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Yes, but. Somewhere along the way science, research, the topics science "concerns itself with" and everything suddenly exploded over the last hundred or so years, and especially since we have this thing called the Internet the number of published papers, science journalism and journals grown exponentially.

One one hand, it's great. More science/research is being done, but on the other hand it becomes less and less accessible due to the extreme specificity, very narrow scopes and due to simply being on the very edge of human knowledge accumulation.

And of course, theoretically whatever paper one is reading one can "simply" follow the references and look up the introduced technical terms. Occasionally there are great survey papers that take a look at a (sub-sub-sub-)field, and again from time to time there are amazing science communicators that allow laypeople to have some kind of real grasp on these questions and topics.

Yet, I think, it's clear that publishing terse PDFs is not the best way to communicate research and results.

And we know, we - as in DARPA, but anyway, as in civilization - did a trial, and it's very enlightening: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00672-7

And one of the big finding is that being stubbornly terse is bad.

And it's just a step, that this trial did not check, but maybe requiring researchers to spend a few days of their precious time to write a few pages about what they are actually doing, introduce the terms, techniques, methods, wouldn't be that bad, maybe even it would be helpful ... and this is basically pre-registration, and this is basically the grant proposal. And it'd be double-plus-good to link all of these in an open and really accessible manner in those fancy PDFs. (Or better yet, just use a HTML site. LaTeX is nice, but.)
I always wondered why the logo for these very fancy British hotels was a Pineapple!

https://www.historichousehotels.com
>"men"

Obligatory: "But you're leaving out women's historical involvement!"

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That's an interesting thought.

Coal plants offer cheap power, mostly because they ignore the externalities of pollution.

If you could identify the externalities of lies and tax or fine them in some way, maybe they would be minimized.

(tax what you want less of)
> government and legality should not be arbiters of human morality

Then what is the point of having government and legality at all?
Am I the only one here who thinks that "Basic Economics" is overrated? I loved the first chapters but I didn't finish it because of his obvious bias against regulations. While I enjoyed his analyses of failed regulations, the book makes it seem like there're no successful market regulation laws in place and every attempt is doomed to be short-sighted like all his examples. This [1] review on Amazon from someone else expresses my concerns in more detail.

Can someone recommend me an alternative book, that at least tries to be a little bit more well-balanced? I'll probably finish this book for the conservative perspective anyway but it doesn't seem like a good starting point despite its name.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/gp/customer-reviews/RTG2TIDQB6AJI/ref=...
Wittgenstein demonstrated that knowing the truth is not hard? Does this refer to a particular publication or idea?
The paper the Forbes article references doesn't seem to refute the idea that there wasn't a spike in "the participating demographic". They mostly focused on the increase in social distancing among those not participating in the protests.

That aside, the Atlantic article talks about outside air diluting the virus. The Forbes article you linked also talks about this.
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I don't agree with your conclusion. Airborne is airborne regardless of whether it's 5 minutes or 12 hours. The point of the word is to tell people that you can become infected without being in direct physical contact with them. Trying to come up with words for different durations of airborne is only going to make it more confusing, even if it becomes less ambiguous to the people who know the difference between the terms.
An important takeaway is to "send out any email at all".

Like the time with our first startup in YC W06. Our first client was the result of me just cold emailing a CEO of a startup I saw featured in Wired magazine. "Hey I like what you're doing. Maybe we can find something to do together." Short. Not expecting much. No pitch. Just genuine appreciation and interest in brainstorming a collaboration. And it unexpectedly lead to them signing a 5 figure deal with us which was everything to a tiny startup not making anything :)

Over and over in my career I was amazed at what happened when I just bothered showing up.
> Rust has copied a lot from C++.

I think this is exactly the thing: if you come from C++ it's very obvious that they drew a lot of inspiration from there (I won't use a charged term like "copied"). But I get the impression that people who got into rust without learning C++ first are largely unaware of this. Or, even if they had worked with c++ but missed the boat on raii and smart pointers.
Anyone who cared (for either personal or professional reasons) has been leaving their phone at home for probably close to a decade now.
I’m curious why we have aarch64 and not ARM64?
> If we were married, we could reduce our cash savings by 50% and instead invest that money into the open market.

How come you suddenly need 50% less emergency cash per person just because you're married?
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>If both spouses agree, they can be divorced immediately.

Does this include an agreement on alimony/child support/custody? Or are there automatic arrangements for that in Denmark?

That seems to be where things get nasty in the US for the most part. It's not the literal divorce but the second order effects due to it.
Then you should appreciate Chris Lattner's Homepage

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Reports of stingray flight patterns go back to at least 2015:

https://komonews.com/archive/fbi-behind-mysterious-spy-aircr...

https://bgr.com/2015/06/03/fbi-dirtbox-stingray-spy-plane-pr...
I used a novelty ringtone until I realized it was conditioning me to dislike the song it was based off of. It was also slightly embarrassing to have a novel ringtone when no one else had one.

I now realize the best ringtone is one that is nondescript and has no other associations.
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Yes, they did that. But it’s done in a way that gives you value as a customer.

You can argue about fair split of added value between company and user, but it’s not like users get nothing.

With nest cameras for example, what I personally get is really good AI to recognize people. I’m ok with that value exchange.
In my opinion, credit reporting agencies don't need more competition, they need more regulation. Free access by consumers at any time (instead of the stingy once per year per CRA via annualcreditreport.com), free locks at any time with a very short SLA on locking and unlocking requirements (forcing automation and generous user control via apps and websites), as well as requirements making disputes as straightforward and painless as possible along with steep penalties for maintaining incorrect information on a consumer that negatively impacts them.

EDIT because I'll get HN throttled writing too many comments quickly: @smt88 Regulation can and should require providing regulators with credit scoring algorithms, and the regulation of those algorithms (starting with Fair Isaac's/FICO scoring models). This is no different than recent conversations about requiring ML models be transparent to regulators. This is what legislation is for.
Just look at the list of people who signed the letter.

They are experts in their field but they don't have the expertise to consider the whole picture.

It's possible, that there is some airborne transmission besides droplets, but there is no evidence that it's significant transmission route. To get infected you need big enough dose of virus at once. Just some dry floating particles in the air is not enough.
I doubt Trump is a psychological master, but bucketing a bunch of issues into the China bucket can help reframe the pandemic.

China bad, Uighurs, TikTok, trade deals ... Coronavirus.

Trump: I’m not bad, China is. Look at all that stuff in that bucket, need to do something about it, maybe I will, maybe I’m the only one that will.

Standard manipulation really.

Edit: I’ll add that this tactic is so effective that Biden had no choice but to parrot the rhetoric in the dem debates (said some pretty hard line stuff). Biden/Obama have had a legitimate hard line stance against China with their Asia pivot strategy, but they never used the hard-line rhetoric politically until Trump did.

Bill Clinton has similar instincts to Trump. When he campaigned for Hilary in red states, he would straight up say things along the lines of ‘I never thought Obamacare was a good idea’.

Trump is in full gear rallying the base, and he’s going to force Biden to mirror some of these views. If he does this successfully, Biden’s attacks on the pandemic handling will constantly be convoluted with the larger China-bad narrative.
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New York was the epicenter of the outbreak in the US. The situation has improved, but we aren't out of the woods yet, so I think it's correct to be cautious.

My impression from walking around outside is that everyone has optimized for malicious compliance with the rules that do exist, and we don't really appear to be taking the threat seriously anymore. Everyone has gotten masks with exhaust vents, so they can comply with the mask regulations without actually protecting anyone from their disease. Restaurants, stores, and parks are packed. People are basically done caring, and since they won't take steps to slow the spread of the disease themselves, some regulation is required to prevent super-spreading incidents. (Regarding the food rule, I think the idea is simply to reduce the number of people that can dine at a certain place per day. If someone that works there is sick, that limits the number of people they infect.)
in the UK the LNER train company highlights ventilation amongst other things, but the ventilation bit I found suprising when I encountered it.

https://www.lner.co.uk/travel-information/lets-travel-togeth...

" Our onboard ventilation systems are providing a continuing supply of fresh air which is cycled every 6 minutes limiting droplet transmission between passengers." With the graphics implying that ventilation is spatially limited.
>VPS box literally start being scanned/tested over standard ssh port minutes after being spin-up.

Specifically it seems to be giving them a domain name; I've had instances sit with few or no attempts against them as long as I do not assign a name.
Yet the last time I watched an industrial fishing net unload they dumped about a ton of bycatch to the sea lions. They are pretty efficient at killing unwanted species.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-bycatch...?

>Unwanted catch is an issue both ecologically and economically. Animals that are discarded often die and cannot reproduce, impacting marine ecosystems. Bycatch can slow the rebuilding of overfished stocks, and place protected species such as whales and sea turtles at further risk. Bycatch of species like corals and sponges can cause damage to protected corals and to important fish habitat.
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Next to my main contract I have some stuff on the internet generating some regular revenue via Adsense.

I can’t renegotiate my contract at the moment, and I can probably maneuver my Adsense stuff a bit to make it more efficient.

Are there some other ways I could use my skill set that could help me improve my financial situation? Given the short time frame I’m looking for things that I can do with my skill set but don’t require a long time to spin up, and ideally generate significant returns.

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There weren't that many qualified. Education and career pipelines were different, training was different, expectations were different. Are you saying nothing has changed in 50 years?

Sexism exists (and perhaps it would be more productive if you stopped only believing in binary extremes) but it's not a widespread conspiracy. Did you skip the line about the same gender/title/role still being paid differently?
Adultery doesn't affect custody battles in the US (at least in the vast majority of states). There is no benefit in getting your spouse to cheat on someone.
In the US, the ringtone company I worked for charged $1 for monotonic tones, $2 for polyphonic, and $3 for 'real tones', a short sample.
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2. Could you please provide valuable feedback to the candidates who spent time and didn't get selected?

Edit: @dang would it be possible to provide a template for the companies that make the job postings easier?
You have no clue how inflation and price increase are connected. UBI is a nice way of saying we destroyed prosperity with communism here are your rations.
>Bit worried about the quality of the content, based on the quality of the proofreading.

I don't know why this feeling persists. The ability to proofread or write free of spellings is a skill completely unrelated to the underlying content. Complaining about the spelling just seems childish at this point. We live in a world full of mistakes and problems. Dealing with life despite of them is a fundamental life skill.
Do socialists/communists really advocate for the lower classes?
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I propose calling airborne droplets “germ infested mouth farts”. It’d definitely get the 4 year olds on board.
Aren't they one and the same thing? Like x86-64 and amd64?
This is adhering to the social distancing guidelines?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/george-floyd-protest...

The crowds are tight and packed.
Cargo supports non-public package repositories, not sure what you’re referring to here?

You got a similar response in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038376
My understanding is that it is the same thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64
Now I’m really curious. How does one exchange indoor air safely?
Talking about airborne transmission would make it too obvious that masks are pointless security theatre. Can't have that
Is HN still running on Racket via arc? Have you guys tried out the chez backend?
If China-based engineers have access to TikTok's US-based servers, they can still hand over data to the CCP (or be forced to do so).

The only way out is to move engineering, SRE, and testing out of China and hard-fork the codebase.
> should only be used to solved issues that absolutely cannot be solved without it and it's monopoly on violence
And this might switch in winter, as people in the south get outside more and the north buttons up for the cold.
You get this data, much much easier and more reliable from IP and explicit position tracking on web and in apps
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People were not going to fit N95 masks properly or wear them for any extended period.

ADDED: In fact, I'd argue that making N95 masks mandatory (as opposed to face coverings more broadly) would be extremely bad policy even if they were readily available.
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It's difficult to square that idea with the fact that streaming has caused both industry revenue to increase as well as independent share of the overall pie to increase.
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Given that Opex costs are lower than full license, I claim it still feels less risky. As an AEC firm, when you have a project going on, you can pay the Opex, and when not, you don't need to pay - and probably go bankrupt anyway since you need to have ongoing projects.

I think opex saas model might actually be beneficial for AEC industry. Generall you would have paid the yearly license anyway - some products have so called "maintenance" licenses where you basically pay for the company to fix bugs in older versions. And get a release every year or so - patiently waiting for your bugfux.

If licensing moves to Saas, then I would expect customer expectations for better service to rise, bringing in more rapid innovation and quality.

At this point all the CAD houses have been sitting on decades old legacy products and basically charged rent for minimal added value. I would imagine with more frequent releases and more flexible licensing models customer value would increase.

For example if you pay for product x some opex in project and find it dissatisfactory then you can try in next project product y if it works better without paying the expensive yearly license.

Should be good for competition as well (Autodesk is not the only AEC software house, even though they seem the dominant gorilla).
> Strawmanning the education system

Maybe he is. If that's the case, let's "steelman" his position and do better. Do you feel that Thomas Sowell would read your response and feel you grasped the argument he was making to the fullest extent? Do you feel you've honestly and accurately portrayed his position after understanding it fully?

In my opinion, you haven't. I think you're upset and its preventing you from understanding the argument being made.

> Sowell hasn't done economic research at all.

He has a wikipedia. Try your best to read it.
Is there anything new in Sowell? I thought he was a popularizer of traditional free-market economics.
There ARE _almost_ clear guides about how to setup an RDS instance (and a basic webserver if you want) including networking, from AWS itself, it's just these guides are buried under teams of SEOed listicle crap and mediocre medium posts with no information. Will find and update this post.
I do wonder about the approach of defining an 'official' Ratfor or F that is strict subset that removes all the old parts of the language and doesn't worry about compatibility with the old code leaving only what is considered best practice. It might be very helpful to show folks the current way to do things while the full language is available to migrate code if it is considered cost effective. Plus, it would be helpful for go forward code. I wonder what a Rational C++ would look like with Concepts and the lot.
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