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> On several occasions an upper class minority has been able to convince parts of lower classes to behave against their best interests.

No, on several occasions, an upper class minority has been able to convince parts of lower classes to behave against what you think their best interests should be.

> I mean, they keep convincing a significant part of the population that accessible health care is bad.

Look, I understand that a lot of people on this forum think that there's one and only one way to achieve accessible healthcare, but the reality is that there are SO many different ways to get affordable / high quality care. Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands all have wildly different healthcare systems, but all produce fairly good outcomes (especially Singapore).

I'm happy to talk more about all of them: I write software for claims processing systems for a living and can tell you all about how healthcare pricing works.

What you're witnessing is that there's broad agreement around what the problem is, but violent disagreement on what the solution ought to be.
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My man I hear what you’re saying but take some mushrooms and then come back around to this topic again
Which will never happen when 1) some law enforcement agencies themselves got affected and 2) as long as the ransom is less than the cost of recovery there's always the possibility for the payment to be done "underground" and off the books.
Eh. Forestry can be sustainably harvested. If incentives are set up correctly, I could see this being a net win.
I'd heard about ranitidine, but that was taken off the market (for unrelated reasons). Famotidine is in the same family - in fact it's what I take now - so makes sense I guess.

Also: the proton-pump inhibitors (xyz-azole) that constitute the other main family of chronic-heartburn medications have apparently been associated with a significant increase in COVID-19 mortality.
someone designed and implemented it. Would be interesting to know the rationale and their train of thought leading to that.
Every time I see the “ Herfindahl-Hirschman Index” used to justify a merger or acquisition, I cringe.
> I think what is unfortunate is that by being illegal they are driven into being recreational.

I agree in sentiment, but would replace /recreational/ with /solely recreational and often consumed unsafely/. Recreation is an important part of life and there is nothing shameful about using these substances recreationally.
Show HN: Pyquirk – Generates Latex figures from drag-and-drop quantum circuits
The first time I took psilocybin -- it had been a fairly low dose (~1.0g I think) and it kicked in during the middle of me trying to wire up a PS3 to an A/V Receiver box and a stereo system, and a TV.

And all of a sudden I felt strangely, and began to giggle, which turned into uncontrollable, uproarious laughter.

My partner asked me if I was okay, and I said:

"Absurd. It's all so ABSURD. Look at me, trying to put the 'right' wires into the 'right' holes on these boxes of metal and plastic. What the hell even ARE humans?"

I thought about our laws, borders, our giant pieces of metal we shuttle around on strips of asphalt we've poured, making sure to carefully follow all the Big Metal Box Driving regulations.

If you could take a step back from modern human life and look it "for the first time", like a child -- you would fall over laughing too.
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That line always bothered me, because that's pretty much all sapphires are.

Also, gorilla glass. Fancy, but also way less fancy sounding than transparent aluminum.
10 years from now

"All smart TVs come with a 5G network adapter built in to keep in touch with the ad networks"
>Basically, I think you can remove your first sentence and leave the last to make a truer statement.

+1 not sure how event driven arch would have mitigated here. A well designed (with redundancy where necessary, better tooling, monitoring, scalable, etc) would.
I think you should strive for what your customer base wants, if the lowest common denominator is 90% of users, then that should be priority
I was writing answers for an exam in LaTeX. It involved long lines of repetitive code to generate simple quantum circuits. This is the result of a weekend spent trying to fix the lack of an interface to easily LaTeXify them; may contain errors. Let me know if you find any.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Trade and exchange are just emergent properties of human experience. Every society has some form of it.

If we could infuse our current economy of capital with "psychedelic values", there's no reason it can't be integrated. Terence McKenna pointed out that capitalism is a novelty-expanding engine. If we can use capitalism as a tool to build better societies, why not?

The pipeline of logistics and labor that keeps us alive is amazing, and worth preserving. We just need to introduce a different method of thought.
I've also taken mushrooms twice and in both cases was overwhelmed with empathy for another person's existence. One was a homeless person I walked by and another was a teacher I had met that night.

They definitely pry open mental models your mind has trained itself to no longer see (probably because it's too overwhelming to experience them at all times).

Actually the third person I felt a unique depth of empathy for was myself, and that experience was pivotal in my life.
I had covid three weeks ago, but I never noticed a lack of smell and taste.

I had all the other symptoms, including some of the post effects, but not this particular one.
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There's no such thing as "conservation of matter." There's conservation of mass in basic chemistry, but it's really just a partial understanding of conservation of energy anyway.

It's almost as if the author has never heard of exothermic chemical reactions.
They cannot make it more efficient because the algorithm adapts to become less efficient. Miners design new hardware and throw out their old hardware as quickly as they can to try and stay one step ahead of their peers, but their peers catch up, the algorithm de-optimizes and the game begins again.

CPUs are able to do more with the same TDP each revision, Bitcoin can only perform the exact same 7 transactions per second no matter how much faster the underlying hardware gets.
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1) use fine sand to make tempered glass

2) break it

3) Now use those small pieces of broken glass as if they were coarse sand to make concrete. Or even better recicle all those old cracked car panes lying in the dumpster.

Problem solved.

Maybe you could even obtain cool semitransparent concrete, if you polish the finished stuff. I dunno. Would be cool stuff in any case.
There you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w
It's part of the standard practice that was submitted here earlier:

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.e...
There's an entire industry out there which benefits from the fact that credit is easy to access, even if it exposes people to risks of fraud & identity theft.

If banks' interests were aligned with their users (or legislation forced them to) the whole credit history system would be replaced by something more secure & less prone to fraud.
OK, I know it’s easy to say “well of course it’s not safe, don’t send nudes and don’t go on sketchy hookups”. But, to paraphrase Drag Race: men are rotted gila monsters. (I’m a gay male, I can say that. Also I speak from experience. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.)

So, as a thought exercise, how do you make an app like this more secure? Harm reduction is the name of the game. What are the best practices for this? Is it 2FA? Is it encryption keys linked to one device? Is it copying principles from Signal? Is it just having competent developers?
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> You don't necessarily need to do assembler to interact with hardware.

It's too bad because people don't know how things really work underneath.

The second computer course I took was assembly language, and it was a formative experience. I have carried that mental model around with me for all my life.

The first time I touched hardware was in an EE course where unfortunately I didn't really delve into hardware like I should. I remember my partner was an EE and I was computer science and we each did what we did best. Looking back I we should have switched - he should have done the software and I should have done the hardware. I think I would have had better mental models from the course. And until I did stuff like a pi all these years later I treated hardware kind of like mysterious magic in my head.

Seriously, all this should be treated as learning to swim. I've known people who didn't know how to swim and for them there's an insurmountable wall erected in boats and at the beach that could be fixed with a day or two of lessons.
PLA is opaque for UV: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/UV-and-visible-light-tra...

So should be similar to window glass in that respect.
I think the ideal is when programs are accessible to novices but at the same time provide instruction to those who care to pay attention and hone their skills. For instance, in Excel, when a user uses their mouse to highlight some cells and create a formula, the formula they created with their mouse is shown in the formula entry form, demonstrating to the user how they might have accomplished the same using their keyboard. This introduces users to 'power user' workflows or tools, while not imposing complexity on the users who aren't interested in learning [at that moment.]

Meanwhile, it's not clear to me how a novice is meant to figure out 'three-finger-swipe-to-undo' on iOS but apparently iOS is the poster-child for intuitive friendly design...
"It's friday and I want to go home" :)

But seriously, I'm sure it was made by people that just didn't stop to think about security and "it works, so we're done here" Then, as a business you're not going to try and fix it if the software already works. That would be pure cost.
If you're already on to this, I highly recommend watching "Symphony of the Soil". It's a fantastic movie all about this, I really think it should be required watching in primary education.

See: Symphony Of The Soil Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU
Thanks for doing it anyways! Moderation is great here, but still there are false positives/negatives
Is be surprised. Muon catalysed fusion can do that, but if my understanding is correct (it may well not be), that’s because the higher mass of the muon means it can be more localised in space, and this wouldn’t have that effect.
Am currently reading Sheldrake's book, Entangled Life. Highly recommend it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entangled_Life

Came across it because I've always enjoyed mushroom spotting in the nearby forests, and decided to explore them in greater detail.
Listened to a great talk by Paul Stamets on Jo Rogan's show https://youtu.be/xJ6Ym719urg Decided to look for a book to read, and Sheldrake's book popped up.

So much of it has been fascinating, and it's a very easy read, too. It's incredible how these organisms raise so many questions about life, from panspermia to questions about individuality. Well worth a read!
Canada had a points based residency system. The major issue here will be the lack of higher education.
How so? "Universal healthcare" just mean everybody has healthcare. It doesn't mean it has to be provided by, or be paid for by the government. Several European countries (eg. Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands) all have universal healthcare that's at least somewhat privately funded.
I used to work for a chip design company whose CEO would ask every for new product ideas at every annual sales meeting and said no to every one for 7 years straight. Now his product pipeline has run out of gas. His stock is in the toilet and new hires won't touch his company. Karma.
Not usually in php, where each request has no shared state with any other (outside of apc, memcached)
So because glass manufacturing isn't the biggest source of pollution, we shouldn't do anything about it?

That's like saying we shouldn't bother doing anything about the toxic waste in your local lake because the oceans are still a mess.

And let's not save endangered wildflowers until we get the pandas sorted out.

To quote an internet cliché: Why not both?
I wish screens could only display text.
As a competitive programmer (IOI gold medalist / ICPC world finalist), segment trees are really the most classic and versatile data structure seen in competitive programming. In addition to the basic idea, there are problems that can be solved with all sorts of different variations - segment trees with lazy propagation, sparsity, persistence, Li-Chao queries, 2D queries, etc.

There's an extremely optimized, 10-line, iterative C++ implementation of the basic data structure due to Oleksandr Bacherikov.

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/18051

Also see Fenwick trees: logarithmic-time range queries in 3 lines of C code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_tree
I don't think this story will survive the front page without turning into a big ugly mess, but it's definitely odd to see his Twitter account so quiet.

Apparently he was given an experimental antibody treatment earlier today? Anyone have any more info on that?

EDIT (transcription of official release):

I release the following information with the permission of President Donald J. Trump.

Following PCR-confirmation of the President's diagnosis, as a precautionary measure he received a single 8 gram dose of Regeneron's polyclonal antibody cocktail. He completed the infusion without incident. In addition to the polyclonal antibodies, the President has been taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and a daily aspirin.

As of this afternoon the President remains fatigued but in good spirits. He's being evaluated by a team of experts, and together we'll be making recommendations to the President and First Lady in regards to the next best steps.

First Lady Melania Trump remains well with only a mild cough and headache, and the remainder of the First Family are well and tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 today.
With my name I get presumed to be a woman - who cares? I don't.
Neither did until I saw the clip in this article

>"People look at a tree and think it comes out of the
ground, that plants grow out of the ground, " he says, but "if you ask, where does the substance [of the tree] come from? You find out ... trees come out of the air!"

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/25/161753383/t...
Yes, I recommend the Logitech MX Ergo Plus trackball mouse. It's expensive but sometimes on sale. I like it because it doesn't have to "move around" like a regular mouse, so it can just sit on the arm of the sofa (or whatever). It takes about 2-3 hours to get used to if you haven't had a "thumball" before but after that you'll totally forget what kind of mouse you're using.

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Media accessibility matters.

Text is skimmable.

A video that opens with several minutes of silence and a German-language crawl ... not so much.

A brief 'splainer, especially on a site such as HN, is a respectful consideration to others. That's what I'm suggesting.

Your submissions tend to the unusual, but interesting. Still, communication is an interface between author and reader or speaker and audience. This piece lacks that. In part by design, I get that. Context can still be afforded.

I'd hope this would be obvious. Thread muted.
> According to the indictment, Team Xecuter at times cloaked its illegal activity with a purported desire to support gaming enthusiasts who wanted to design their own videogames for noncommercial use.

Comically dishonest statements aside, it sounds like the only real reason prosecutors have leverage against them is for openly associating themselves with piracy.
There are plenty of historical examples of less brazen projects that weren’t shown such hostility by litigation-happy Nintendo
Why not use Android Emulator?
I already replied for melatonin, but this is the standard care protocol:

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.e...
I can pull a splinter out of my finger. I can't pull anything out of a finger that's been lopped off my a shattered pane.
My team has been remote for years, and it never stopped us from having spontaneous conversations. We have Slack channels set up specifically for that purpose, where many people say hi each morning, and throw in their thoughts. We'll do occasional calls with everyone as well, just to catch up.

The barrier to this isn't lack of an app - it is just developing the habit of reaching out and saying "Hi."
Uh... One part of it is not returning password reset tokens in the browser. If you know remotely anything about web security this is the most glaring security flaw you could ever encounter.

Other steps are nice to think about, but ensuring basic security measures would preempt 99% of data breaches and "hacks".
Didn’t LinkedIn lose a lawsuit that forced them to allow scraping? How does that not apply here?
Eh, no. That's exactly what the advocates of pulping industry would like you to believe.

Leaving aside the pollution of the rivers and the land and the air over the years, replacing a forest like the Amazon (example) and the ecosystem within cannot be measured in terms dollar incentives to an industry.

Sustainable harvesting is much like clean coal. The math doesn't actually work, but the advocacy sure does. ;-)
In real life you often need trees that can insert and delete, and so you need balancing. Luckily you can usually avoid that at ICPC since it would take forever to code.
How did the farmer get his donkey out of the deep ditch? He filled it in with dirt. This is just Aesop's fable. But it falls into the same abstract thinking as where does fat go, C55H104O6+78O2 --> 55CO2+52H2O+energy[0], or what happens to a tree when it burns, CH4+4O2→CO2+H2O (plus heat!)[0]. We have a hard time seeing air (sic) as something tangible. Also, this inability to visualize abstract concepts leads to political points of view such as whether or not aerosol of breath contains disease or invisible gases causes global warming.

[0] Grabbed from first search results.
If I had to guess, the developer used that to debug the reset token to QA if the flow worked; then it was forgotten and skipped past Code Review since the team just left a LGTM without actually looking at the code OR there were to many changes to the PR.
Extremely anecdotally: it’s [person_name]@gmail.com

I know of very few friends who go through the process of creating a burner email account to sign up for Grindr. Now, maybe that’s different in other countries, but at least in the States, I would bet good money you can guess their Gmail address.
Blog complaining scientists don't know physics and chemistry...

... doesn't know physics and chemistry.
Family, relatives and friends can be huge sources of distraction, if you can't say no.

I know many people that should be a lot better off in life given their merits, but they are weighed down by an endless parade of other people asking things (help, money, counsel). Their WhatsApps beep every minute without fail. Yet they are incapable of even muting the damn phone for a while.
Some people care. Some don't.

If you care so very little about this issue, why bother replying to me to suggest I shouldn't? If you really don't care, then you shouldn't even be reading this crap. There is plenty of other stuff to read elsewhere that isn't on this subject.
I'd rather see us planting more trees to make glass than building bigger strip mines in the forest to dig up sand for glass.
I mean, I don't think it's that hard to surmise how something like this could have happened. Yes, the bug is egregiously bad, but I don't think it's likely the developer purposely designed it to work like that. Some simple possibilities: (a) perhaps the page was originally intended only to be accessible from a user hitting from a private link sent to their email address (i.e. how normal password resets work, or (b) The API in use was designed to only be accessed server-side, but it was inadvertently proxied through to a client-side call.

Again, yes, the bug is very bad. Software is complex, and humans are humans, and it's not difficult to imagine how these bugs occur.