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>> Alberta is still in its early stages of development

WTF? Early stages? The highways have been paved. The electrical lines have been run. Modern military bases. Highspeed internet. Cellphone coverage. Universal healthcare. Universities. Alberta is well past the "early stages" of development.
Salmon carcasses are a vital nutrient source for coastal forests[0], so it seems like there might be something to this.

[0]http://depts.washington.edu/pnwcesu/reports/J9W88040015_Fina...
On a similar note, as a US citizen I am more concerned with what data the US Government or US companies have on me than anything the CCP might have on me.

This might be naive but it seems like we have a much bigger privacy problem in the US.
Try `sed -i ""` to avoid creating a backup.
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Keep in mind also that "criminal" meant something a bit different in colonial times than it does today.
Bread pudding is also nice for stale bread.
Here's one from 2012:

"The right does not have a monopoly on paranoia, as the conspiratorial fantasies of supporters of Julian Assange show. ... Greenwald argued that Assange was not a coward who dare not face his Swedish accusers but a true dissident, who was camping out in the Ecuadorean embassy because he had a genuine fear of persecution."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/nick-c...
Interesting point. What helped you become friends with those people in the first place? For myself it's usually a common background or shared interest in something, which for example enables us to jokingly rank the best video games, which we are all familiar with from our childhood.
What does PO mean in this context?
Loon from Google/Alphabet [1]. They are attempting to connect remote and rural areas of the world. They are currently providing commercial service in a difficult to reach/low ARPU area in Kenya [2].

Loon uses standard 3GPP (LTE) protocols, so devices are available at low cost and even lower in used markets.

I don't work for Loon or Google, just interested in HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo Satellites) to provide low cost connectivity.

[1] https://loon.com/

[2] https://medium.com/loon-for-all/loon-is-live-in-kenya-259d81...

Edit: fixed references
California ia a true dystopia. No wonder there is a mass exodus out of it.
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> May be it got added now

Far from it. This is from 1987.

> is unique to Islamic invasions

Far from it. Mongols, Christians, Huns ... I will run out of space if i have to keep mentioning all the ones that I know of.

I think what you are talking about reflects poor history curriculum and teaching rather than conspiracy. Might it be a projection of a collective low self esteem felt by a class of people who got left behind economically and culturally
Every measurement (gravitational, electronic, magnetic etc. ) causes a collapse of the probabilities. This has nothing to do with quantum mechanics. This is simply statistics/math and has nothing to do with physics.

A simple example:
As long as one doesn't look at a coin, the probability that it shows head or tail is 50%. After the measurement it "collapses" to 100% for one of the options.

But the "collapse" is only a mathematical "collapse", not a physical one.

Physics only limits how precise and fast your measurement apparatus can be.
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You make a good distinction with “can the working set be preloaded or not”.

There are still some cases where I don’t think there’s an obvious answer in the general case. Photo gallery? Product list in webshop?
Ask HN: What is the best distraction blocker?
I can't avoid spending a lot of time in my browser for the sake of work. Sometimes I can focus fine but on other days I find myself getting frequently distracted. I was using inmotion.app until recently but they seem to have reduced their number of users and removed the free tier (annoyingly, without telling me).

What's the best distraction blocker or other technique you've used?
Document, host meetings, buy food, drinks and invite co-workers to have "time off" during a "work meeting" every now and then, but really documentation and generate good excuses that necessarily does not blame other departments.

Document pain points is a big one, everyone says them, but not always are they fixed or prioritized. Something to fix those will work - like creating, documentation, sigh.

People skills and politics, not even technical. :(
Relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed
Not quite a double blind RCT, but at least the data was masked from the statistician that performed the analysis (and some of the medical personnel). The population was not huge, but the results are indeed quite strong [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
So did it actually improve? Or did it continue to go down hill?
I lived in Calgary around 2008 for a while (and have had family there from the 70's until around 2012), and I know the attitude you're talking about.

But I have to say—I saw a lot of posturing that way more than real pioneering mindset. Calgary has been a very developed city for a long time, and no stranger to the exact same comforts and luxuries they associate with the other out east. I didn't encounter the DIY approach you did. Most were contented to take large payouts from the oil industry and its waterfall spending and take that as validation. I grew up with tales from family members who moved there about how adventurous they were and described themselves as "mavericks" while reality was a lot of three-martini lunches in upscale restaurants. I saw more of an enterprising, DIY spirit in people working in the film industry here in Toronto than I did in Calgary. (And that's not me praising Toronto). Being of ... "lower means" in Calgary isn't as fun. Hell, if I hadn't made friends with some bartenders I might not have been able to get out for a few beers as often when it was ~$8-$10 a pint back then. And then there's NE Calgary... of which Fubar† is not an entirely exaggerated depiction in my experience. Then again, that character is pretty much the same as my experience growing up in rural Ontario.

I say that with a kind heart because I met some great people while I lived there, and I miss the place. Calgary is a great town, but I just didn't see what you described there. I saw shadows of it at best—mostly in murals and ornate cowboy hats. Though—I do appreciate the pride in it.

Now, people from outside the city—that's a bit different. One funny story about that: I had a buddy/coworker from Pincher Creek who'd fed himself during college in Lethbridge by hunting a couple of bucks with his friends and getting steaks and sausages made up, and froze them for the year (because I'm pretty sure the only other grocery they bought was bad whiskey and a lot of beer). Smart guy, too. He could have got along anywhere. Maybe he is now. Not sure where he's at.

† the films
More than anything this reminds me of the fact that HTML has failed on a basic level, to keep up with the ways that users want to experience content, and that designers want to present content. The browser has no real concept of "page navigation" or "site navigation" with any kind of state, or the "current" navigation item, or of hierarchy, breadcrumbs, menus, or other core navigational concepts involving site and page structure.

With a few built-in "site structure" features in the html standard, the browser could do a large part of what developers end up reimplementing over and over again - both with and without JS. A large part of "knowing about usability" is just knowing how to execute these basic navigation features without goofing up on the many pitfalls available to you.

For example, imagine if there was some kind of Site Structure standard, or Page Structure standard. The browser could then generate standardized navigation elements with perfect UX on every platform, and sure, you can style them, but the basic functionality just works everywhere without having to make advanced javascript/html/css menus that take into account concepts like responsiveness, touch interface, or accessibility.
I tried that - called it Tech Shorts (lightning talks) at small company. Found the largest issue was Passiveness in the engineering crowd. Ended up giving about 50% of the talks myself, not because I wanted to, but because there were so few people who were willing to step up and present. About 70% of the engineering team would attend (~50 people), so it was well received. Will try a new iteration next time.

What made your attempt successful, in your opinion.
Prior to my joining the team, our homemade migration tool used sequential versioning numbers for filenames, i.e. 001_migration_name.sql, 002_migration_name.sql.

As our team was grew, it was very common to publish a PR, and right before merging realizing you had a conflict with someone else who'd merged to master ahead of you, using your sequence number.

I made a small change to the system, replacing the sequence numbers with unix timestamps and added some previously non-existant tests to cover the migration utility.

Unfortunately the subsequent PR took weeks to be approved by the team/eng leads because there was a lot of hand-wringing about this change. Once it was merged though we never thought about it again, it worked exactly as I'd hoped and nobody ever had to make a final "fix migration name" commit again.
That is a false dilemma, I know this will shock you, but it is possible to have private companies that do not illegally extract fees from users, and at the same time not have government created software....

I support the FTC's actions to go after intuit, but I have filled my taxes every year for many decades and not used Turbo Tax.
Because some people are irrationally biased against government providing services or collecting taxes in general. These are ingrained belief systems being challenged.
Good points, and that meme is far too real.
Yeah I try to avoid "midwest" at all, except when being vague is a goal. The distinction between "Great Lakes" & "Great Plains" seems quite useful both geographically and culturally and "midwest" seems to just splotch right over that boundary.

I agree with your western boundary, though I'd probably just call it "The Rockies" myself, and let Nevadans and Utahns get absorbed either into "West Coast" or "Southwest" as they personally desire.

This system does create some problems for e.g. Missouri & Arkansas, which are in the confluence of 3-4 other regions, and you have to accept that Pennsylvania and New York get cut in half, but it's what my brain has settled on.
Now ask yourself whether a puritanical work ethic is helpful or harmful to society
It is easy to switch domain. You simply need to learn skill and do a project on it and show that result in the interview.

Right now dropshipping is a new skill you can switch by learning its softwares. See this to learn few of them - https://www.howtobuysaas.com/blog/software-for-dropshipping/
I resigned.
> My dad wanted to encourage me but didn't know how, so he got me a C++ book from the library but it just made no sense and I couldn't get anywhere.

Such a nostalgia trigger. My parents were not in IT, but had parent-friends (I was friends with a kid at school, my parents and the kid's parents became friends instead of reluctant chaperones) who were in hindsight mainframe system programmers. Ironically, from hearing about the work, my parents tried to dissuade me when they figured out I was fascinated. It wouldn't pay as well as a Real Engineering Job like mechanical/chemical/electrical yet would demand the same kind of rigor to study so why not just shoot for that REJ or chemistry/biology for med school?

But man, as a kid, once you're hooked molding your own world in code, the amount of sheer mind-numbing work you're willing to go through to get that dopamine hit when some piece works makes a hash of any of that advice. The only block is just the ability to ask around. Elementary school was not the time for K&R or IBM PL/I product manuals or IBM 360 manuals with no adult supervision when I was given access to the mainframe. I. Was. So. Lost. Just the editor was hard to remember rules for.

Back to BASIC on the rickety school teletype (driven by a timeshared mini) I went, and my befuddled parents had no further idea how to channel the energy I put into it without spending money, as well-intentioned as they were, so they got one of the new-fangled IBM PCs at a family budget-busting cost and let me have at it. Forever grateful to them they did that. The seed grew from there. I cannot wait to see what the kids with Google these days that get that same bug bite come up with in the next few decades. It will be glorious.
You can sell crappy products with above 90 percent margin. Though now we primarily use FB.
Well, yes, I am saying from a business perspective this worked. but I also think we got lucky. Around five years ago, a little before the high profile failure, we were starting to lose marketshare, and though we've been able to claw most of it back, I think it's far more due to missteps of our competitors than our own performance. Had we invested in more sustainable development earlier, I think we would have been able to move faster to take advantage of new opportunities, diversify our revenue streams earlier (adding to them now is hamstrung in large part because of tech debt), and head off competitors faster.

In fact, once we started investing in that kind of development, we did do that with a successful new feature that we developed much more quickly than we could have in the past, and it's because of that success that leaders are finally starting to prioritize building standardized and reusable infrastructure.

EDIT: I think another way to say this is, once we knew our strengths and how we'd be successful in the future, we should have operationalized that and hardened it, so we'd have a sustainable advantage over competitors. Instead, we kept the "move fast, be flexible, and throw man-hours at problems" mentality too long, and it put us at risk.
Just in case anyone's curious: there's still at least one BlackBerry user. I'm surprised AT&T haven't shut off the BIS gateway yet, but at least HN loads on this thing.

Edit: Thank you, though, for your effort. I'm not sure if it still works, but I did use the Google Maps client for some time, loaded one .cod file at a time...

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I’m so bummed out that they’re basing themselves and manufacturing in the US. It’s such a risk that it’s difficult to make sense of the reasoning with anything else than that they’re already compromised, possibly simply by funding capital that comes with conditions. Not saying I believe that’s the case but how else can you explain it?
Aren't any what?
Ditto Ulysses S Grant (though he wasn’t born with that name).
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CUDA can't be best if it's tied to a single GPU. It's DOA by definition. This idea of "a language that only works on this hardware" is out of some dinosaur lock-in handbook from the last century.
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Blame was the last thing on my mind when I wrote my comment. I was merely trying to provide some suggestions that would maximize the odds of having a productive experience and good integration afterwards.

Yes, things could go wrong even if one takes every reasonable precaution, is in the best frame of mind, etc. That's why having helped from experienced people you can trust is a good idea, but even that offers no guarantees.

There are no guarantees in life for anything. You could break your neck climbing a ladder to change a lightbulb. People can and do suffer severe accidents (including severe brain damage) skiing, driving, or crossing the street.

Yes, you should be aware of the risks and look both ways when crossing the street, but you could still suffer some accident even then. For some the risky activity is worth it, for others not. For those who think it is, it's helpful to educate oneself and take reasonable precautions. No blame necessary or intended.
I would think the tech number is much higher.
CapOne offers that for their credit cards, but it's so clunky and unintuitive that I still wind up using Privacy 90% of the time.
I am so surprised to be redirected to rate the linkedin app while using their mobile web interface, I usually give them 1 or 2 stars for wasting my time. Maybe I actually misclicked on one of those pop ups that takes me to their app.

makes me wonder what I may have agreed to on various sites by pure misclicks.
I didn't watch the whole video but I read the study. There is a lot of excitement about this study, but the details in it matter. It was randomized - but when you look at the two groups (treatment vs. control), they had some key differences. The control group (who didn't receive Vitamin D) had more men (69% vs 54%), more people with hypertension (57% vs 24%) and diabetes (19% vs 6%). These are all areas that increase the risk of severe disease. So the groups were not the same. If you just compare the numbers of those who went into the ICU vs. not, then the results look amazing. But once you correct for hypertension and diabetes, it was not so impressive - it was not statistically significant in the study.
This does not mean that I think Vitamin D has no effect. There is some evidence for Vitamin D in respiratory illnesses. But the effect is not as dramatic as some of the headlines for this study would imply.
Wow.

"Universal Paperclips achieved in 5 hours 25 minutes 8 seconds"

I did not have those extra 5+ hours to "waste"... but this has got to be one of the single most compelling activities I've ever done.

Seriously one of the simplest yet cleverest things I've seen in a long time.
Yes from a legal perspective I agree.

But what I am talking about is the MSM and they having field day. "Tesla autopilots off a bridge", "Telsa hacked, killed driver" etc etc.

And bad press is a real threat for business, especially when it comes to comes to safety of the driver/passenger.

For the downward car modification trend, I get the impression it's improved protection from manufacturers that are the reason, wouldn't you agree?
In many parts of the United States when you call 911, you're lucky if anyone shows up within an hour. It's a couple hours to get to a Wal-Mart or a store. It's difficult to get anyone to drive 40 minutes outside the nearest town and navigate unmarked dirt roads to do basic plumbing or home repairs.

As a result, people have to learn to repair things, make things, use a gun, do first aid, lay shingles, hang drywall, pour concrete, solder pipe, weld, change oil, replace an alternator, lay PVC pipe, etc.

People in the community learn emergency medicine and how to manage a structure or brush fire by volunteering with the local volunteer fire/EMS, because that's the only show in town.

Roads wash out in the rainy season, so 4x4 is an absolute necessity. People learn to gauge sand you can drive through in 2x4, sand you can drive through in 4x4 and sand you just can't drive through by eyeballing it.

I grew up in a very remote part of the California desert and everyone was like that. It's just what you have to do to get by because you keep finding yourself in situations where you need to call on these types of skills, and if you're living out there you have a lot of free time without interruption or distraction to learn the skills. Lots of people moved out from the city, and over the years they picked up a lot of those skills and became extremely self-sufficient.
> So the wildfire risk wasn't forecasted to be notably extreme, until today when the red flag warning sets in.

This is absolutely untrue. Sure, the red flag warning set in today, but wildfire risk was considered to be at very high levels for (quite literally) weeks. See Tweets from way before the Creek Fire: [1][2][3] Just mild research would indicate that hiking (for days) deep in the wilderness would be a bad idea. It's just profoundly irresponsible. And, as someone that's done NorCal during this time previously, it's not comparable to prior years (except iirc maybe like 3 years ago when it was also a particularly hot summer).

> there are many hundreds of thousands of Californians (myself included) who also headed up into the Sierra this weekend.

There's a difference between doing some light camping or a day trip to the Sierras as opposed to hiking for several days deep in the wilderness during a heatwave.

> ...there's not really any evidence to suggest that these folks made a foolish or dangerous decision

This is the kind of shit that gets people killed. It was most definitely foolish and dangerous. Sometimes bad things happen to extremely experienced adventurers: flash floods, avalanches, etc. This was not that. It was a bunch of Instagrammers that wanted to "get away" without having any kind of respect for mother nature or what she can throw at you.

[1] https://twitter.com/R5_Fire_News/status/1302311140815298560/...

[2] https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1301932248313200640

[3] https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1301255674655956992...
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> to force all states to go along with it you definitely need an amendment

Not necessarily — Congress has vast powers under the Fourteenth Amendment. See the just-published "Abolish the Senate" by lawyer and well-regarded liberal commentator Thomas Geohegan [0].

[0] https://thebaffler.com/salvos/abolish-the-senate-geoghegan
Guardian journalist Charles Arthur in 2016:

"No one is detaining Assange except himself." https://twitter.com/charlesarthur/status/787431124020625408

"show me any reliable document anywhere that shows that anyone is detaining Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy." https://twitter.com/charlesarthur/status/794992629138288640

(I always love arguments of the form 'Initiative X has never been publicized in an official government document, therefore it's paranoid conspiracy theorizing to suggest it exists based on any other evidence at hand.')

Arthur even doubled down in January this year to insist he had not been wrong: https://twitter.com/charlesarthur/status/1221173664579825666
Yeah, I think it has to be something that can be considered an enemy, not something that'll do us harm because that's how things are but has no mind of its own. A virus, diabetes or global warming aren't going to work as good (my intuition is that men need it to be an actual enemy more than women, but I have no idea).

I do believe that e.g. Americans would be much more compliant in corona-mitigation-things like wearing masks if the narrative was "China has sent us a Virus to destroy us". But that would obviously also create serious issues because they'd demand revenge.

A secretive alien enemy has sent us a Virus, and they're also trying to cook us alive by heating up our planet. Are you going to just let them do it to us, or will you stand up and fight for our way of life, against the intergalactic threat? Now that's a They that can provide a We for Team Humanity, Leaders Of The Free Universe.