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> I think the terms prevent you from downloading any content, the fact that some content is licensed CC has

Maybe you are right. If that is the case it is questionable whether contents produced with tax payers' money should exclusively hosted on Youtube to increase Google's income and restrict tax payers' rights.
I have heard the codebase at Shopify is a horrific, GIANT Rails monolith. I can't imagine working on that being pleasant in the slightest.

It's probably one of those companies where fixing a bug a week is "productive" because everything is so hard to do. Ripe ground for the rest and vest types to hang around being dead weigh
Would you mind citing these extensive business connections?
I need a tldr on this, stat. Even timr's response is giving me headaches. I don't consider household infection avoidable. I'm going to keep hugging my kids and wife. So if that's off the table then what?
It is more economical than building massive housing complexes and feeding entire populations for years on end
Hardly it will fully replace C++ due to the pervasiveness of the language on many domains and also due to the C++ ecosystem that encompasses system programming; embedded systems; games and so on. For instance, the C++ ecosystem still outmatches rust regarding high performance libraries for several scientific computing domains; GUI graphical user interface libraries, such as Qt, MFC, wxWidget; Game engines and so on. In addition, Rust lacks openMP feature which allows parallelizing for-loops, which are widespread on scientific computing, for taking advantage of multi-core CPUs and from SIMD.
Why are you dwelling so much on radiation? Do you plan on them dumping them into your front yard or something. The simple solution is to look at rates of cancer and other radiation induced conditions around nuclear plants. Also amongst the people working there? Are they higher? Do your research but I assure you that you won't find anything. It's been studied to death. Chernobyl doesn't figure in because modern reactors aren't Chernobyl style. It was a terrible design even when it was brand new. Now go look up the same information around coal plants.
Actually for language learning at least, understanding doesn't need to come before rote memorization.

While "stupidly" learning a one-two word definition might not allow you to understand how a word is actually used, it will allow you to get its meaning should you encounter it in native material, delaying understanding to that moment.
Of course we should be afraid of nuclear power. Whether we should use it anyway is a different question.
Both mobility data and the curves of ICU cases and deaths, which are fairly reliable proxies for the infection level in the society regardless of variations in testing capacity, are orthogonal to your claims.

ICU cases peaked early april, deaths a week later, then a fatter tail happened due to a less restrictive approach. See the official Swedish data by the public health agency. [0] The mobility showed a similar curve, creeping back up to 10% less than baseline early June and staying there. [1]

[0]: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...

[1]: https://www.teliacompany.com/sv/om-foretaget/uppdatering/mob...
Shouldn't this be 556 nodes for the hierarchical example?
did they know rent would be 70% of their income when they decided to have their first child? their third?
For reference, September is roughly weeks 36-40.
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Agree that the labor market affects it a lot. Since I’m not in a “core” field for the company, I end up doing a lot more and getting a lot less than others who are more core to the company due to their positions (even if work wise, I basically do half their jobs already).

Reputable VC backing would definitely be a positive signal for a better working environment — the big backers know that time and some amount of money (not wasting it) is required to build a startup up. They are also in a position to coach owners to treat their employees as assets not an expense
I think all coders can agree that censoring code should be pretty high up on the list of developer commandments. This should rally all developers.
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Sciencealert isn't really a viable academic source. Most of the time its sources are reasonable though. Renewables won't cut it and we don't have a whole lot of time left for people to figure that out.
Thank you! I'm so glad for what you've built at BioCurious. Awesome work.

The Dojo is kind of an anarchist startup incubator / hackerspace / community learning space. Our metrics tend to be more about the number of people we serve, membership counts, and membership experience surveys rather than total market cap generated. (Sadly we don't see any of the upside of our successful graduates like Pinterest or Lambda School.)

It does let us see some of what's needed for innovation to happen - and it's surprisingly little. A lot of that is just getting the heck out of the way of very ambitious and curious people and giving them a space to work, connect with each other, have fast and reliable internet, and some basic tooling. Don't forget coffee!

The more rigorous and firmly guided the approach about exactly how to innovate, generally the less innovative the outputs are. Just letting curious people tinker and enquire and hear from others who have actually done it themselves is most of the battle.

It was Mexican.VC as much as anything that confirmed this as well as adding another key ingredient: believing in people. It is tremendously motivating to have someone credible tell you clearly that they think you can come up with something valuable. The Mexican startup ecosystem had not been taken seriously but once they were they performed incredibly well. At Mexican.VC we returned 11x cash on cash to our LPs and before we are done we may nearly double that. It pays to bet on people and markets that aren't getting enough attention!
While I think it's a gross over-reaction from the Chinese government, I think I understand the fears which fuel such behavior. CPC has learned a lot from the fall of the Soviet Union and they will do anything in their power to prevent a similar outcome for China.

One of the lessons was that cultural differences between citizens can be a very effective tool to destabilize a country. So instead of promoting cultural autonomy as was done in USSR (sometimes to the detriment of Russians, e.g. see Lenin's remarks about "Great Russian Chauvinism"), they aim to completely assimilate Uighurs and other ethnicities living inside Chinese borders. They feel that it can be an existential threat, so "the end justifies the means". This is why such policy got significantly accelerated after clash with "the West" became inevitable.

If you want to change someone's behavior, you have to understand it first.
I agree, it's not American but it's an American invention and as such America has it more extreme: nowhere else do you see such extreme obesity, and so much processed food...

I don't agree that America doesn't have the highest rate of lifestyle-induced disease, of that's what you were implying.
> there is no other first-class language feature common to all the self-described "functional" languages.

This line of speech usually serves to corner FP in a self-contradicting definition that can be wrestled with, and it is really aggravating.

Functional programming as a concept is well defined, and it's not merely "first-order functions". The reason why many functional languages don't have the same feature set is that programming languages are works of engineering, and that the essence of engineering is to make tradeoffs.

For instance, F#, a functional language, has many non-functional bits, because the goal pursued was to bring FP to .net, and they made sensible choice to promote interop above functional purity.

Likewise, most people doing FP with Lisp in the early days still used mutable variables, because they were limited by the machines they had.

Another example is the ability to perform all kinds of side-effects in many FP languages (Erlang, Clojure, etc.). That doesn't mean FP practicioners are totally fine with having side-effects. It means that totally separating side-effects from code in a general-purpose programming language is not always easy, and that in the interest of having useful projects, sometimes this goal is set aside. On the other hand, programs running on more limited runtimes (eg. Elm in browsers) achieve it completely.

It is really a pity that so many people can't or don't want to acknowledge the nature of engineering work, and hold imperfections against the creators, or the concepts they try to implement.
This is a must-watch video. At a time when we see the world gripped in a state of near madness and lunatic logic coming out Washington, Burke offers us rays of hope.

Burke is brilliant, and he's not lost a hint of the lively panache, intelligence and insightfulness that he had 50 years ago, if anything he's better now than he ever was.
Certainly not conclusive proof, but Google Mobility data shows Swedes are using public transport -28% compared to pre-pandemic levels: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-10-18_SE_Mobil...

This is a stronger effect than in many other countries with official measures in place, e.g. Germany has -21% and was at -8% before case numbers started spiking again a few weeks ago.
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What about all the other logical fallacies? I think we should address many other logical fallacies before having a conversation about whataboutism.
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I agree with that. What I'm saying is it's really not that hard of a subject to understand or teach. At least not enough to prevent me from using it entirely.
I'm not a physicist and this sounds like a fun finding.

What are the minimum properties that constitute an effective "barrier" to jump?

Would a single atom serve as a barrier to jump?

Could we set up a particle accelerator that is just a circle of single atoms to jump, at faster than the speed of light?
Easier?

$(rev <<<gerg)
Air travel is objectively more dangerous than any outdoor activity. There are multiple credible traced studies of transmission on planes, and there remain very few (really almost none) detailing outdoor activity of any kind.

As with anything else, including sitting in a restaurant or bar, any single flight is unlikely to infect you and statistically "safe" from the perspective of individual risk. But air travel is absolutely spreading this disease.

The whole notion of treating a pandemic via the lens of individual risk ("will I get sick if I do this one thing") is broken analysis, of course. But at this point I despair of our ever being able to free ourselves of that nonsense. It's just too ingrained.
By your definition then none of it is zero emissions. Including wind, solar, hydro, or geothermal. "Zero emissions" is a common, agreed upon term for those sources, and therefore so is nuclear because they all have comparable infrastructure related carbon emissions. Please don't be pedantic.
If you have a good grasp of math you can distill these into a pamphlet briefly describing what they are. I don’t think you’ll have any luck teaching the difference between a 401k and IRA to innumerate kids that have never had a real income. There are so many online resources to learn about this. I would rather children learn the academic fundamentals rather than random facts they will need to learn anyway
Yep. My ex boss is starting up an office here, hopefully her company will allow her to expand and hire me.

For me, I’m a bit stuck in a niche field in a niche region (don’t want to disclose too much in the rare case my boss reads), so it’s quite difficult to move around. Also as I’m no longer young, my salary is a bit higher than for young 20s so it’s not that easy to move into other adjacent fields. But the expenses are higher - with a partner and bills to support. Now I know what it feels like to get older!
This is precisely the reason why I don't encrypt full drives. A bad sector, which let's be honest, will happen eventually is a death sentence. I'm paranoid about security but not paranoid enough to take a chance like that.

I've never heard of EncFS but I'll take a look. The gold standard for me is being able to easily recover my data from a corrupted and encrypted drive.
I don't want to commit to an answer but want to hear the tone again. I guess there's an argument to the game deliberately pushing to only hearing it once, on the other hand.
>Most A/B testing is blindness dressed in nice clothes.

... and harassing you.

Excellent definition.
9/11 was Al Qaeda from Pakistán. The USA didn’t have a war with Pakistan over a radical terrorist group.
Part of it is probably that people get defensive concerning anything on which they've spent a large amount of time and effort.
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On the other hand, why even torture someone and then let them free so they can speak out against you? Torturing seems like such a hassle.

If I were an evil dictator with the means in the modern day and I wanted to really intimidate a population, I would abduct some of that population and just secretly kill them and burn their bodies. Nobody can then prove whether you actually killed them. You could say you re-educated them and then let them go, and their present whereabouts are no longer your business.
> I would suggest replacing a chunk of geometry. Teaching students the names of the Platonic solid’s for example is seemingly vastly less useful than basic financial literacy.

I don't have a good argument against, but this makes me sad to read. learning all the names for different shapes was the first (and last, until I got to college) time that I found math interesting.
If it were Ebola instead, would you keep doing that? That suggests to me that it's a choice/avoidable. Given the overall risk level, I agree with your decision [and do the same], but it does seem avoidable if we wanted to choose that.
Zones where it’s not safe and police must negotiate with criminal gangs of foreigners are real in my town Gothenburg, and certainly in Malmö, Uppsala, Stockholm etc. I’ve personally witnessed them shooting and burning cars outside of my apartment.

The image many foreigners have of Sweden is outdated due to mass immigration (HN PC may dislike it, but I call it population replacement) - that image is from when it was a homogenous country.
I have just installed Anki on my Windows 10 computer and was disappointed to find that it has no ability to scale the application's UI or, better yet, configure font size (and, maybe even font family) on a per-component basis. If any Anki developers are reading this thread, please consider this comment as a relevant feature request.
The Trump's and by extension the Republicans have extensive business connections with China.

So what?

Elon Musk and by extension SpaceX (aka future of large portion U.S. space travel) has extensive business connections with China.

So what?
> How do you ask people to try your product on these platforms?

Buy ads, especially when you’re starting from nothing. Both sites you mentioned have self-service ad platforms with no minimums.

If it works, the cost is tiny ($3-$12 per 1,000 impressions) - especially since you’re able to target the campaigns. If it doesn’t work, organic content probably wouldn’t have either, and would have taken way more calendar time and wallclock time to test.

After you find something that works, then look into ways to decrease the cost.
> I don’t need old white dudes yelling at me that I am living my life “wrong”

I don't think the author of this article is white. Does that make you more receptive to his argument that folks who use their cell phones are living their lives "wrong"?

That's all to say - how are old white dudes relevant to this thread?
There’s nothing liberating about any of that. It’s just a list of things you like to do.
But how would that be enforceable?
Agree, it's just mumbo jumbo to most people. Being really data driven in many realms falls into the category of Complicated or Chaos (in terms of the Cynefin framework) so often times being truly scientifically data driven is a matter of a PhD thesis. The only true recourse many companies have is intuition and trial and error which according to Cynefin is the most effective means of operating in the chaos realm
Wow. That really is getting carried away
Educate others. Share this information. Talk about it and get it into the public conversation.
Has this ever been done successfully? It seems like the racial caste system they continue to build will blow back eventually.
Great Highland Bagpipes tune to 475-480Hz as our low A. They're also a just-intonation instrument rather than equal tempered, but in a key that seems really weird if you play all 9 notes: it's really 3 pentatonic keys interwoven so the full scale sounds dissonant, but any of the pentatonic scales sounds fine. And there's some weirdness in what scales were chosen so that the melody notes don't cause dissonance with the drones.

http://publish.uwo.ca/~emacphe3/pipes/acoustics/pipescale.ht...
This is one of the most pernicious aspects of the opioid crisis. Doctors are taught to be hypervigilant regarding "drug seeking behavior" which is pretty much a 1:1 list of behaviors of people whose suffering is "genuine." Number one criteria seems to be that the patient is requesting medication. In so many cases, the patient is the most reliable source of information... but when it comes to pain management, the patient is not to be trusted.
Haskell has ST[1], which allows you to do mutable in place updates in a way that the compiler can guarantee are not visible from the outside. It's not particularly popular though. Typically it seems to be more convenient to either be thoroughly pure or accept mutability and use IO.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Contr...
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Yeah. I think this is essentially a form of anti-intellectualism where people blame their own ignorance (on something with lots of educational resources for those who want to learn) on not being forced to learn it. Schools shouldn’t be expected to teach everything. I would rather teach students the math necessary to be able to compare and understand personal financial strategies/tools than have them memorize the tax implications of them
I'm sure you would agree that it is gross negligence nonetheless.
https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
zmq is "a better socket()", but unlike sockets it's pretty hard to figure out what's going on. E.g. most (all?) socket types don't need the other side to be immediately available, it'll buffer a couple thousand or so messages and start blocking if it doesn't appear. From the app's point of view, everything seems fine until the queues are full (which you can't introspect, btw.) when suddenly everything starts blocking.

It does bring some nice things to the table, but using it has always felt at least a little bit "weird" to me. The docs are a little weird, and there are random caveats sprinkled around the library (e.g. you don't need to synchronize the startup of dependent services like described above, unless you were using certain transports in older versions and so on).

It used to be marketed somewhat towards developing multi-threaded applications, but it was always rather unclear what exactly the advantage of using, for example, the comparatively slow PUSH/PULL socket (ipc:// are pipes) over a MPMC (or as needed) queue ought to be.

It is also marketed towards resilient distributed apps, but, perhaps I was holding it wrong, but it'd always behave much like TCP and stuff like REQ/REP would pretty much always block forever if the peer goes away, while stuff like PUSH/PULL isn't reliable when peers go away, so for a distributed app these can't really be used anyway. So for this use case it always seemed rather too low-level and its guarantees too weak / non-applicable.
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Wonder what your perspective is around countries which are closer culturally to Uighurs? Like i keep hearing they are from Turkish decent - would Turkey have any interest or stake in this?
That's not new. Air changes per hour on pressurized airliners have always been in the 10-20 changes per hour (typically 12-15).

More changes costs some incremental fuel (as it siphons pressurized bleed air), but the effect is quite small.
>And what it “gains you” is never having to think about something changing in a way that produces invalid or unexpected state. (This is more true in statically typed languages of course.)

I think it's more accurate to say that it makes you account for the possibility that an object is put into an invalid state at every mutation you do. Which can be good and can be bad. Good being that your code is safer and less likely to have errors. Bad because it's more rigid and trickier to deal with objects containing multiple errors.
Yeah, I've never used it myself, but I think the main value is an abstraction over programs talking to each other.

Like you can tell it to use sockets if the machines are remote, or different inter-process communication if they're running on the same machine, etc.

It also has some common patterns like pub/sub and others.
Please strongly consider boycotting, or at least avoiding Chinese products: https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
They creating their own Al Qaeda, come back in ten years and check how they are cooking.
I agree. My chances of ever understanding the Standard Model are slim at best, but this representation helped to click more parts of it into place for me than any other diagram.

Which leaves, I think: dark matter and dark energy (if they exist), and gravity?
what stops somebody from just screen recording your material?

The end game is every device having a watermark detector. The PS3 wouldn't play BDs with pirated in-theater movies for example, due to audio watermarking.
Inconsistencies, Inaccuracies and Bad Design: The UK’s Covid-19 App Fiasco
https://apnews.com/article/33a88feb083ea35515de3c73e3d854ad congress isn't sure what the nsa is doing, you will have a very hard time convincing me that the average American can know. We have broad overviews of their job directive, yes. And is this democratic to you, when they lie to congress? I don't believe it's very democratic anyway considering our first past the post system mandates only two political parties, and neither party has any interest in curbing the surveillance state.
After using this for a while and discussing the situation with others in the UK, I thought I'd rather a detailed article going over all the problems with the current setup, as well as how it could be improved.
That should be a call to action to fight against America's abuses, not a reason to ignore other countries abuses.
Is Chinas' reaction also not a response to terrorism?

Also by war he likely doesn't mean "official" declaration of war by the vocal cords of the US president.

He likely means a more physical form of war by means using soldiers, bullets and bombs to conduct mass slaughter. That kind of war.
Interesting! Any luck with Backblaze B2 as a backend for Mountain Duck?
ECS changes the way you access and mutate the world, compared to classic data graph / reference tree, more classic pervasive singletons ("managers"), or even more classic straight global variables.

But in ECS engines you still access a portion of global world state you're interested in, and you mutate some portion of it. The ability to declare what those portions are, when present, allows ECS engines to do stuff like parallel execution of systems, and it also prevents a host of data races, but imho there's nothing really functional / pure / immutable about it.
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