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>core tenet of the book was that the clock domains of the universe were drifting apart at an accelerated rate and the protagonists were trying to stop it.

Another idea would be to have the clocks running backwards.
I don't miss my bar - because me and all my friends never stopped going. What people who 'Listened' don't realise is that people still go out... in every city. Most sheriff's in California have flat out refused to comply with the lockdown regulations. Since when did America get the ability to shutdown business'? Never....

During this Pandemic i've lost three 'Friends' (Social Media acquaintances I knew from HS) to suicide and have not heard of a single person who's had any long-term damage from Covid and the majority of my friends have has it at one point in time by now. I got it in early March in SF and again in July in Miami. Both times i caught a little sniffle. I got tested and quarantined but it did not stop me or scare me away from living my life. Most of my friends have the money, willpower and social distain for authoritarian governments to move to wherever state is not trying to follow China's example. (Mainly Socal, Florida, even Mexico)

Smoking cigs, riding motorcycles, and a million other things can kill you in this life. Live your life and anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. If you're scared of COVID stay inside, but let the rest of us live our lives.
I'm not questioning the flattening the curve part.

I'm saying the 2 weeks part was gaslighting. What they should have said is "one year or greater to flatten the curve." That would have been honest
Yeah, good point. The reason NPM can have packages like left-pad is that it works so well. It's easy to publish a package, it's easy to find one, it's easy to install and use a package. So sure, why NOT make a package for one function that you use all over the place?

There's a downside to all this, but ultimately it's to NPM's credit: the tools are so easy to use that people... use them.
Consider this: influenza almost disappeared due to the lockdowns and other measures we took.

Yet 3000 people in the U.S. are dying each day from COVID.

Does that not indicate that this virus is a particularly nasty virus worthy of special measures? That it’s still spreading widely when the flu can’t?
Also, panics can be caught, and now that ppl write a lot of async code, many panics do get caught by default. So it's just a Java RuntimeException now, buried deep inside the dependency tree layers down..
I feel a fair amount of guilt about this. I live with my spouse and toddler, and not having a commute and spending lots of time with my daughter everyday has been great. Also, it’s now easy for me to fit in exercise every day, so I’m in the best shape I’ve been in in a while.

When relatives ask how I’m doing, I immediately say, “Great!” But then I realize - oops, I should probably give a less selfish response, and acknowledge that the grandma I’m speaking to is perpetually bummed because she can’t see her daughter (which I absolutely believe sucks).

On the original topic: I’ve always thought that Baldur’s Gate did a good job with their atmospheric music. That’s usually my go-to when I want to listen to “tavern sounds.” It basically sounds like the Prancing Pony from Fellowship. And there are lots of similar options on YouTube. It’s fun background music!
According to this chart, it is something that should be approached with caution: https://wiki.tripsit.me/images/3/3a/Combo_2.png
If would be more honest if FB would just outright sell likes.

What they're doing now is more like loot boxes.
cURL is a complex beast, it handles plenty of various network protocols, and does it in low-level c, therefore has a lot of potential for exploits if there is a bug like wrongly formatted strings, or buffer overflows. It's a nest for zero-days.

The code is available to anyone to look for such bugs, even the kids with ego problems (aka the hackers). Hackers like curl because it's a nice tool that indeed help them a lot.

Everyone uses curl, willingly or not, embedded by another library which needs some network protocol. Pass a filename that starts with "protocol://... " to any buggy program that will try to open it, and then one branch somewhere inside libcurl will get called. If you give the right magic string, you get a remote shell.
If you're selecting tons of data when you SELECT * you might also have a god object. I prefer to have my model be a bit more split up by use rather than being full of random stuff. E.g. a customer_address table rather than stuffing all that data into customer, even if they only have a single address.
That's not true. There is no change for users who opted out in 2016
It's all about the tools the shop has. Sapphire probes (edge finders) aid in a lot of the process. Mastercam allows you to simulate the machine process (and you can usually simulate it completely). Every shop is different – the shop I'm at here has a few lathes, robo-drills, 5th axis, and a few older pieces of hardware (which still are able to receive G-Code).
I've had nothing but amazing experiences with Oracle. I can basically eat at whatever restaurant I want with our rep at any time, no matter the expense. I can get catered box tickets to any game. I get gift baskets that actually kick ass.

There was a complaining faction in my org, mostly disgruntled hold-outs from before my tenure. Whatever complaint they thought they had, I could bring it to our account manager, and it was pretty easy to see the root of the problem came from personal issues in staff, and insecurity with changing to better technology that they were not experts in.

Now that I've got mostly oracle certified engineers and oracle familiar managers on board I don't hear any complaints. It's a great product, and in all my future roles, transitioning to Oracle is one of the first things I'll do when I get on board.
Intentionally oxidize the chain and you've got Rust as an integral part of your chain blocks!
I also thought that I don't dream much, but I started the habit of trying to remember if I dreamed something when waking up and if it's in the second half of the night I can almost always remember vivid dream content. Trying to remember dreams after being awake for a while (e.g. 5 minutes after getting up) is much harder in my experience. Most people have at least 2-4 REM sleep phases at night, to have none whatsoever would be quite unlikely unless you're regularly very sleep deprived.
Indian Payment Processor JusPay Keylogs Internet Banking Account Credentials
People in North Korea have not lost their freedom. They can choose from the many options available to them, including going to South Korea. It’s been observed that most do not choose so.
This sounds like a really cool stack. I'm testing the waters with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy right now, but SQLAlchmey feels like it just gets in the way.

Do you have an example project which uses all of these I could look at?
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In the US, it's probably going to be more like late summer/early fall for truly widespread vaccination at which point, I have trouble believing things don't open back up because at that point, people are going to be "We've done what we can. F' it. We're not continuing like this indefinitely."

But, truth be told, come late spring especially younger people are going to be out and about and restrictions are going to start to be widely ignored even if they're still officially in place.
As a random user of ETH: I'm going to go to the PoS fork because of the (implied) fee difference. ~$50 for a wire is going to kill the chain (imho), and I don't see miners incentivized to handle that.
Is there a site for non-dreams? I don't know maybe ThoughtsBank?
In my experience, no.

There are probably more people who use Haskell or want to use Haskell as their main language than there are job openings to work on a Haskell code base.

If you're willing to work with a remote team your inbox will probably never sit empty.
Explaining the Texas storm and other bizarrely cold weather this week
Most likely they would use mils/thou.

25mils ~ 1mm

Or 1/16in as others have said.
'This Crap Means More to Him Than My Life’: When QAnon Invades American Homes
Follow journalists who have domain expertise in technology?

You can use a shitty news article about a particular relevant topic that contains some questionable issues, and then search around for people that actually know what they are talking about.

Exert some of your own effort to find good sources. Don't trust the first thing you read. This is ultimately the problem imo.
They are completely different product. SoulMachines characters are 3d scanned, while MetaHumans is a generator that can generate possibly infinite amount of realistic humans. Also, I think MetaHumans characters are rendered way more realistic in terms of skin textures and materials. The textures in SoulMachines seem to have baked-in lightning.
For the record, I think the second version is a clear improvement.
But cost of living should be a concern of the employer. Ignoring it, saying "but we should just get the absolute cheapest we can", is essentially claiming that the employer does not exist within, and rely on, a society. It's socializing their costs in order to make more profit.

The idea that employers should, as a principle, seek to pay the least possible for the best work, is predicated on the idea of a free market, which is a theoretical construct. It requires a lot of things, like perfect information on all sides, and externalities being properly priced in, that don't actually exist in the real world.
How much is your fear of continuous deployment costing you?
As it relates to the ad UI.
The biggest difference is that Falcon is synchronous while Sanic is asynchronous. With Sanic, you would explicitly specify async/await for asynchronous operations and use asynchronous libraries for I/O. Switching to Sanic could also affect how you deploy to production. Both are plenty fast.

FastAPI [1] is also worth considering if you’re looking into asynchronous API frameworks. It comes with nice features for specifying API schemas.

[1]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
Thundercloud Project: Exploring high-energy phenomena in thundercloud and lightning (2020) https://academic.oup.com/ptep/article/2020/10/103H01/5885093 HTML
Encrypted history should appear fine on Matrix when you log in on a new device - either by gossiping from an old device, or restoring from encrypted key backup if you created one.
Absolutely, which is one of the reasons good error handling is difficult. The context of use for the current code determines how errors can be handled.
They aren’t forbidden from tracking.

They are being asked to get user consent to track, very different things.
Just because we can't handle the catastrophe doesn't mean we are not in one (multiple)
> Have you ever met an Uber driver who didn't give the impression that this was what he did all the time?

Yes, most of the Uber drivers I’ve had over the years were doing it part time, or to fill in between jobs. I’ve only met one driver who considered driving his only job, and he was retired from his 40 year tech career and drove to get out of the house.
Actually, it's a little different. Using coolant is the norm even when doing mild steels. You can remove material quicker, your part remains cooler, and your tools remain cleaner.

There's even cuttings bits that have integral cooling (holes in the cutting surface).
Absolutely. And in addition to a pure information asymmetry, there's also a strong interpretive difference. A founder is generally going to be person who most believes in the company, so they'll value the stock more highly than anybody else. I think it's totally reasonable for a prospective employee to say, "I think the odds are good, but not that good" and lean toward cash.

One formulation I've used that helps is to say, "From data source X, your market-rate comp package is $Y/year. You decide how much of $Y you want to use to buy in now, at a price set by the most recent investment round." That only works if the company has enough access to capital, of course. And it does set the price as that of the most optimistic VC the company could find. But I like that it takes it out of the realm of personality-based negotiation.
>your fundamental nature is flawed. Take these steps to salvation.

When a cheap sales pitch uses the "you're flawed" format, it's usually telling people "we are all flawed, but here's how you can be morally superior to your peers" or "do this thing and you'll receive a divine reward/achieve enlightenment." The promised reward or feeling of superiority is what makes people want to hear the message.

It's cheap to tell an aging church congregation about the dangers of video games and internet pornography, because it let's people pat themselves on the back without making a sacrifice. It's a little harder to tell an audience of young professionals that they need to limit high dopamine activities to find low dopamine activities appealing, and given that it's a real call to action based on a reasonable, falsifiable claim, I don't think it's cheap advice.
In Southern WI (Madison) and Discord and downdetector both went down for me for about 30-45 min. I had a `mtr` running and there was 80%~ packet loss on a cloudflare node, at some point it got rerouted which is when it started working. It took over 30 minutes for it to happen, so I assume it was a manual reroute.
No, that is entirely incorrect:

> When WhatsApp launched a major update to its privacy policy in August 2016, it started sharing user information and metadata with Facebook. At that time, the messaging service offered its billion existing users 30 days to opt out of at least some of the sharing. If you chose to opt out at the time, WhatsApp will continue to honor that choice. The feature is long gone from the app settings, but you can check whether you're opted out through the “Request account info” function in Settings.

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-facebook-data-share-not...
We've had those type of character editors for years. This is about generating realistic characters without 3d scanning.
My new favorite tree in hn
I believe you can get a better normalized form of SubsetFoo by instead doing:

type SubsetFoo = Extract<Foo, { kind: 'B' | 'C' }>;
The big one for me is ZFS. Mac has a fantastic ZFS port, and you're never going to run that in user space outside of some terribly crippled implementation.
Dang, turns out actions have consequences :(
This is neither new nor surprising. I recommend the little book "How to lie with statistics" by Darrell Huff, first published 1954. Chapter 5, called "The Gee-Whiz Graph" dives into the matter of truncated bar graphs (among others).
Creeping Normality
Some people have mostly bad dreams. If I become aware that I am dreaming I stop everything in the dream and "go back to sleep" in the dream. It results in better rest. Everything I've learned in a dream would only be helpful in a world where we wear watermelons for shoes and the trunk of our cars open into hidden ballrooms. It is a really dumb place to spend too much time
On one hand, it's true that they are making odd demands and are linked to Murdoch. On the other, it's disturbing that you pretty much have to play ball with Google and Facebook to survive as a media institution. Yeah, they could create their own competing service I suppose but in practice that sounds more like a non-sequitur than a workable suggestion.
The metric you're looking for is QALY "quality adjusted life year". It's studied a lot in health economics but generally disregarded wrt covid because we don't have 2060's actuarial tables yet.

Yes there is evidence that 10-30% of covid infections have not resolved at 6 months

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.16.21249950v...

which is roughly what SARS 1 looks like (and those people are still sick). But we still can't definitely say that 35 year olds who catch covid will lose 10 years off the end of their life so it's disregarded in our decision making.
My understanding is that you manage your own power with Griddy.

I don't know the specifics in Texas, but here the utility has to follow some process to change prices, with the price set so that the grid operator is likely to average some profit over time. When wholesale prices here spike, the grid operator is contractually obligated to continue providing residential customers power at the fixed price and has to spend reserves that they have built up when wholesale prices were lower than the fixed price. I think they aren't immediately on the hook for penalties if there is an outage, but they have reliability standards that they are supposed to meet.
Raw images: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
And I gave you some input on a specific portion of that.

You then proceeded to excoriate me for not addressing everything in every discussion that has ever happened in your mind about bitcoin.
Where do you think depression fits into this model? I have depression and take antidepressants, but I still experience an undercurrent of inescapable ennui that appears to be resistant to even the most interesting, well-defined and meaningful work.
Is compile the right word here? Is this not an interpreter?
I don't really understand this criticism, because there's no good alternative. Every language is capable of producing invalid states that the programmer did not intend; consider `x / user_input()`. (Unless literally every possible invariant of the program is expressed in the type system, which is not something that we have figured out how to do at scale and not something that even the most type-heavy of the popular languages come anywhere close to.) And once you're in an invalid/unanticipated state, you either crash or you don't. Of the two options, the latter is far worse (On Error Resume Next, anyone?), and is just as likely to lose data/get someone killed.
I would like to know what small children (1-2 years) dream, but we can of course never really know for sure. My daughter (2 years) definitely seems to have nightmares. She also seems to have conversations in her dreams, as she often speaks answers to questions while sleeping. Personally I very strongly remember some wild dreams when I was very young, probably around the age I started remembering things at all, so around 2,5 years. These dreams were often synesthesic, I could see sounds in extremely saturated, moving, three-dimensional colors, and could "taste" geometric forms like pyramids and cuboids. I have never taken LSD, but I imagine the experience to be quite similar. The closest (but not very close) thing I have seen to these dreams is the stargate sequence in 2001.
Anecdata: I usually dont remember my dreams unless I wake up early or at least not all the details of it. However, some times, before I sleep I imagine myself in some situation I always wanted to be. For example, a soccer player in a cup final, an activist making people aware about how politicians are dividing them and such things. And then I have vivid dreams and next day I remember most details. Not sure if others also experience this but at least it makes me very happy next day. That's why I so much hate days when I have night or early morning meetings at my job.
If the ruling government controls all elements of public discourse, how exactly do you “widely publicize and discuss censorship in real time”?
Just being able to go out into the social world without a plan is something I miss a lot. It feels like every time I leave the house now, I have a very direct objective and I try to accomplish it as quickly as possible with as little human interaction as possible
> Fine. Don't force it on us. If it's the right solution, then it will be followed.

Do you actually, really believe this? Do you really believe that if that the research studies come out and say “hey stay inside” that everyone will read the studies front-to-back and go “oh, it’s in the public interest for everyone to stay inside”? Is this a thing that you think will happen in America?

> impose further fascism

What is fascism?
I was less immediately bothered about the fake accounts ('like'-and-run at least is ignorable and does me no significant harm, even if it harms my belief in FB's authenticity and harms FB's reputation with me).

But, I was extremely bothered about apparently real people contacting me who were well outside the demographic of people that I was paying for. I spent time dealing with them, and - as expected - they were unlikely to convert into customers.

I would have re-employed FB 10 times over if I didn't actively have to deal with so many contacts outside of what I was paying for.
> within the guidelines set out by our local governments

Your local government may not care about you. I'd look to respected civilian experts or at least government agencies staffed by respected experts.

I'm basing this on Texas' Lt. Governor Dan Patrick being willing to tolerate a lot of death for the sake of the economy:

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/21/texas-dan-patrick-ec...
> anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you.

Do you not count spreading a virus & possibly infecting others as causing direct harm?
Here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.16.21249950v...
Anonymous source? Check.

Unverifiable anecdotal evidence? Check.

Somehow I’m not surprised that HN users don’t express the faintest bit of skepticism on topics that confirm their pre-existing biases.

“Alarmingly, only 14 percent of American students were able to reliably distinguish fact from opinion in reading tests.” [0]

[0] https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/pisa-test-chin...
I always assumed this had more to do with the different psychology of how different people wake up.

I usually have amnesia in the few minutes after I wake up, and I lose everything. Like when I used to drive my mom to work as a teenager, she would wake me up right before, and I would just put on pants and hop in the car. Halfway there, I'd sometimes admit I had no memory of how I got into the car.

But if I am focussing on writing my dream right away, usually by writing it down in detail, I can recall it later.

I'm definitely jealous of people who somehow remember it so clearly without any special time commitment. Dreams always feel like living a second life
This is exactly Java's checked exceptions, which I'd call a failed experiment in language design.

The problem is that it makes the most common case (letting the exception bubble up) very inconvenient and clutter-y. Signatures with 5 different declared exceptions are worse than useless.
The studies that have been done have shown that whatever benefits that lockdowns may have had were far outweighed by the toll they've taken on mental health and the economy. Short of literally locking everyone in their houses for 2-3 weeks (including essential workers) lockdowns just feel like they're doing something.
Does WhatsApp share a lot of data with Facebook? Yes.

Does this terms of service update change anything regarding that? No.

Has Facebook eroded all trust in itself such that no one really cares? Yes.

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-facebook-data-share-not...
There is some adage that 50% of advertising is effective, we just don't know which 50% it is.