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> If you walk away from your desk or whatever without putting them into the case, they'll die after a few hours.

No, that's not what he said. They do enter "deep sleep" mode after a while, even without the case. Source in his video: https://youtu.be/UdfSrJvqY_E?t=458
I agree with the main idea of your argument, but how can it be set in the "space of all differentiable linear functions" when trigonometric functions aren't linear? I think the argument would hold on the space of real analytic functions. Maybe that is more restrictive than necessary.
> Setting aside standing and even setting aside any effect on this election, does it not matter for future elections that it be clear that the legislature can’t be bypassed in these matters?

No, it would actually be terribly disruptive if the legislature could not subject its regulation of federal elections to the judicial and executive power in the same way as other state laws (and, particularly, laws governing the administration of simultaneously and on-the-same-ballot state elections) are.

The concern here was entirely feigned, hypocritical by the states involved in complaints, and substanceless and purely based on partisan advantage.
I'll not going to rush out and get one. I have no interest in being a beta tester for something like this. The stories of how bad the test kits were is enough to keep me away from v1. Fortunately I'm not in a high risk group and I'm not forced into a situation where I have little choice.
Thalidomide had been tested as well. That alone is not conclusive. Afair there had been hints of its ill effects in animal trials.
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> Yes, __slots__ is an optimization to reduce memory consumption, not to increase speed.

It can increase speed though in practice. Less memory means less management and better cache usage. I've nearly doubled the speed of stream reconstruction from packet capture with a lot of slots usage. (Huge amount of tiny objects)
I feel reasonably confident my overall health is good enough that if I got COVID it would be OK.

The vaccine, while probably fine, seems like more of a wildcard to me. It seems like a low-probability lottery ticket to bad news, whereas COVID seems like a lower-probability lottery ticket to bad news.

(Of course, the government may force the issue. I hope not, though. My body, my choice and all that.)
could have .... but we at SuperMac had one of our best engineers on set for the filming doing what the film crew asked for ....

(running at 3x would likely have resulted in banding)
ITT: people who leave comments without reading past the title.
Flu/cold have much lower presumptive R0's than COVID. So, in general, measures that are effective against COVID are fantastically effective against the flu (influenza isn't quite at historic lows for this time of year, but it's close).

My area is "minimal" in flu activity in the flu surveillance systems, but has increased COVID positivity rates from 3.3% to 5.4% in the past couple weeks, despite increased testing (and increased testing, in general, can be expected to push positivity rates down).
I think everyone in this thread has left too much of their argument tacit and the meaning has been lost. I read it as:

1. Why do many people say no?

2. Well it isn’t recommended for the pregnant [therefore either a large proportion of hn is pregnant or the vaccine is generally bad]

3. [not many people on hn are pregnant so] do you also refuse alcohol because that is bad for the pregnant?

4. [I think you’re suggesting that pregnant people often drink alcohol so I put it to you that] in my experience pregnant people don’t drink alcohol.

5. This comment
Taken to an extreme, yes, it’s possible you suffer from narcissism. There are also many other forms of the pattern, a common one is impostor syndrome. Speaking from experience, it can present a lot like narcissism (seeking external validation and even self-aggrandizement as a coping mechanism). But it can also subside when enough external validation is established to enable self-validation. If you need external validation for things that are unfamiliar or unproven, but you’re able to self-validate as your comfort level rises, it’s probably something more like that. If you continue to need external validation after you’ve reached enough comfort and certainty on the thing that bears validation, there may be more going on.
I wish they’d be more courses on compilers that also serve as language servers. The current world is moving towards a phase where a language needs IDE tooling such as compilers, linters, formatters, REPL, language servers, debuggers and profilers.

Would love to see a high level course that covers how to build the tooling for a great developer experience.
Sometimes I see the argument made that people are hackable by lies, therefore censorship is needed as an antidote. But I don't buy it, because 1) lying is equally available to all, but censorship is available only to the powerful 2) the powerful are as flawed as anyone else, except with power 3) historically the powerful who dabbled in censorship have also lied a lot, and censorship has helped them lie more easily. So the "censorship as antidote to lies" theory is just total bunk from every angle.
> can get mid-range studio quality headphones for that price

Where are you seeing reviews that show that they're not of this quality?
I used to look and laugh at both Mac and Windows users whilst playing games on a 5 year old Amiga 500.

Heck my old C64 had better sound than PCs (and Macs) of the time.

It's such a shame that Commodore were so badly mismanaged.
Growing anywhere is not enough reason to use something. A lot of things are available anywhere but not all of these will be safe for your community. Sacred plants are more complex than the individual impact. It has consequences on your society and this is why its management is by law restricted to native nations.
I thought VAT models were used because it forces honesty at all levels. If you want to claim back the VAT on your inputs you have to declare them, so the tax department can spot a difference between declared inputs and outputs. It’s still possible to fiddle the numbers but harder than pure sales tax.
Could anyone who's running a SaaS company in the US discuss what they use for sales tax compliance, ideally something that'll work with Stripe?

The Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling has recently forced US companies to start collecting sales tax in states where they have no presence, and for some states it's crazy complicated to figure out exactly how much tax you're supposed to charge each particular customer.

Before the Wayfair ruling, a Texas company could just say "IP Geolocation- customer in Texas? Y/N." Collect sales tax if Y. Remit taxes, keep records, and you're good on compliance. The rate would be based on your company's Texas address, so you'd charge the same sales tax rate to every Texas customer. If you were a California company, you'd charge no sales tax to anyone.

But now you're collecting for a variety of states that you have no presence in, and some will be crazy complicated. For example, Louisiana says out-of-state sellers have to identify the exact address for every buyer and match it to a huge database of tax districts to figure out which rate to charge that customer. It's crazy! A non-US SaaS company selling into the US would have a huge competitive advantage from not having to figure out this mess.

Anyway, I'd love to hear from you SaaS guys about your compliance strategies!
I’d go even further and say there are two types of programmers:

1. The ones that “don’t make mistakes”, but actually they are just unaware.
2. The ones that expect themselves to make mistakes and prepare for that.
I think that is a short term issue. Yes you need to spin up the high-output staff in the low cost-of-living area before you fire the high-output staff in the high cost-of-living area, and yes you need to do knowledge transfer, the devil is in the details.

This has happened to me before, the location I worked in shut down and the jobs were moved to a lower cost location. Many years later, they seem to be doing fine. If it was up to me, they would have kept the people in the high cost location but not hired replacements when people left while adding people in the low cost location, but they didn't see it that way.

Also, the longer I work in software development, the more I disagree with "People are not interchangeable parts", at least with respect to developing software. People come work on a code base for a while, they leave, other people get hired on, the code base lives on. If a code base can't be handed off from one group of developers to another group of developers without much trouble, something is wrong. And yes, I know that is an unpopular opinion and the role of a good development manager is to pretend like it isn't true, but there it is. In a well run software shop, you should ensure the people are interchangeable parts.
Umm, that's doubtful. This isn't oxygen that generates a gas on reaction. You would need to look at the actual conditions at moderate temperature (800-1000F is only ~400-500C) for metal fluorides in contact with diamond films and carbon solubility. Even fluorocarbons tend to actually be moderately stable in these temperature conditions.

Diamondlike film coatings should last longer than carbon or graphite crucibles (since those materials are far softer). Those have been tested, although it would seem that high nickel (rather than floridizing Cr) steel is probably the prefered material. SiC also works and they discuss this, but there are concerns about Tritium absorption for the larger crystal structure and porous sintered components.

For some comments and measurements, see this thesis on metal fluoride corrosion control for reactors:
http://fhr.nuc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/06-00...

research on SiC also continues:
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1531263
Another potential intended reading:

"I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one. In paradise, death is life."
R at Microsoft
It is actually kind of frightening hilarious to see movies like Predator 2's depiction of the future. Robocop, as well. It is stark how violent things were back then, it seems.
Schools have no business looking into kids' phones.
I think that what they are saying is they looked at a study that took the total number of cases (based on seroprevalence) and recorded deaths to calculate the IFR, and then they used that IFR value and new data of recorded deaths on more recent dates to predict the total number of cases today. Is that an accurate description?
Well I'll be damned. Yes it is! Thank you!
>I stopped using FB 6 months ago...friends contacted me via messenger to ask how I'm doing, and now we just interact one to one

I hear what you're saying, but you stopped using Facebook's feed feature and now you only use the Messenger feature. I know this seems a bit pedantic, but you didn't stop using Facebook.
hard not to cringe at the safety standards in that video...
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This is my understanding.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03441-8
> They don't even necessarily care about Windows support.

I doubt this is true. Windows = computing for a good over 80% of humanity. Not markets, not regions. Humanity.
I think it's likely higher than that. With seroprevalence data suggesting a ratio of actual cases to deaths in the vicinity of 0.25%, and the ratio of confirmed cases to deaths at more like 2%, that suggests that for every confirmed case, there is something like 5-10 actual cases (some of which are asymptomatic or mild, of course).

It does cause one to wonder if we should try to concentrate the vaccine doses on the people who haven't already had it, so as to save the most lives with the limited supply available. Sure, it may be possible to catch it twice in a few cases, but the rate of that is far, far less than the rate of catching it if you _haven't_ already had it.
If it's that rural, he will find her by waiting for her at the common places and tracking her from there (the grocery store, work, Walmart). Unless she leaves the area, changes jobs, kids and everyone follow those digital rules, etc. At this point it depends on how determined he is to cause harm and to what level.

Also, anything like a lease or DL update can lead to the address being found in a background check.
Freedom of speech in the broadest sense (as in "the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.") isn't binary, and cannot be absolute. There are some forms of expression that we almost universally agree shouldn't be allowed. Incitement to violence, "shouting fire in a crowded theater", depictions of sex with minors, etc are all unprotected from restriction.

In that sense it's like the concept of freedom in general. It's slippery, difficult to define, and has fuzzy boundaries. We're not always going to agree on the extent of each freedom. Where does your freedom end and mine begin?

In this particular case, how big does a company need to be before we start forcing it to host content that it doesn't want to host? When is it ok to force someone to provide a universal platform... to tie their hands so they can't moderate as they see fit?

Do I have a right to stand on your stage and shout whatever I want at your audience?
They do a lot more than remove just Google from Chrome.

Their work on browser fingerprinting is a good example of a feature only available in Brave, to pick just one. This involved implementing mitigation techniques based on the latest research into the topic, something I haven't seen anyone else do.
would wait for people who are higher risk
I agree. I'm not really sure about how much Europe will benefit but I can see other US cities becoming new tech hot spots in few years, not even in a decade. BTW, I tried writing to you via email mentioned in your profile.
Good question. There are two issues, the power and the temperature. The power is easy(ish) - just put enough resistors in there, and you're good. (If you physically can put enough resistors in that space, which... I don't know.)

But you also want to run it at reactor temperatures. I don't know what that is, but finding resistors that won't melt may be anywhere from difficult to impossible.
Doesn't it scare you more to actually be Will Smith in "I am legend"?

He's alone. All those other people were always hanging out together, chasing stuff, hiding from the sun.
> but aren’t there 18 other states joining in the lawsuit?

No, six attempted to do so (since the suit was never permitted to be filed, no one actually joined it.)

18 states (including the six that shortly after that filed to join the suit as party intervenors) filed a request to file a pro-plaintiff amicus brief, which is different than joining the suit.
Shared channels are a godsend for startups trying to figure out their support story. Forums have been long known to suck, shared channels are much more responsive.

There are obvious downsides but the benefits outweigh them. I really don't want to go back to forums and email for customers.
I'd love some more info, or a link if you would. This interests me.
I don't have a horse in this race, but...

does anyone know who does have an interest if not texas? Will the suit be refilled be some fringe group of voters in those 4 states?
The vaccine is still indicated for those who have had Covid.
Guilt by association is really toxic. Please don't open this door. Epstein had a little black book with thousands of names and you're basically starting "the crucible" because you want to win an argument.

I don't like Pinker as a public intellectual and not because of the company he kept, because of how sloppy he is with numbers, and an extremely argumentative egotistical posture. Some of his ideas are interesting.

If you're going to start bone pointing to evil, do it somewhere else.
Tangential anecdote, the ScreenHero founders were in the same 4 unit apartment building as our first office at ZenPayroll/Gusto. They're amazing humans. We were all happy for them when they got acquired, and I'm glad that they get to do their thing now that the promise of Slack didn't work out.
Those companies were founded 7 and 13 years ago. Wait a bit.
Does the U.S. even have massive organized crime operations like those in those pop cultural depictions, anymore? Seems fewer than we used to.
It doesn't matter much in my opinion if you start with Scala 2 now or wait for Scala 3. Scala 3 is 95-99% compatible with Scala 2. There is very little that you would learn in Scala 2, especially as a beginner, that will be truly obsolete when 3 is out (an exception might be symbols, which had very little use anyway). In addition, most existing codebases are in Scala 2 at this time.

(I, and my company, use Scala as a general-purpose language, targeting both the JVM and JavaScript, by the way.)
Dead people and newborns also should not take the vaccine. What’s your point?

The poll’s intent is to understand why one would not want to take it, not whether they should. The government already makes that choice for you. See “People with allergies should avoid the vaccine.”
It's censored in Google search, not keyboard.
Sure Austin is a little blue bubble in Texas. However, most laws that impact employers are made at the state level, and Texas is a much friendlier climate and has less regulation. This does change the situation for residents of “blue” cities like Austin.

Tons of people are moving to Arizona and Texas from the Midwest and California. Now these states are turning blue, but the policies that made them attractive to those people (less regulation, resulting in more housing built and more jobs) are definitely not “democrat” policies.
Sounds like a fascinating place to work. I feel the general rarity of gray beards in the industry denies me a different perspective and experience that I could learn from.
Made chat ubiquitous at IBM?

Maybe I'm a greybeard, but IBM made their own chat product that was ubique-itous* enough that Sametime became a verb there...

* Ubique is the company Lotus bought before IBM bought Lotus, before IBM sold the scraps to HCL.
I believe the theory is, if the virus kills 85-year-old care home residents at 300x the rate it kills healthy under-30s, one dose given to the former is worth 300 doses given to the latter.
For anyone who wonders, the summary of the mistake: created a web crawler without any stop condition and without adding any checks for not visiting the same page twice. The crawler just kept running for a day, making around 9 million requests per minute.
Ask HN: What are some interesting projects for beginner coders?
Currently learning Python (very, very novice). A frequent answer to the above question is to automate something. But what if you do not have anything that needs automating? Another reply is to solve a problem that you need solving, but what if there are no problems that you are aware of?

ProjectEuler problems are fun, but they only go so far. I would like to think about more practical projects for the future.

I guess this question also addresses a deeper question of why learn programming? I have always admired the ability of programmers to create side projects that may one day become a sustainable business in the future.
Where can I invest in your solar panels that work overnight?
That's a lot of words to say that politicians should be able to lie, cheat, and scheme their way to our highest elected office with the help of foreign powers.
Discord isn't enterprise software and I feel really bad for anyone who wants to use it as such. Microsoft Teams is without a doubt the only thing threatening Slack, Discord is an entirely different beast.
As far as I can tell this is currently unknown, it has not been studied.

My complete layman understanding would be that it should at least somewhat prevent the spreading because replication has to be limited if a vaccine works and replication is also an important part of giving the disease to others? If less cells are infected you can't cough out the virus as much? But the exact timeline is important here, obviously. Again, complete layman, I know basically nothing about this.
If people had more freedom in being able to live and work -from- wherever they wanted, we'd have more enclaves of different lifestyles based on like-mindedness and choice than circumstance.
Do you want to build a Snowflake?
oh very cool! Must have been a pain to get the timing right to sync with the film. I assume you modified the video drivers then, or was it solely hardware based? Was it using a Thunder II? Is there anywhere these stories are written up?
Sign me up. That data looks good. Anyone waiting, or objecting to getting it is ignorant.
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I am going to wait. I am concerned about the amount of time and the record of the companies that have created the vaccine.

I work remotely and live on my own, so my exposure to other people most of the time is pretty minimal and I am convinced anyway I may have had it already (I had some sort of illness in April which included a sore throat) though I would have no way of knowing unless I have a anti-body screening.
My librarian wife tells me she has bought some of them for the public library, so I guess it's just a weird gap in my own knowledge and not a "nobody in Michigan has heard of these" thing.
I'll add that for whatever reason you don't want sound on, Ishitani videos are just as good (perhaps better) silent!
If you're interested in faster uploads in Australia, I'd recommend giving launtel a try. They have a pretty wide range of speed options (e.g. 1000/400,250/100), and charge by the day (you pay for the highest speed connection in any given day). Not sure what their national coverage is at the moment though, they're a Tassie based outfit.
Oh, you're SO right. Fox News has so much trouble getting advertisers. So do Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones.
A lot of my conservative relatives are too old to even know what Twitter is, so they completely ignore Trump on that front. They like that Trump doesn't kowtow to the media and they like his judge picks, his foreign policy, and executive orders. The media would zing Romney with little zingers and he would get all hang dog and apologize, but Trump punched back instead and his voter base loved that they finally had a candidate that would stand up to the media.

Trump also tried very hard to make good on his campaign promises.
Can you imagine opening an embassy in Jerusalem under Hillary? I can't, and my conservative relatives love that he did that and that he stands up to China and acknowledged Taiwan's president. They also love that he fights back against identity politics (removing requirement for forced diversity trainings, etc). In short, from their perspective he goes to bat on a lot of their grievances.

So yeah, his Twitter is a dumpster fire, but half his voter base doesn't even see it because they don't use twitter.
Most anti mac interfaces are actually bound to the same constraints a mac is. We don't have good enough signal processing to do pure gaze based control systems. If we did, it might be worth not reinventing the mouse, that much I agree. If we don't have gaze directed into the computer it's move and click. If we do have gaze, we can discuss if blinking is clicking or if we are going to make a richer paradigm of action directed outcome.
You should be adding up the probability of complications to all your loved ones that you unknowingly spread it to should you get infected, too.

(The same reason I usually get a flu shot: it's not that I can't withstand the flu, it's that there are those around me who might not withstand it. I don't want to be responsible for having passed that on to someone.)
Interesting fact; the vaccine probably didn’t increase rates of Narcolepsy at all https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
A clear solution for this exists: we should double the number of people who are estimating how long a project will take.
Failed my test: if you search face it should have Facebook in top 3 results