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> Calcifediol becomes active more quickly than cholecalciferol, enough so that if I were in the business of defending the Spanish study I might argue that it takes a few weeks for cholecalciferol to work, so giving it to someone who will already be dead or recovered by then is meaningless.

Yes, this is one possible conclusion of these experiments. It sounds to me like the mechanisms/pathways of vitamin D are well understood and not controversial. It is known that there can be very long delays (weeks) until blood levels increase from food supplements, and it is blood levels at the time of infection that matters.

The results confirm all this.

> It would make me more comfortable if someone who did understand Vitamin D biochemistry would confirm this, but I'm not going to hang the whole argument on it.

Ok, then. Thanks anyway.
In futureLang:

- Hey, we found some hieroglyphs, in better shape than the ones near the pyramids, do you recognise the gods?

- No, but they all seem to say similar things: Don't open or "Calamities" or something. I wonder what their primitives beliefs were based on... Let's dig!
It's easier than the 'just get a better system' argument.
Would be nice to have links to all those illustrations. Are they inaccessible?
Tech news:
- https://www.hwupgrade.it
- https://www.tomshw.it

PC Building:
- https://pangoly.com

Gamers Forum (one of the oldest):
- https://netgamers.it/index.php

Daily News:
- https://www.repubblica.it/

Marketplace:
- https://www.subito.it/
IDEs? I'm asking about programming languages.
I have found that playing with friends helps me to alleviate this problem, as scheduling constraints put an upper bound on playing time.
"With ldc" rather
Electromagnetic pulses can't wipe CDs or DVDs, so we'd definitely still have anything stored on those, and most data centres are designed with EM shielding so we could still have data stored in the cloud unless it was a massive pulse. I think we'd be OK.
The #d channel on freenode is dead. There's 100+ people but no response in over 4 hours. That's a huge red flag for me.
Are you aware of any high-efficiency wood burners that don't require electrical power for the secondary air injection? If they do all require electrical power for secondary air injection, if power is lost, do they quickly foul the burners with soot, or do they just gracefully degrade to running at a lower efficiency?
Not true, due to tax incentives. I just looked up the difference between my PHEV and the equivalent gas-only version [1]. The PHEV starts at 43k€, the gas one (Cooper S) starts at 40k€.

[1] https://www.mini.pt/pt_PT/home/standard-selector/configurado...
A successful ECI must be officially addressed by the Commission. I agree they can just sweep it under the rug, but that's true of any "citizens' initiative" process.
Note to readers: If you're not from the US and confused about the 20 degrees (I was), note that it is Farhenheit and not Celsius! So around -6°C, which is of course very cold!

(edit: when you're on the internet, better to specify which unit you use, your audience is international)
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Bitcoin is mostly littered with bubbles and a hidden deflationary trend. Right now the 300% gains are just part of a bubble that is going to pop but Bitcoin will recover to a fraction of that, however that fraction is still higher than it started off. The long term gains per year are much smaller than the bubble gains. I wish people would stop "bubbling" Bitcoin and actually look at the long term trend like people do for stocks. At least I hope people research their stocks and ignore the last 2 years of gains when analyzing a stock or index fund.
> My main grief is that surprise is only obtained with a combination of visual effects, fast rhythm and loud sounds

It would be interesting to see a Pixar take on Stalker, a famously slow film, discussed just recently [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126004
Randall Munro worked briefly for nasa during/after college but has been full time on xkcd since then (2006). He never worked for the Simpsons.
I wonder if window['exposedObject'] = {... would work.
I think it's really interesting to compare the web to apps in this regard. In fact I wrote a blog post about this as a response to "The Great Divide"[0] a few years ago.

The core thesis of mine is that on the app side of things we've always had fairly thick clients where a lot of the "backend" complexity lives in the client. This has always worked, i.e. iOS developers are responsbile for and comfortable with both the UI/UX aspect of their job and the backend aspects. I don't really understand why the web would be different from iOS and Android in this regard. I suppose one stark difference is that both iOS and Android always had a turing complete programming language at the core of development, it simply isn't possible to learn "only" layout with iOS and Android. Although, storyboard and XML views are somewhat similar to CSS + HTML I guess.

0: https://hugotunius.se/2019/06/26/on-being-a-front-end-engine...
The flat packages from ikea are so amazing to me. Pretty sure no other furniture company has any that are nearly as compact.
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HUDs have an even longer history back to WW2 fighter airplanes. They didn't project much more than the gun recticle, but they were real optical HUDs displaying dynamic information. IMHO helmet mounted displays from the 90's(?) and later can be described as immersive AR displays, e.g. they don't just display information "floating in the air", but they can overlay information on top of real world objects.

Disclaimer: flight-simming armchair pilot speaking ;)
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The assumption here is that the Web equates hypertext: hyperlinked static text documents sprinkled with images and a bit of Javascript.

Ever since the inception of the Web by TBL, there was a drive to use the Web as a jumping board for "Rich Web Applications". Flash, Java Web Applets, Silverlight,... were all attempts to bring the functionality of native applications to the browser. They filled a space where browsers natively lacked API's.

They were also a threat to proprietary OS makers like Microsoft who sought to dominate the desktop space and what you could do with your computer in the late 90's early 00's.

It was the arrival of mobile devices around 2010 that upended the status quo. It created massive new billion dollar markets for new players like Google. It also introduced an entirely new technological paradigm which spawned competition between native mobile applications and web based applications.

All of that gradually coalesced around browser engines. These have evolved into incredibly complex beasts over the past 15 years with a cornucopia of API's and support for protocols. Just think about WebGL (look at the members of the Chronos consortium! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL)! Or how Microsoft decided to adopt Chromium for it's browser (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21066767/microsoft-edge-c...)

The end game here is much the same as it was back in the 90's: being able to control the sandbox in which both developers and users are playing. The difference being that you don't need third party plugins or whatever.

Front-end engineering is just an expression of this evolution. It's a specialist role who's goal is to build fully-fledged applications and UI's in the browser. And that's totally valid.

> highest paid roles in most agencies

Early agencies in the early 00's started out as "we build and maintain your website".

They were forced to pivot away from that pitch in a few short years. Either they moved towards integrated 360 communication, or they moved towards a specific niche e.g. mobile development, content strategy, UI/UX design, etc. This includes moving from building simple websites towards complex user interfaces to manage all kinds of data, content, and so on fluidly.

Sure, it's still possible to start a company that does "traditional" websites through frontend/backend development based on some CMS solution. There's still plenty of outfits who do just that. It's just that this type of engineering never did encompass the entirety of how the Web evolves.

I worked in a "traditional" agency around 2010. My former boss asserted back then that he doubted we would be doing the same thing, using the same technology, let alone we would still be around a decade from then. He was absolutely correct.
It may depend on the services. A few years ago I lost an old email account, a hotmail one, because it was flagged for being potentially compromised. An account flagged as so has its password wiped and you have to reset it by following a link that is sent to your recovery email address.

Somehow, and I don't know how my 10yo-self managed to do this, but the account's mail and the recovery mail were the same, so I wasn't able to recover my account this way.

The only alternative was to fill up a form with your full name, date of birth (probably lied about it at this time), passwords you may have used for this account, people to whom I had sent emails (I only used it to register to websites)...

I have never been able to do a "perfect score" to this test monitored only by robots. Now my account, from what I've read online, is probably disabled forever due to a 2 years inactivity.
That's a very familiar pattern. I'm not particularly happy when I let it happen though, as I miss the daytime and that affects my mood. Can't win!
Could you clarify what you mean with media?

According to my understanding a medium is a mean of communication, thus including text. OTOH it seams from your message that these are two complementary objects. Is my understanding correct?
as I said "structurally placed in their bureaucracy to be above the law", the NSA and the CIA are very much placed to be above the law in the US. Obviously pious people proclaim every now and then that nobody is above the law, but pragmatically these agencies often are.

The Utah Highway Patrol is not placed to be above Federal law.

If the EU passes a regulation forbidding the use of biometric surveillance the Danish National Police will be very much under that regulation, in the same way that if the US government passed a law regulating highway stops of motor vehicles the Utah Highway patrol would be under that law.

There may be some EU agency that because of various things would be able to operate above the law on this issue, but not the national agencies.
> It’s is more a reflection on you

You keep implying that i hold the view that modern technology is boring. I never say that.

> I used to think the iPod touch was the most exciting thing in existence, mostly because I didn’t have one.

Perhaps you don't have much to compare the status quo to. I would hardly describe the iPod as old enough to be part of the bygone era. Hell you can still buy the modern version of one.

> Point being, it’s not that things got boring, it’s just that boring is just how we feel about things that we have had for a while.

I'd be curious how you define becoming boring if not a feeling that the novelty wore off. That's pretty much a dictionary definition of "becoming boring". Regardless i think we fundamentally agree, as my take is that people view things as being boring largely because so much programming has become commeditized, where back in the day the field was less mature, so everything seemed like an adventure regardless of if you were looking for one.

Edit: reflecting on this perhaps my view has changed, maybe the difference is the slowing down of moores law (and knock-off effects of that), especially for single threaded performance. I could use a computer from 10 years ago now without much trouble (ignoring certain specific workloads like video games). I think it would have been much more of a burden to use a computer from 1990 in the year 2000. Even just look at ui differences, windows 2000 is a big leap forward compared to windows 3.0 (which didnt even have real multitasking, only cooporative!) or MS-DOS. Windows 7 vs windows 10, not that big of a difference. Things used to change rapidly in leaps and bounds. Now its slow (albeit still steady) progress.
> It's weird, the old ECI website collected directly your personal information,

It still does: see, e.g., the "No Profit on Pandemic EU" initiative [1]. Not sure why this one does the signature collection on its own domain, it sounds suboptimal.

[1] https://eci.ec.europa.eu/015/public/?lg=en
everything is true. especially the 200 OK errors. lol
Do you mean the repetitive strain on your patience caused by long compile times?
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It's weird because last time I joined a conversation about BTC on this very website pro BTC posters were insisting on the fact that nobody ever said BTC would replace dollars.

When you tell them BTC is slow and expensive they tell you BTC will never replace dollars so it's not a real issue, when you tell them BTC is a ponzi scheme they tell you that it will replace dollars. Even in the pro BTC group nobody agrees what it is, what it should be and what it should become.
This may be the most demagogic HN comment I've read in years.

> 40 million copies of a thick catalog with glossy pages means a couple shittons of not just trees but petroleum and petrochemicals for production, distribution, and disposal. Every year!

- What about about daily printed newspapers?

- What about shop brochures that we receive weekly in the mailbox?

- What about toilet paper and derivates?

I can't understand people congratulating the discontinuation of an yearly book (arguably an historic document) instead of focusing one order of magnitude higher.
OpenSCAD is pretty rigorous regarding defining relative geometry. Like shifting origin and sketch on plane rotated 30° around X. It leads to unnecessary math to place objects.
Ah, BlueJ...takes me back to Intro to CS where an entire class was spent on getting that program alone to run on everyone's computer.
you seem to be very disconnected with people who have these problems. There are no jobs for some people, they can't move, can't work in certain jobs, have mental, physical problems etc. also no, society maybe doesn't owe you a job, but at least in europe there's this believe that we care for each other and you don't have to work 3 jobs, the government just pays such a high unemployment rate that companies won't create those jobs because it's better to be unemployed than to work for this little money.
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I think parent says that +/-200ms is acceptable for snapcast, but unacceptable for lip-syncing.

I am not sure snapcast can't sync down to a few ms. If so, the issue would be syncing video with the audio clients, which certainly sounds feasible if integrated in the video player. That's what jellyfin does: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1011 (I tried to help a bit with that one).
>In 1926, it developed a 90-stock index, computed daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500#History

This is just a technicality however. In practice you have to buy stocks according to the index yourself or invest into a fund that mirrors the index for you. The secret sauce in ETFs is that algorithms do the work of the fund manager and thus reduce costs.
This is... a joke, right?
Can you use this processing-in-memory (PIM) to perform garbage collection in memory? (Like in this article from RISC-V board member Krste Asanovic: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/maas-isca18-h...)
Your concept is predicated on the assumption that there is and always will be a supply of living-wage jobs provided by “the market” equal to the number of people alive. That’s probably a wrong assumption to make.

And, what if everyone followed your advice to abandon low wage jobs and just get better ones?

- People need a living wage to, well, live.

- Therefore, all people should get better jobs so that they have living wages (instead of working 3 jobs or relying on welfare)

- As a result, there are no workers for low wage jobs.

- But everyone relies on these jobs constantly for the menial tasks we don’t like to do ourselves (like cooking or cleaning or farming or building things)

- So we do in fact value these jobs enough for people to work them. Otherwise our lives would be less comfortable.

As a result, we should actually be bringing the wages of these jobs up (to make them living-wage jobs) rather having everyone abandon these jobs for other high paying jobs which don’t actually exist.

I want to (eventually) eat out at a restaurant, and there aren’t enough teenagers to be waiters everywhere. So do I just say to every waiter that they should “get a better job”, and eventually run out of waiters? Ridiculous. I propose that if someone cannot make a living off of the service they provide, then we should examine whether we would rather do it ourselves all the time. If we do think it’s a valuable service, I’d hope we’d be willing to compensate in a non-exploitative way.
The goatse meme lived on until 2012 when the bbc broadcast an Olympic logo suggestion based on it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyTn3-bluk
> so overall it's not a major issue

... unless the extra peripheral heat loss freezes pipes.
We used a crossbow and fishing line to make it look like we climbed on a university building to hoist a AYBABTU banner. Took them the better part of three days to figure out how we did it.
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A starting point: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non...
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First, I must add that it is not my article. Just found it interesting.
Related to the language, it sais it is OpenCV. I don't know if javascript has access to the actual image data from the webcam, but if it does, it may work.
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With globalized world, many of us compete with people and companies from places with much lower total cost of life.

You can definitely manufacture an umbrella or a car cheaper in China or Serbia than in the U.S.

This means that there is a natural ceiling on wages in some sectors, unless people start "Buy American" even if the price of the product is considerably higher. Which, in turn, will lower their own purchasing power.

As seen in practice, most customers would rather purchase cheaper stuff made abroad by cheaper workforce. The E.U. has a lot of protective measures in various sectors precisely because they know that the same would happen if the restrictions were lifted.
You're absolutely right to think that we aren't actually paid that well. I mean don't get me wrong, I was a waiter for over a decade and I lived in poverty. Obviously I prefer my current situation.

Your labor is, by definition, worth more than you're getting paid. If it wasn't, your employer would fire you.
Isn't it pure survivorship bias ? The dropbox thing keeps on being mentioned but for 1 wrong comment about dropbox there are thousands negative valid comments about stupid and failed startups/ideas.
Here for example is Gmail's explanation:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en

CTRL-F "Send email to engaged users"

Some choice quotes:

- "Consider unsubscribing users who don’t read your messages."

- "Periodically send a confirmation message to users to make sure they still want to get your messages."
This is very very misleading. That bitcoin won't be used just once. After you give it to someone, they will use it too.
Here in Switzerland, there are tons and tons of measure points, and in my experience, the resulting predictions are fantastically accurate.

For example, here is one of the measurement stations in Zurich:

http://wetterstationen.meteomedia.de/messnetz/vorhersagegraf...

This is outside of the city center (to minimize effects such as radiant heat due to pavements etc.), so it gives a good base value to compare against.
Pictures are worth a 1000 words, but that comparison holds when a human with context is interpreting the picture.

Our eyes have the ability to input so much information which is what makes pictures valuable.

If you simply need to transmit small/simple data then text is the way to go.

I get what the author is trying to communicate, but it seems a bit arrogant
See data requirements for each country here: https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/data-requirements_en
She made that money by selling the image of Miles Davis that she did not have rights to. I suspect she and the client agreed on that image as pre-conditions of the sale.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024926
What are the incentive structures of Free Software?
Yeah, and the tiling background, the font. Takes me back in time to when the internet was younger and simpler, and so was I.
Could do it the same way JS did it, with const and let keywords. Breaks nothing.
Ooh, this is what I found wrong with their sofas! I don’t get it, I’m around 6ft tall and their sofas are way too low.
That's kind of weak. It is similar to implementation limits in C++ type checking. No C++ compiler will hang in an infinite loop either.
> What's your actual goal here - e.g. are you trying to learn more languages so you can get a better job?

Not as an end by itself, no; I want to learn more languages out of sheer intellectual curiosity, but most of all because I like building things, requirements vary by project, and I believe that it's good to have different tools to tackle them.

I work primarily in JavaScript and Python, but academically I've had rigorous exposure to C, Java and OCaml, and a few other languages to a lesser extent. I appreciate the benefits of dynamic languages but I sometimes miss the confidence and expressiveness of strong types.

My process to learn a language nowadays is to build a project with a large enough scope, solving a real problem (generally, a web app that I or someone very close would use). That way I keep motivation high and get exposed to a non-negligible surface area of the language and tools involved.

That's why I ask for advice on what to learn next - because I make a somewhat sizeable investment and I don't have the time to repeat the process that many times over the course of a year. Over the long run, I may have time to try all the things listed (and more!) but even then the question of sequencing (which one first?) is interesting to me... I'm young and healthy but I may not be alive in six months time.

> If by "growing" you mean you want a language on the left hand side of the hype cycle

Not necessarily growing as in the left side of the hype cycle, but in that it will likely continue having a vibrant ecosystem in 5-10 years time.

> Kotlin will serve you well - it has that Perl-like feel of it does what you want, unless you want consistency. I pity anyone who has to maintain a Kotlin app in 5 years' time, but it sounds like it'll do what you want it to.

Maintanability would be something I would certainly look for in a strongly typed language!

Thanks for your opinion anyway.
Where to start...

1) Stack Overflow caters to millions of users and hundreds of thousands of answer-writers (if not millions). This means that no matter what moderation rules you have, including removing the rules you don't like and yes -- also changing the rules the way you might be thinking right now -- _will_ have unintended side effects, _will_ leave some user disgruntled or puzzled, _will_ lead to some niche minority feeling offended or possibly discriminated. That's unavoidable and most suggestions usually given to SO are well intended, but completely off the mark. Leave that comment? What about the other thousands of self promoting garbage comments that were deleted?

2) It's amazing how someone with so much participation does not know one of the basic rules of SO: put all relevant information in the answer; comments are meant to improve the answer, not as a side note to it. It's not difficult, it's a trivial concept.