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> Authorities have said everything and its opposite in the last 6 or so months.

Right wingers in a couple countries said that. If you listened to actual experts, by February you knew it was highly contagious, asymptomatic spread was a big control problem, etc. The mask issue is the strongest charge because the goal of not buying up the same supplies needed by healthcare workers was confused into general advice not to wear them but by April that had been recognized as a mistake.

The problem was that politics entered the picture when Trump blew off the experts briefing him starting in December and went with the Fox pundits desire first to hope that the economic impact wouldn’t be significant and later trying to pretend they hadn’t been so disastrously wrong. That meant that medical experts were overridden at previously non-political agencies, and that reporters were now pulled into treating advice as political opinions to be hedged.
There's a subtle difference, though.

Moore's law benefits all applications, by increasing performance across the board.

This new "Huang's law" increases performance for certain critical applications, while presumably decreasing performance of other applications (at fixed cost).

The difference is generally increasing transistor density vs. specializing hardware to perform critical tasks (like graphics rendering or tensor algebra).
It's all a conspiracy by the Walt Disney Company.
uBlock Origin in hard mode[0] (plus I set it to not run any js by default on top of that) is, while not exactly a replacement in terms of functionality, a really good alternative. It's all the granularity that most users could really need, I think.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
No it isn’t. Look at the massive empty space this person had to construct between the two content areas of those tall images to get it to behave like this. No reasonable person would ever create something like that accidentally in a way that would create this behavior.
Why is that? It conveys the DOA meaning pretty well.
There are quite a few domestic impacts of the war on terror: domestic spying and the USA PATRIOT Act are two huge examples. In the context of "bankroll law enforcement while diminishing the civil rights of citizens" it's nearly identical to the war on drugs domestically.
Yup. Really almost everything sold online is a "shortcut" to some arbitrary destination. Beauty products, workout supplements, podcasts that give you a small view but seem like they are the way to figure out life, etc.

People want to expend as little energy as possible, which is understandable. But that lets them get tricked into all of this stuff.

Good to realize that "you can't get something for nothing".
I read the whole article a few times. But nothing in there explains why Nvidia wants ARM.

Is this one of those PR articles [1] that try to convince public about the ARM-Nvidia deal being great for the industry? ( While I prefer ARM to stay independent, I am not exactly against Nvidia acquiring it )

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I do! Usually together with Unpoly for ajax stuff and tailwind for styling. Also, I prefer jinja2 templates because with the "macros" feature you can do easy to reuse components.
Because this is the daily covid panic submission.
> that can attest for large climatic swings of the past

Large swings of the past aren't as quick as you think they are, or as we are experiencing today:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
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It's just another one of the millions of buzzword pseudoscience brospeaks.

Also, labeling things could help you explain the world better... but it doesn't always lend to the creation of new things. Like just knowing about these "mental models" isn't going to spur you on to think of a new one. A new one will be made organically to respond to events in the present. Not in pondering the past or future.
They could also package and ship a 32bit chroot and do no translation.
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The ringer is a single low-ranked guy, and he tries hard to wake everybody up. The plan is to sabotage their sleep, in order to have them commit blunders during negotiations.

As each party does it we obtain a "mirrored balance of error".
That he was previously convicted of felony possession with intent to distribute and that this precluded him from owning firearms is the only felicitous reading of that sentence.
That nutritional availability may apply to plant matter (and not in all cases), but certainly not to meat, which likely was the major part of the diet.

On the contrary, cooking destroys enzymes and evaporates water-soluble vitamins.

Bacteria are also very useful for digestion and all meat is aged even today (obviously).

My take is that it was simply a chance discovery of enhanced taste.
Robert Gore has died
Self-Plagiarism
I really want to like OpenPOWER. It has a lot of features I think are great, but it's just so expensive that I can't justify purchasing e.g. a Blackbird from Raptor CS to play with.

Is anyone aware of POWER-powered low cost SOCs akin to Arduino or raspberry pi?
I'd note that when moving from pg to $other the thing that really trips me up isn't the syntax changes, it's the lack of ARRAY and ROWTYPE.

I'm not sure whether those are in scope for you but it'd be nice if the docs said "to be implemented" or "out of scope" somewhere ... and my apologies in advance if they do and I somehow missed it.
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Damn, nice. Great analogy to do your own thing.
That doesn't apply to meat though (at the very least).

Water-soluble nutrients are destroyed by heat.

Also, heat denatures protein, that would make it harder to use, not easier.
How on earth do you get a “hard-drive failure” on an iPad?!
Felons cannot own guns in the US. There's nothing complicated about it.
The supply chain for all of society hurts a lot of people. Drugs are only a higher proportion because that industry's order presently can only be supplied by smaller competitors with similar fixed costs to the incumbents.
Dips in O2 can be very dangerous.

I saw a 48 year old guy unable to put his oxygen nostrils back when his saturation read something like 85.

I think he went ~72% before someone put his nostrils back and the nurse put him back on facemask + an additional O2 tank, besides the regulat O2 coming in the copper pipes.

He kept saying he was fine, just sleepy.

Glad you're ok now.
Where's the data that says Moore's law no longer holds? I see comments and articles asserting this but everytime with evidence. The data that I do find certainly still suggests Moore's law is doing fine.
Moore’s Law is literally about the number of transistors per IC. Building bigger chips is... extremely similar.
That is a lot of people. 200,000 deaths already attributed to COVID-19 in the USA. That's 0.0006 of the entire population dead already. Is it good that it's not that contagious? Yes. Is it killing a lot of people? Also yes.

All-causes mortality is up quite a bit too.
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The UNHCR wants to move the refugees to destination countries and the local (and national) politicians want the camps gone. The inhabitants of these camps don't want to be there either. None of these groups want the camps to be permanent, so you can see that this type of solution is not wanted or desired. There is a perverse incentive to make the camps "bad" but not "too bad."
They have a few internationally, including a 160nm fab in the US already. All their cutting-edge stuff is in Taiwan, though. The one being built for in the US, expected to be for a DoD contract, is the first cutting-edge one outside of Taiwan, but its capacity is miniscule compared with what they have in Taiwan today.
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>> Among its varied applications, Gore-Tex is used in medical devices including heart patches, guitar strings, space suits, and vacuum bags.

I have always considered GoreTex to be one of those simple-but-brilliant inventions. Tiny pores to prevent water droplets, but still breathable, but I had no idea it was also used in medical devices or space!
The first wave definitely did end (and yes, it was pretty bad). But look at the linked data. Cases and deaths are significantly down from the peak.
What is the effect of heat on protein? Does it aid in making it easier to digest or does it have a negative impact on protein content and availability?
When I worked at a grocery store 25+ years ago, having the computer systems go down didn't mean we couldn't check people out.

But it was hard enough to deal with that we always waited for them to come back up before checking people out again.

Recently, after a hurricane, I heard local supermarkets were checking people out manually. It involved looking up prices of everything (by running to the shelf, I think!) and then writing it down and doing actual math. I was amazed that they even tried it. It's so difficult as to be nearly impossible thanks to the way things are done in normal times.

And that's just a grocery store. Medical stuff has to be way, way harder.
On the contrary, our stomach acidity is higher than even carnivores, indicating we are adapted to scavenging.
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Generally interesting, but it's somewhat telling that the one prediction it made failed miserably.
You should prob just completely take a break during the 3 weeks. Go hiking, biking, etc and let your brain rewire so that you're not in a flight or fight mode. Something like "just walking hard for 5 hours gets me to the top of the mountain" and then you'll be so fresh after 3 weeks of that. Work won't seem as stressful or important in life.
Many lawyers are extremely conservative in their judgement. Sometimes this is appropriate, but for the type of lawyer most people can access this stems more from their clients being unable to pay for their litigation services if they do something spicy and need a lawyer to defend them. So a very bad but usually unlikely outcome ends up with enough expected value to consider for most people, because most people are risk averse by default.

See this in yourself as your second paragraph details all the ways the government is scary. Yes, I already know.

I can't think of an example because I know my concept of the law is not wrong. Do not mistake my philosophical groundings of what and why the law is for what I believe the law to actually be. I offered that explanation to you in an attempt to explain why I think what I do and why it is reasonable while also referencing particulars.

What we are discussing is particulars, and if you want to show me that selling low volumes of a product without certification is dangerous then probably I'd need a few examples of that happening, and multiple justices saying "every business, regardless of how big, small, or their product, must spend tens of thousands in red tape."

I did not move the goalposts by saying I wouldn't disregard reasonable notice. You assumed I would not without asking my input and I corrected you.

It depends on what my product is. If it was a low volume prototype I was selling to evaluators before certifying in detail I'd probably say "no, it is certified, it is test and measurement equipment" and then let the company fold in bankruptcy if taken to court. Eventually it may be found the actions of the FCC were unlawful and I might be compensated. If I was intent on immediately continuing to sell it I would move production outside the US and put it on a web store.

Keep in mind you've unfairly characterized what I believe by assuming things in multiple places. I am not a sovereign citizen, and I mostly agree the FCC certification process is appropriate and on the edge of being accessible, but how most people interpret it at the lower edge is not correct.
Does the wheel nut stay on the wrench, or is it like NASCAR where the new wheel has nuts glued on, ready for tightening?

Just saw: NASCAR is going to center-locks next year. And the nut will be retained by the wheel, so no more glue.

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2020/03/02/nascar-single-l...
I have been reading the review of those two books for last 30 min. If I were to read them several years ago, I would think that she's just another sci-fi novel author. The story feels 'normal', another survivor group story. However, this time it feels so surreal, bizzare, a lot of her imaginative plots have actually happened in real life.

Not sure what else to say. Either real life imitates fantasy or she's a prophet.

I'll spend next half an hour to dig out more, before I sleep. Quite an interesting author.
The real reason people upgrade to 32/64gb of ram.
I wonder if there's any value in having a post to HN be, in effect, a "Draft", with a timeout of (say) half an hour. You write it up, but you have time to reconsider and edit before it "goes live" and you're (at least psychologically) committed. Perhaps you have to come back after half an hour and officially approve it? This is starting to sound like work :-)
This is exactly that sort of issue.
There are plenty of political discussions on HN. Many of them with no relevant technical data or discussion.

But reading people dance around the topic they really mean to be talking about is exhausting.
If you’re hosting a static website on cat-jokes... then any requests made are going to the owners of example.co.uk not to whoever has cat-jokes...

It only works if the sub domain grants you some sort of usage on that sub domain. But how many hosts are like that these days?!?

One example given is GitHub, but it doesn’t allow you to host serverside code. It’s purely static.

Wordpress maybe? But I’ve never used hosted Wordpress so I donno what access you get.
Surprised a search for caffeine doesn't find anything on the page.

Having given up soda around college (and never getting into coffee, and rarely drinking alcohol), almost 20 years later I'm glad I have the ability to drink just a little bit and get a good short burst of energy.

Treat caffeine as you'd treat aspirin, or bandages, especially when you're younger and you really do have an efficient power generator, and ability to do more with less. You'll have less of a tolerance you need to beat to get the same effect when you're older.
Preparing the dataset is 99.9% of pretty much all ML and data science.

Just like all software engineering is maintenance, all DS is data cleaning.
Isn't this a bit useless? Surgical masks aren't meant to fit well, they're meant to keep your spittle from leaving your face. N95 masks are meant to filter incoming air, and those are made to fit well.
As the bootleggers and baptists phenomenon has shown, the drive for prohibition can come from multiple, disparate sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
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I think you meant poisonous plant compounds, but fermentation is a more effective process for this and is lower-tech.
Excellent, thanks again for writing them :)
Pretty impressive how fast this hit. Compared to a 'normal' pneumonia which is comparable to a slow descent this was like falling off a cliff. Fine one moment and unable to do much of anything several hours later. Initial recovery seemed to go very well too but then this very strong fatigue just would not let go. I'm curious how other people have experienced their recovery, what phases they went through and how long each of those took.
What is the lowest temperature the studied project’s environment would experience?

How viable is this in colder climates?

Also, great write up!
An interesting thing to note about F1 pit crews is that they aren’t just F1 pit crews - each member of the crew has other roles in the team, mostly mechanics, but also engineers, technicians, and even lorry drivers.
I'm with you here. I found this article useful and informative. Why is this being flagged?
Dextroamphetamine is a common first line treatment for ADHD, but methamphetamine is a second line treatment.

A lot of the information about methamphetamine is, bluntly, propaganda. For example, there seems to be nothing about methamphetamine that is uniquely harmful to teeth, but "meth mouth" is a common trope. When taken orally at therapeutic doses it's not clear methamphetamine is any more harmful than dextroamphetamine, but it's certainly possibly it has more scope for abuse. It's certainly dangerous at high doses! Unfortunately it's hard to find hard data and not drug war propaganda.
I'd drop "for a living" and just ask if they will enjoy doing it. If it only ends up as a hobby and not a career, they can still enrich their lives with it. And if it's a career, too, that's even better.

There's no need to make them think it's not worth doing if it's not a career.
It's in the site guidelines for flaggers not to mention their flagging in the comments. Maybe there should be a separate area where they could put a reason though.
You really should take that message at the end of the post to heart. It is directly addressed to you and those like you.
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I also really like safe drinking water. I wish I contributed as much to society.
Mildly related F1 fact: the green light at the start line comes on a random amount of time after the final red light comes on. This interval can be between 1 and 9 seconds.
To be honest: I have no clue what the reason for this is. I just don’t see scroll bar which is annoying because it’s difficult to estimate how long the article is. Happens on a few sites but not many.

BTW: why was the article flagged?
Well, I certainly don't see how burning the protein would make it more suitable for assimilation, I think it's a myth that's just been repeated without any evidence, if there is any I'm interested in hearing it, intuitively it doesn't make sense.

Fermentation & aging by bacteria on the other hand does breakdown meat and eases digestion, and it's a tradition all cultures have kept in some form, as evidenced by numerous dishes still consumed today.
Criminalization of drugs enables corruption on a massive scale. I do wonder how much the world would change if there were and end to drug prohibition.

Not only would states receive tax revenue from the sale of drugs, but

- drug users would not be poisoned by additives and substitutes like fentanyl

- there would be one less reason to corrupt the police, government officials, and the judiciary

- money laundering would basically end — I mean, what else do you need money laundering for? Heists?

The subtle yet pervasive negative effects of drug prohibition are things we have become so used to that we can scarce imagine the world without them.
America’s Offices Sit Half-Empty Six Months into the Covid-19 Pandemic
Postgres “do and donts”: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
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Does autodiff exist in R? Then why not use R since it seems it also has much ML algo support due to its focus on statistics - its used by many statisticians.

Is the idea here that Swift is a more approachable language and thus this is to lower the barrier of entry to TF?
I don’t know “who”. Please tell me. I’m sorry to sound flippant but I mean this sincerely since I’ve never observed any correlation between downvote-used-as-disagree and any particular beliefs.
Considering it was designed for IT teaching and not for embedded use, I cannot fathom why your company and many others contemplate using it in such a capacity.
Why is Apple guilty of planned obsolescence when they support their devices sometimes 3x (5-6 years vs 2) what their competition (Android) is doing?
Interestingly, the actual release signal to start an F1 race is the red lights going out, not the green lights coming on.

The green lights release the cars to the pre-race formation lap.
Read the biographies of people you admire.
> In the design, the slopes of the drainage pipes and the velocity constraints are selected in a way to have minimum excavation depths, and to have the flow velocity within its design ranges.

I guess that the goal is to make it cost effective. To dig deeper that the strictly necessary would add durability that a temporary camp does not need and a lot of extra cost.

It would have been nice to know the advantages and disadvantages of each camp design. But, I guess that it was not inside the scope of designing the sewage.
Panicking is stupid, precautions are not.
I think they already do this, with the delay setting in your profile.
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I also agree. I hate drug trafiking with a passion. Nations are utterly destroyed by the concept of illegal drugs. Legalize it to dry the swamp.
> Surely I could apply the same logic to any supposedly thinking thing

You can. The Chinese Room wants to be an argument against AI, but if you take it seriously it's an argument for solipsism.
Do you HAVE to use the app to use the machine though? Can you just not enable wifi on itand use it like a dumb washer?
This is the part where it become very subjective. I disagree that its a lot, to me is not a lot.

Though i could understand that for some people even 1 death is a lot.
How do you feel about a model like NoScript’s, where origins are labelled with tags (trusted/untrusted/default, but in theory you could have arbitrary tags), and then request rules are applied to the tags, rather than to origins directly?
It’s literally all about that $81k at this point.

More time in prison, more people in prison, more lobbying dollars to encourage the use of the prison system. We have 2.5 million people in jail/prison.
This looks like the manufacturer I've been looking for, bookmarked for future purchases.
The nut is part of the wheel assembly. They have a fairly complex retaining system on each wheel hub, in case of a cross-threaded nut and unsafe car release.
Here's how DOE’s first crop of risky energy tech has done
The unique property is the ability to just pick any code or library that is unaware of the differentiation library (unlike tf.function as it needs to specifically use tf methods) and get the gradient. In a language like Julia this is immediately useful as it has a massive ecosystem of numerical code that make sense to get gradients (like differential equations and the SciML project [1], or less conventional stuff like raytracers), but in a language like Swift (as there is no meaning to gradient of GUI libraries or frontend stuff) it is more of a "if you build they'll come" faith from Google.

But regardless unique features, it's a have cake and eat it too type of interface. You don't need to learn a second language within the language like tensorflow's tf.* making it even more natural and flexiblethan pytorch, including all debug mechanisms of the host language itself, but you still get compile time graph creation like tensorflow, including all kinds of optimizations. It makes other approaches seem primitive by comparison, but creating it is much more complex, and the main audience is already more than used to using language within language solutions (like numpy) which can provide something almost as good even if less elegantly, so it's not easy to convince people as well (when it involves changing programming languages).

[1] https://sciml.ai/
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Sure floating tooltips or "show and hide" buttons are possible ways to let one preview cross reference within current context instead of leaving the page. This would reduce friction and memory load. This book https://mphitchman.com/geometry/ extensively uses this and other (inline exercises, e.g.) through the pretext markup scheme and tools. As a first step it would be nice to have some of these features working in the more popular md schemes. But I also happen to think that it is possible to go beyond. Math could use a better semantic markup that enables better presentation of underlying structures in addition to pretty tex formulaes.