

And... Firefox 79 with one active tab is taking 6x more energy than Safari with 20+ tabs.

https://imgur.com/a/LyhnbKZ

Maybe it is better on other OSes, but on macOS nothing beats Webkit in terms of performance.

Not to mention the home page bloat - Firefox is starting to look like cnn of browsers.
Paradox of thrift. If everyone saves, there's nothing to do hard work on, so currency inflates.

The approach only works if we can use our work to stockpile durable goods.
Respectfully, Could you link to the documents you were referring to?

I feel like a trend I see is folks say to go out on their own to find some document that proves their point. There are several statements by the WHO on those dates, and I do not know which one you mean.

I have unfortunately seen the trend also where someone does link a source that is very lengthy and same thing. In one case, the source actually contradicted the person citing it.

I am not accusing you of that, merely it makes your argument much more credible when it is easy to see where you cited your sources.
>> Her trafficker, who was seen in the videos raping the child, was identified using surveillance footage of him at a 7-Eleven where he was spotted with his victim

If I understand this correctly, both the victim and the trafficker / rapist were found because the video was on PornHub, right?

It's super scummy that they didn't take it down after, and you have to wonder how many people got further into these "interests" because of the footage, but this little detail complicates my feelings on how this should be handled. Would they have ever rescued the victim or charged the perpetrator if this had been on darker channels only?
In the middle of a pandemic, similar restrictions apply to everyone. These restrictions are generally not based on citizenship but residency. Everybody is encouraged to stay where they are (or were, when it broke out).

US citizens residing abroad are not being treated any worse than they were: it's just more difficult to move from country A to country B anywhere in the world for anybody right now (except within the EU/EEA, which largely reopened). US citizens are not being singled out, and while they're also not being given preferential treatment, it is hard to imagine they would have been had this happened anytime in the past, say 50 years ago. The situation is just largely unprecedented.

It is inaccurate to compare the situation of travellers now and in the past, when travel was much less common and less affordable, and thus the population flows were much smaller: this is the first pandemic of the global era, so of course the restrictions are going to impact more people and be more noticeable than any similar measures implemented in the past. Arguably it has to be so to control the spread of the virus.

On a general note, the US passport was never a great choice for people who mostly live outside the US due to the cumbersome tax regulations one has to endure as part of being a US citizen but, it can be argued, it could remain so precisely due to the power the US enjoys to compel other countries to enforce its laws, as demonstrated with e.g. FATCA [1]. Thus there has always been a steady outflow of millionaires looking for greener pastures. [2]

Separately, the US passport was also never highly-ranked for people who just wanted to travel around as visitors: in that category it is easily outclassed by e.g. Singapore or Japan, which let you visit China or (in the latter case) India visa-free. [3] Still, that was never the reason for it being so prized: the US has likely the best career opportunities in the world, so people want the citizenship and the passport that comes with it to get inside the country, not to stay away from it and go elsewhere. If they do travel abroad however, the US passport still generally affords unrivalled consular protection in most of the world. And nothing really changes in this department just because of the pandemic.

I'm really surprised to see an article like this from what purportedly aspires to be the Canadian BBC. It's really quite poorly-researched for such an alarmist tone.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

2. https://www.cbsnews.com/media/5-citizens-who-left-the-us-to-...

3. https://www.henleypassportindex.com/
this. i'm sure qdb is a great product, but i can't even stomach reading long lines and walls of text...
How?

"Preferences > Search > Search Bar" allows you to add back the separate bar. And you can toggle search suggestions in the address bar as well. I don't see how that breaks anything or that it is a "serious UI change".

And finally, the security implications of search suggestions in the address bar are debatable for the end user.
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