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Preact: Fast 3kb React Alternative with the Same API, Components and Virtual DOM
Decision to open has nothing to do mask. Its politics. I never support the lockdown in the first place, regardless of mask.

And whether mask actually help with the pandemic, its still inconclusive.
Yeah, I think any law creating restrictions should also provide protections so it's not abused.

For an example on another topic, gun rights groups want a punishment in the new red flag laws for people who file false red flag claims against others so that it can't be "weaponized", as restraining orders have increasingly been used as a "standard" part of divorce proceedings by some lawyers (in cases without any abuse). Seems to make sense, but like most laws it doesn't seem to get any legitimate debate because both sides are just passing laws on mostly partisan lines instead of investigating possible tweaks that would make both sides accepting (no empathy or devil's advocate).
How to draw a floating, levitating cube
I believe Apple does require their review units back.
Of course there is. That's not my point.
Chronologically, The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides makes most sense. It's a shift from the Greek-Persian conflict to Athens vs. Sparta.

You can read Plutarch's Lives in parallel (no pun intended), it's pure entertainment.
It isn't quite that easy though because it's night for all 5x at once, for instance. So you need to have transmission capacity for the 4x you don't use locally, to send it elsewhere when it is sunny, and to import 1x at night from your sunlit neighbors.

> generate green hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2, killing several birds with one stone.

This is great because it means we can use guilt-free hydrocarbons where they're important. Like rocketry and airplanes, making lubricants, plastic bags, etc.

> overbuild would give you massive amounts of "free" electricity. I'm sure the world would find something economically useful to do with it.

Generating proofs of work for a blockchain collectible card game? :D
You surely must understand why some people like the convenience of wireless headphones?
I think you've nailed the deficiency with regards to MBAs, as they often lack the domain expertise in many situations to be as effective as they might want to be.

However, often times the reason the MBA is dropped into that situation is the resident domain expertise owners inability to communicate effectively with senior managment via financial metrics/KPIs etc.
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for an uncertain world
Managing ontopicness is more complicated than just upvotes. It's a complex interaction between community input (upvotes and flags), software, and human moderation. Upvotes alone would produce a front page consisting of sensationalism and the same few hot stories repeated over and over.

Upvotes are great, because the entire point of HN is to be interesting to the community. But moderators and software are needed too. If the site were determined only by upvotes, ironically it would soon cease to be interesting to the community.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

By the way, this isn't primarily because moderators are smarter or more competent than community members. It's because we're in a position to give HN our full attention and think about the global optimum. Users are giving much less attention to the site (at least I hope they are) and reacting quickly to the specific things they run across. I wrote about that here if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22863209.
I don't care where you are politically. But if this doesn't terrify you then what will?

Does the state ever have justification to do this to the people it's supposed to be representing?

At what point are you going to realize tomorrow it might be you at the receiving end for this?

This isn't a Trump or Biden issue either. This was authorized by a Democrat. Biden winning the election doesn't mean this won't happen again. It only means this will happen but there will be more diversity in the officials that authorize it.
You might be interested in this for some nostalgia, if you haven't seen it already:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...

https://github.com/EvocationGames/KestrelEngine
They are in decline. They need MBAs to manage their pensions and health care liabilities. Elon Musk wouldn’t last a week at any of them. He needs to be in a growth company.
Excellent :)

Best of luck with your launch.
Toyota Woven City
Nuclear is obsolete now that there are working prototypes producing 250KW for 100 hours+ from the reaction of hydrogen to hydrino (dark matter):

https://brilliantlightpower.com/the-suncell-at-the-100-hour-...
Or you know, you could simplify filing taxes?
Here's a link to the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) for Hexachloroethane (HC): https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC148540010&...
A system that gives the government $1 for a painted coconut is better than a system that gives the government $3.52 for a painted coconut, certainly. Except for the government!

In reality, sales taxes tend to be half as large or less and are usually not actually paid on raw good for resale by resellers, so the difference isn't quite as stark, but it is odd that no mention is made of the difference in government revenue, since the government is the entity actaully imposing the taxes!
For anyone else wondering why we get a syntax error, this seems to be new in 3.8. :)
Musk is such a frustrating person because he says important things like this and he should have the credibility to make it meaningful, but he's shot his mouth off so many times that half the world will say "lol, whatever Elon". Like remember when he called the diver in the Thai cave rescue a pedophile?
Except this is not what happens at all. Older, larger trees tend to have thicker bark, which lets them survive the fires, while clearing out the understory and ground level.

Forest fires reset competition at the ground level while mostly maintaining the status quo for large, established trees.
I'd never heard it before, but it seems pretty obvious after reading this article.
I mean, the average person only has a vague idea of what an OS is, let alone a specific one like Android
If the police are firing can of this stuff into a crowd, how can I make sure I stay safe?
Samsung launches 110“ MicroLED TV in Korea
It’s SoftBank.

Retail is being blamed. But there aren’t enough retail dollars, nor enough odd-lot trading, to explain these deltas.
Right. But the company needs to have a point. Growing market share doesn't mean you're serving your customers' needs. You can grow your market share quite well by acting anti-competitively, or by exploiting your customers' weaknesses (gambling). No thanks.
While I don't agree with this, things are going to be taken to extremes when "protesters" destroy businesses, attack police officers, and kill people.
The classification of war crimes just doesn't have much to do with what's needed in the context of domestic policing. Hollow-point bullets are the canonical example; they're illegal in war but required for police, because the fully jacketed bullets used in war are much more likely to hurt bystanders.
It’s timing related. You need fewer in growth phases, though they’re good running sales ops. Need more with mature companies that are optimizing.
US House passes bill to tear down judiciary’s paywall
Somebody had to tell them. What a bunch of cry babies. These bean counters are ruinous to companies. And no, I don’t buy this simple narrative that MBAs are good for mature companies. Not at all. Look at companies like Boeing, ULA, Intel and others. Ruined by MBA guys. Why is AMD outperforming Intel today? Because they didn’t make an MBA person their CEO.

You need somebody in charge who understands the technology, product and customers well. Getting an outsider who only know how to look at spreadsheets and go to fancy dinners isn’t a receipt for success.
WordPress adds official Ethereum ad plugin
Stripe Connect – Payments for platforms and marketplaces
Your proposed law has been tried for many years, by just as many good-willed people who believed their measures would result in target increases. In fact, the entire industry is being bombarded by one such methodology that includes those measures: Scrum. Must we really repeat the years of complaints, criticism and debates to show any measure can get warped and gamed to the point it only vaguely resembles a tool of productivity?

So we get young, naive engineers to focus on small changes. Cool, probably as it should be, you gotta start somewhere. And when these developers get hungry for bigger projects, when they get bored implementing the umpteenth small and by that point (for them) trivial change, how do you encourage them to tackle bigger technical problems? Those that lay the foundation for the new people to do their job more easily and on-board quicker? Or did you actually not tell us all, and you measure far more than just the number of changes?
I wonder what that did to financial transactions in the 48th year?
In many cases the departments run out of their existing stock of the normal stuff and will either use old expired canisters or just use whatever they can get their hands on. Many departments were not prepared for the amount of unrest they saw this year.
Japanese companies generally aren’t.
I have this exact same problem. I'm not exactly sure why, but finding useful examples has been a serious pain point for me. It seems like there's a serious dearth of material between the "here's the absolute smallest thing you can do" and "now we're going to built the F-35, but with ROS!". Like, I want to subscribe to and manipulate the value in a topic. Fine. But how about two topics in the same program? All of a sudden my code won't compile and the tutorials aren't helpful.

Especially with the release of ROS2 (which, frustratingly, seems to be rarely stand-alone, in that the learning process often references or links to ROS(1) code through things like rosbridge), it's just been a frustrating experience. If someone were to release a paid textbook walk-through that actually explains it in a systematic, stand-alone, way with linked repositories, I'd buy it tomorrow.

Which, I suppose, is sort of exactly where this kit is aimed!
> Considering that (estimated lifetime) deaths by all Nuclear (including Chernobyl and Fukushima, but excluding bombs) are less than one week of pollution deaths, it'd be an easy sell if we actually looked at numbers.

Than again, if Chernobyl or fukushima had experienced their worse-case scenarios, it's possible that nuclear would have caught up with pollution-related deaths instantaneously. Which illuminates the poor risk-assessment ability of the average person in regards to black swan events.
Gigantic Eye-Moon by night, no Photoshop
Probably not for number 2, but that's speculation and not a data-driven statement.

I hypothesize that the _MBA type_ of bean counters optimize for their pie, not for the greater good or longer term growth.
> According to this survey of Canadian nursing homes, around 87% of residents suffer from some kind of cognitive impairment such as dementia, alzhymer's, or stroke related trauma [1].

That sounded extraordinarily high to me, and I think because of the subtle difference in implication (not that what you said isn't correct) between your 'such as', and [1]'s 'including'.

In the table below, by far the highest 'characteristic' (82%) is 'Dependence in ADLs (Activities of Daily Living Hierarchy Scale ≥3)'. 'Dependence in Activities of Daily Living' is basically a description of why anyone would be in assisted living in the first place.

But also, there's 'cognitive impairment', and there's cognitive impairment, as it were. I don't think if you populated a table with 'reasons residents aren't gaming' that 'dementia et al.' would be high on the list, and the games those that were played wouldn't be shooters & GTA so much as puzzlers and adventure type games. At least, my grandfather enjoyed Spyro, Zelda, Animal Farm, that sort of thing.
The absolute percentage isn’t important. The problem is that when sales tax fails to work as a consumption tax, it gives a tax incentive to be vertically integrated. And there is implicitly a suggestion that encouraging companies to become more vertically integrated is not a desirable property of the tax system.
> Another strong argument in favor of doing a direct listing to determine market price (and raising privately beforehand if possible).

Presumably they would have raised privately at a price roughly equal to what they could have raised in an IPO. So why would that be any better?
That reminds me of my time at IBM under Palmisano a decade ago.

His goal was to increase the share price by x%. It was no secret one of the strategies was to cut jobs in high cost regions (US) and hire in low cost regions. You'd actually hear this in all hands meetings. It was shockingly shameless.
Just to give some context: huge volumes of variants of these products were used this summer in Portland. We're talking enough to reduce visibility to 10 feet over several block areas.

This was blocked by a court order, which was skirted by the local police department soliciting the irregular fed squad to do so instead. The feds were overstepping their jurisdiction in doing this outside of the very narrow perimeter of the ICE facility and fed court house, but in the current environment the proper legal channels to address this are willfully deaf.

One of the more reprehensible tactics the police bureau used was to deliberately kettle and push protestors down residential streets, delivering massive amounts of gas as they did so. This resulted in children trapped in their homes unable to escape the gas as well.

What happened in my town this summer should alarm everyone, no matter your political creed.
Equally as harmless. The affiliate codes don’t give anyone any information that they don’t already have (if you’re one of whatever tiny fraction of users edit their user agent strings, why the heck would you choose to accept the the URL suggestions‽ And if you really care about strict privacy, why would you use a Chromium-based browser in the first place, when invasive features have been discovered in Chromium’s codebase long after they were added before?). The sheer stupidity of the toxic FUD people spread about Brave makes me angry in its behalf (despite never using it beyond a test run myself).
I often wonder this about my Bose Soundlink Mini II. That thing is a shocking little brick when you pick it up. Like, it's roughly the size of a hotdog bun, and you could probably kill someone with it. Great sound though.
no, because you would have to let the molten salt react with the sacrificial metal, introducing a lot of complicated impurities into your salt bath that may influence your reactor in numerous ways.
A mask with a filter will help but it needs to be the right kind of filter and a mask with a good seal. Having that mask might make you a more likely target for police action, they don't like seeing people show up with masks or shields.
>the American liberal arts system

Related to your second and third points, I think there is at least some case that the U.S. has moved away from the idea of liberal arts schooling towards being more vocationally minded. The intent, going back as far as the mid-1800s with the Morrill Act, was specifically intended to help serve a new growing economy.

If you ask, I bet more people look at college as a way to get a job than to learn to appreciate and contribute to culture
Where do you pay the $50 to?
Worldwide distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is crucial, Melinda Gates says
It's less than tone deaf, it's plain ignorant. As much as I find Musk's unabashed ego distasteful, he has actually built companies and hired thousands of people. Musk is a doer - and you know the old saying about "those who can't do, teach." So if we're appealing to authority, I'll take Musk's over "business-school leaders."

Side note: I've rarely met a top b-school grad who could say they valued much taught during their MBA (aside from statistics). The consensus is usually that it's a great networking opportunity.
Then maybe knowing that Screenhero's founders went on to create Screen[0] will assuage some of the anger.

Also, maybe it doesn't make it better, but it sounds like Slack didn't intend[1] to do this.

[0] https://screen.so/

[1] https://www.notion.so/Screen-Making-WFH-Work-57df16351a884bc...
Don't riot idiot
In California they consider sawdust a carcinogen. I feel like they've ruined term.
Do the AirPods actually orient themselves towards your device, or just assume you're looking at it most of the time? I've noticed that the sound stage seems to recenter if I look away from the device for long enough when listening to some show on my iPad, and doing something else on a computer.
So was I! https://thequux.github.io/posts/advent-of-cobol/advent-of-co...

Sadly, I got jammed up with dealing with stream files on day 4, and then a C3 talk got accepted, so I haven't gotten much time to work on it since
I don't at all mind wearing a mask when I go out, and the risk of causing harm is higher now, but wouldn't "I would rather risk killing someone than having this piece of cloth on my face for a few hours" apply in December of 2019 for example? I think this is what makes the perceived seriousness of the virus such a central point of conflict, as it determines what people see as the appropriate level of response.
Most apps on Windows I use at least doesn't have that, I need to reopen apps after a reboot (unless they auto-launch at all boots) and the windows definitively doesn't stay in the same position and have the same contents as before the reboot.

I haven't used Linux desktop lately though, but I'm not aware that they had an API for that.
David Oranchak who worked on cracking explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o
Lessons for modern software developers from 1970s mainframe programming
> It is not being left to die because you can’t afford treatment. It is bad enough that we don’t need to exaggerate.

If you don't have the money to pay, hospitals in the US are only required by law to stabilize you. So, for instance, if you can't afford cancer treatment, you'll likely die of untreated cancer.
I always contended the funniest part of Landover Baptist was the guest book.
I wasn't talking about my stubbornness being a good trait. It's hurt more than helped, of that I'm sure.

The traits that hurt me in school still hurt me today. Like not being afraid to voice a minority opinion. Or correcting the boss/professor. Or having a strong adherence to the rules/policies and holding people/institutions to their word. Thinking outside the box or being more independent.
If police goes to the extremes that criminals do, they don’t deserve being police.
Why didn't he just work on projects that would make it to market? /s
Indeed, there's nothing _wrong_ with direct-to-consumer sales and there are certainly some advantages as a purchaser - not least avoiding any chance of getting counterfeit goods. But there are certainly downsides too.

Especially with the advent of internet shopping, improved delivery speeds, and reduction in cultural inertia, going direct has become more convenient. That said, while DTC shopping may be _more_ convenient than before, it's still noticeably _less_ convenient than retail shopping. This is displayed by the overwhelming preference of consumers for such resellers as Amazon (the likes of which take an extortionate fee, and provide very little for the consumer beyond a single storefront, fast postage and financial trustworthiness).

> I know Walmart gets lower quality products than other places and whatnot, and manufacturers make subtle adjustments to products to meet resellers' desired price points.

This, and more generally the market data held by retailers, is also a benefit of retailers. By aggregating information about purchases of many different consumers over many different brands, retailers are able to drive product development towards products they know will sell even if these preferences will not be expressed directly by consumers or manufacturers.

To summarise, going back to your original point:

> What's the problem with [manufacturers selling direct to consumers]

Manufacturers know how to make things, they don't know _what_ things to make, or how to sell them to consumers. An market where only DTC sales were allowed would have products that consumers generally want less than they do now, with worse service.
> Also, there is reason why agrarian societies pushed away hunter gatherers - it is just easier to stay alive and healthy.

No.

Agriculture exists because it supports more people per unit of land than what the traditional way of life did (on average). This is as hard of a fact about history as you're going to get.

Now, you need to be savvy about what the statement is not saying. It is not providing a reason for an individual, or group of people, to make the switch from hunter-gather to agriculture. History did not lay that choice upon the discretion of people. It plays out in a much more complicated way.

Since the relatively natural land will only support so-many humans per acre, what happens when there are too many children? They move. Okay, what happens when that next region has too many children? Do they start making farms based on their ledgers of expected food production to population ratio - NO. The people who have political decision power are not the same people who starve or get their heads lobbed off as a result of their decision. If anything, a leader would prefer the neighboring tribe lose a few heads to adjust for the starvation problem. Do people start "switching" to farms anywhere in this? No. Only over a vast period of time, many climates, lots of movement, tribal reorganization, do people start... semi-nomadic animal husbandry. One day this will lead to agriculture.

All of this is vastly more complicated than it is on the surface, and the newly-established farmer occupation, when it comes around, could possibly be seen as the sucker at the table. There was constant tensions between "civilized" societies and their tribal neighbors, and only over the super long term does the higher calorie density of civilization win out. Even if their soldiers are shorter and stupider, there are more of them. We don't read about this, because recorded history picks up at a time when superior organizational capabilities of civilization is starting to give them a quality advantage as well (and as a side-effect, writing).
Oh so that's where the market cap comes from. It's valued forward at 2030-2040 valuation where it owns +18% of the vehicle market.
was this ever in question?
(Note that businesses can offset their VAT liability with the VAT they paid for services/goods received.)

this is misleading, it's like saying you can get a salary as a worker. you get the salary. there is no "you can"

the same is true for VAT, the amount you owe is the difference between the tax you paid for the service/goods you bought and the tax you collected when you sold.

at the end of the month or what ever other period you are required to pay taxes the sum is simplified this difference.

with a VAT rate of 25%
if you paid something 125, (100 base + 25 vat) and sold it after for 150 (120 base + 30 VAT) you owe the (30-25) = 5.

In the accounting software the tax rate for every line item is entered when creating the entry. So at the end of the month its easy to make a report.
That's completely wrong. And by that I mean "you just failed your statistics class" wrong.

Imagine you had a graph of earth's temperature and decided to set the y axis at absolute zero. What would that look like? Would it be in any way useful?
Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
Assumption: it is available to everyone at the same time. No wait lines.

(Edited to add Assumption)
1. YES
2. NO
3. I WILL WAIT
Iron is vastly more reactive than stainless steel, that's exactly why we have stainless steel.