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It could be in this case a kind of arranged deal. Lex made a controversial paper about Tesla driver monitoring not being needed (based on users selected from an unbiased pool of... Tesla online fan clubs), flattering to Tesla's position, and promoted it before getting peer review. A few weeks later he had Musk on the podcast and got onto the Joe Rogan podcast and brought into a kind of mutual-shilling podcast circle.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27359/mit-study-showing-high-f...
This is very common in the United States as well, I have gotten some great pieces this way. Best find ever for me was a Breuer chair ages ago
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"I couldn't sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot"

That should give you between 4 tons (for wheat) and 25 tons (for potato) of produce. Surely that's enough?
(@dang) Other discussion about the same episode here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24823764
The flip side to that idea is that consumers choose to buy this limited lifespan furniture. IKEA isn't tricking people in an effort to grow forever; they are just producing what people want.
As an (ex) XC runner who has done thousands of miles in the cold and snow, the word "normally" in that article's pivotal sentence, "This can cause the smooth muscle in the airway to narrow, reducing the athletes’ ability to breathe normally" is a bit of a stretch. It's like saying these athletes all have "exercise-induced tachycardia" because their heart rate goes up when they compete. Responding to dry, cold air with narrowed airways is normal. I don't dispute that some respond to it worse than others and need medication to come back to the default response, but it's easy to stretch that diagnosis and take salbutamol until you're better than the baseline.

My lungs are currently in the annual process of acclimating to the newly cold fall air. Every year for decades I've been running in October and there are a couple weeks when the temperature crashes from the last encore of summer at 60F/15C seemingly overnight to frosty mornings and 40F/5C runs and the leaves change. I can feel that my legs are fine but I'm breathing harder than usual, and I can literally see on my Garmin that my average pace has decreased but my heart rate is unchanged or elevated. By November my VO2 max will be up a bit and my pace will be mostly back to normal.

Does it feel like I'm breathing through a slimy straw on those first frosty mornings? Yes. Am I in danger of asphyxiating from it? No, and I think that's a critical distinction - some of my friends are, they should use an inhaler to counteract their body's over reaction to the conditions. Can I get over it without medication? Yes. Would I be faster if I had blood salbutamol levels of 800 ug/L instead of 0 and an unrestricted airway? Yes, whether I used it in training to work out at a higher level than I otherwise could, raced with it, or both.

I'd be interested in an analysis of those cross-country skiers if they compared the mucus and muscle response of the undiagnosed and diagnosed athletes with and without their inhalers. Do an EVH test and take an ultrasound of the larynx/trachea to measure smooth muscle constriction and mucus production after 15 minutes on the treadmill at 68F/20C and 50% RH, open the door and do it at 32F/0C and 5% RH, then take a hit of an inhaler and do both again (with appropriate breaks between tests). It could also be interesting to look at the responses of non-winter-sport athletes transplanted from warmer climates versus those who have been working out in those conditions for a few months.

It would be hypocritical not to admit that I occasionally take a pseudoephedrine throughout the fall because my nasal mucus membranes get more productive when raking dusty leaves or running through fields of ragweed - which is, again, pretty normal. To me, the main difference is that suffering through the snot doesn't lead to overcoming it, it's just gross and annoying.
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The lowest setting which turns the screw.
It’s an appeal to the authority of credibility. The more you speak through the language of results, the more credible you are. It’s this appeal to credibility that people rely on when they choose doctors or lawyers.
Presumably the mere fact it can communicate and thus have its position and/or speed derived is itself of value.
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There is a startup in The Netherlands that did exactly this, they are called 'Bunq'[0]. A while back a book has been published how they did this, it is, sadly enough, in Dutch[1]. One of the things that comes clear thanks to the book is that Bunq never wanted to use an additional banking API like another user here said. They wanted their own banking license and not use any kind of gateway via one of the 'old' dinosaur banks.

0: https://www.bunq.com/
1: https://www.bol.com/nl/f/breken-met-banken/9200000057850318/
Even disassembling... what are people doing? I have moved several times with IKEA furniture I had to disassemble (including a big 5x5 Expedit), and it's all been fine...
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- Authoritarianism can be supported by majority, and that first point is essentially argumentum ad populum. The US isn't a direct democracy for good reason, as that is essentially mob/majority rule, and erodes the rights of individuals.

- If we're referring to the US, it really doesn't matter what the functions of other governments may be. The founding fathers clearly defined the responsibilities of the federal goverment, and it isn't their job to protect you from any sort of harm. I don't see how that would line up with anything in the enumerated powers. Ignoring the US, the act is still authoritarian whether you agree with it or not, as it's an order from the top down which limits individual freedom. Again, whether people agree with it or not is a moot point.

- Your point here is anecdotal, and I don't think selective enforcement of the law is nessecarily a good thing. If it's not enforced at all, why make it a mandate and not a recommendation? Also the enforcement or lack thereof of a law/order has nothing to do with the authoritatian nature of it.

While these points you're making may be reasons you think it's a good idea, I don't think you've made a case that it wouldn't be authoritarian. I'm not even saying that inherently makes the idea bad, but you should call it what it is.

To be clear, I'm not against wearing masks. I've had N95s since before this pandemic and wear them whenever I go out in public, moreso to help proyrct others than myself. I am however very weary of granting the goverment authority like that and setting precedent during a national crisis that would erode our liberties long after the fact, like the patriot act.
My postulation was based upon how they dropped the 1GB model of the Pi4 as it did not sell as well as the other models and was able to furfill it's role with lowering the price of the 2GB model, which happened about a year after the initial release.

It is perfectly viable for them to shift to socketed eMMC and still accommodate all available flavours. But then how they sell will set that and if out say 99% of sales are for only 5 models and a socketed eMMC consolidate the offerings whilst still providing exact compatibility with the initial guaranteed offerings, then I still would not rule out such a change a year on, once they see what flavours do sell.

That was the basis of my comment - nothing more, nothing less.
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A check-in from a man-made object further out from Earth than ever achieved before is of scientific interest in itself.
The X/Y problem is a real problem, though. http://xyproblem.info/
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Last time I looked into organic produce it seemed quite clear that it's a net negative for the environment. This is mostly due to land usage (up to 2x than conventional. Yeah let's cut down more rainforests so that the West can eat healthier sounding food...). The articles I read also mentioned eutrophication of water bodies caused by organic farming. This is because the nutrient content of organic manure has high variance, so farmers always over-fertilize, producing excess nutrients that seep into groundwater.

This is one article I read a while back: https://ourworldindata.org/is-organic-agriculture-better-for...

Can someone point to more good literature on this topic?
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I did one Google search to see if this is true, and found a Politico story that says Biden staffers, after reviewing schedules, denied that the events described in the emails took place. So "no one is denying it" seems false. (Feel free to do the search yourself, it's easy.)

I imagine the candidate himself is not denying it, because even addressing it to defend himself from a totally false accusation turns it into a headline. Which, given the content of these leaks, is obviously the entire point of them.
I saw that a few weeks ago, and I thought it was awesome.

The more we do online, the more we need things like this. I already can designate family member or my fiancee as a beneficiary in most accounts that handle all my money, but there is much more to that I'd like them to be able to access if I suddenly died or became incapable of accessing it, or giving them access.

My dad is in his mid to late 60s and often will remind me what his passwords are based around for most of his online accounts in the event he can't get into them and my mom needs to. I think he tells her and my sister this too, but it'd be better to have successor roles for Email and other important accounts that don't have benefactors setup. More legal too, as technically if he passed and I accessed certain accounts it could cause legal issues if I ever did something like transfer funds or use his email to claim I was him for verification to another site.
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You can compose multiple XML docs using XSL, the catch is XML is not rendering until the whole document is loaded in Chrome, the benefit on the other side is that XSL, and referenced XML docs are cacheable.
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Ask HN: Switching field to medicines/bio-engineering as a degreeless programmer
I'm 24 this year. Started coding at 12. Dropped out of school & wrote my first mobile app at 16. Been in a couple of start-ups.

After all these years I realised I'm more interested in living things. I have recently gotten into an (imo, extremely) decent job and finally have the confidence again to think about what I really want to do in life.

I would like to switch fields to medicines or bio-engineering. How difficult will this be? Does having ~8 years of software engineering experience help although I don't have any degrees and formal qualifications?

For anyone who've been there done that, what advises would you give to someone like me? Thanks!

p.s. I can code in coq[1] and I have strong interest in applying automated theorem proving in consciousness research and BCI. And so I want to acquaint myself with medical studies & bio-engineering-specific stuff before I get too old.

[1]: I've done a Ph.D course in programming language theory at 19 when I was vagabonding in a univ with my older sister's ID. And I've also done some work in combinatorics (never got published; just posted on arxiv & shared with friends in academia). I'm currently working on a new proof for an old theorem using coq and hope to get it published.
I never learnt to shut up because I was always smarter than everyone else in the room.

Now, as an old man, I have little money, few friends, and no significant achievements to be proud of. Just now, when I read this article, I realised that my whole life could have been different if I'd just learnt to stop talking at a few key points, and listened more.

I am old, but I am not dead yet.

What do you think I should do now?
They are descriptive categories, not preferences.

If someone has capital invested in a business, and votes for government health insurance, are they a socialist or a capitalist? Would it mean they prefer the government to run everything? Nonsense.

Are the Democrats the socialists and the Republicans the capitalists? These words are little more than partisan shibboleths. The media portrays the Democrats as socialists, and the Republicans capitalists. Yet Republicans vote for socialist policies (Medicare, social security, unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, etc.)
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american here, $2K per month sounds like a pretty wild food budget for a family of three (one of whom is presumably a child). I spend $300-400 a month to feed myself, and I could cut that down a lot if I didn't primarily shop at whole foods. if you aren't focused on saving money, there are a lot of opportunities to spend extra money on stuff that isn't healthier (eg, prime NY strip vs flank steak, fancy aged cheese, high end butter/oils). the nicest version of something in a grocery store can be 2-3x as expensive and nutritionally equivalent.
Have to find cheap measuring points.
Seriously, stop posting Vice crap. The guy that started it is an asshole[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes
So basically the author does not like it when someone competes with them (who does?) and runs to the government to get a monopoly on the product. Spending money and effort on suing instead of continuous innovation and improvement. What a great system.
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>a jailbroken firmware that allows to play roms through some unofficial channels.

Or just get a miSTer or ULX3S and use an open implementation of the turbograph.

If you care about being able to do whatever you want, don't go with a closed solution.
What if you don't have a file?
Who decided to use extremely annoying sounds as the audio track for the first video on the page [1]?

I turned it off immediately after hearing its audio.

If you want folks to watch a video, allow me to suggest making it as pleasant an experience as possible, at least in terms of the audio.

Terrible marketing = marketing that makes your customers/prospects/audience suffer

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HN139WkcCY&feature=emb_logo
I agree, I'm coming around to the fact that Swift is probably the best-designed language in widespread use right now. I've used many and tried many more, and I don't know if it is the original Rust team's involvement with its evolution or just the brilliance of its creator but Swift has really hit a sweet spot in all the many axes of language design. It is just so... productive. Things feel so much easier in Swift, yet it is more flexible than most other popular languages.
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The extremely depressing take I read recently was "Don't think of this as one of the hottest years on record -- think of it as one of the coldest years of your life!"
I don't think it's that simple for a whole host of reasons.
e^ix is useful for radio stuff since it generates a wave that oscillates in 2 dimensions (like a spiral). Here's it being used in code: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/radio-hacking-scripts/blob/...
The podcast was targeted at casual audiences, who generally are normal engineers in the software trade, or even ones outside of software.

The content is fairly shallow.

I am looking for content that actually can describe practitioner problems, not just superficially on general conceptual problems.

One that delivered by John Carmark would be one such example. But John probably is on another level than Chris here, and is very rare.
Preferably there would be a browser option to choose whether or not to do this in the menu for interacting with the selection. The CSS could set the default and the browser could allow you to override it when you're interacting with the text.
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What a waste. Wolfgang Puck had something similar like a decade ago and it was equally stupid.
The point is it would be massive relative to the probes, and it would also have to be moving faster than them to be useful anytime soon. And if you could launch something that massive going that fast, why bother making it a repeater. Just launch a new probe with a bigger antenna.
Can someone ELI5 how to actually take advantage of this? Like if I just compile a simple C program is it going to magically run faster? How about running some shell scripts or running random python code?

Or do I need to write code with a specific SDK to take advantage?
Oh man. It's like Visual Basic all over again! "It's so easy - just fire your entire department and have the secretary write the codes - look, you just drag and drop!"

I'm waiting for the predictions about how self-driving tech was going to eliminate all truck driver jobs by ... last month or so?... to come true first before I start worrying.
I've found that sometimes when posting questions on the internet, and you want to avoid some sticky bit of your question, just straight up lying to smooth the backstory can work, as long as you're sure what you're lying about doesn't matter when it comes to the discussion.

So you could have said you were gifted the CPU by a friend so you're stuck with it (even if you don't have it), or a friend can sell it to you for cheap (maybe the same price of your discount), and then go from there.

Obviously you shouldn't do this in-person, but this is good for stack overflow or random internet conversations.
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Noise is spread out over frequency, you see under the noise floor by using signal-locked narrow filtering that rejects almost everything except the signal in question. All of the target signal is admitted by your filter, but only a tiny amount of the noise is, so your signal is no longer under the noise.

If that isn't much, run slower and coherently combine more data. White noise power with averaging will fall with the reciprocal square root, while your coherent signal power will add linearly-- eventually you overcome the noise assuming your transmitter/receiver oscillators are locked well enough to sum coherently.

If the noise is not white, e.g. if there are tones in it-- these steps work less well.

Now consider how direct sequence spread spectrum works:

I take a slow signal-- like a 50 bit per second 100Hz wide BPSK signal-- and spread it out by xoring it with a fast random sequence (say a 1MHz random sequences).

The result looks like noise. But if you xor it again you get the original signal back.

When you transmit it, the receiver gets a sum of your signal and noise sources. We can analyize each separately: If you xor white noise with your random sequence -- nothing much happens: you end up with white noise with the same power. So when the receiver xors the received signal with the random sequence, as mentioned nothing much happens to white noise. But any tonal noise gets converted into white noise (because it is independent of the random sequence), and your transmitted signal is recovered and ready for reception using a narrow locked filter.

Modern digital communication almost always uses error correcting codes which allow perfect reception even when some bits are corrupted (early space probes were among the first applications of powerful error correcting codes).
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Well if you are such a badass just listen to it in 2x speed or faster like the rest of us.
The embedded market isn't anything like the direct to consumer market. D2C allows for fine tuning like that in a way the embedded market simply doesn't.

If they change the product at all, downstream companies may have to get their products entirely re-certified, which can be an expensive and time consuming process. Those companies rely on having a stable supply of exactly the compute module that they designed their product around. Every detail matters.

These SKUs are fixed in stone. If they discontinue or modify them at all before the specified 7 year date, that would substantially damage their relationship with downstream companies. They have upheld their previous commitments, so I don't expect them to start breaking commitments now.
I wonder what the environmental impact of graphene is from an end of life waste management point of view.
Really? What law covers that?
A lot of assholes have started a lot of things
A copycat started in 2013. Their Cocoon does not capture rainwater so is much less effective.

Groasis invented the concept in 2003. [0]

[0] https://www.groasis.com/en/products/the-development-of-the-p...
If they had bicycle infrastructure like China, cheap/lightweight ebikes/emopeds/escooters would be a very good option for cheap/clean/reliable urban transportation.
You can use the pointer as an object id, but only for living objects.
The pointer becomes invalid the moment the memory is freed. Your bug
was that you used an invalid pointer.
That's not strictly true. You could use the process dictionary to keep hidden mutable state in the for loop. Don't do this.
that's some other random extension with a similar name whereas the original one was by Google themselves

personally I don't want some random third-party having the ability to exfiltrate my google cookie via an auto-updating extension
And lifting power. You'd need quite a lot of it if you'd want to deploy this to a larger group of people. For this reason I think it's not allowed to fly larger/heavier drones without a permit.
I was initially going to quip that is more minimalist than brutalist, but then I realized ( even though brutalist was a trend associated with architecture, it does have in its definition an embrace of minimalism ). I think it is time for coffee.
No, you don't have the freedom to destroy someone else's property.

I get the point of view that "you don't have the freedom to infect others", but where do you logically draw the line with something like that? Why weren't we already required to wear biohazard suits in public? Humans have been spreading disease as long as we've been around.

Your reasoning is so blunt, saying that just become some laws are justified, all laws are justified. Should you not have the privilege to drive, because every time you do you risk your life and others?
They will need a way to migrate users between servers then. If your local feed is important, it's not a great plan to have users start on a suboptimal server and then have to make a new account on the one they want. If that's the case, I would generally expect to be able to migrate to a new server and have all my old posts, etc come with me, and that my user page on the old server would redirect to my new one.
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... unless you use std::less and friends which guarantees an unspecified total order among all pointers of the same type.

Std::set uses it of course.
Gauss was known to have said “if you do not immediately recognize Euler’s formula as an intuitive result, you will never be a first-class mathematician.” (Paraphrased)

Good thing I didn’t go into pure math.