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Yes. I agree with this complaint. The REPL is useful in some cases but in general I avoid interacting with it whenever possible. My impression is that workflow is highly task-dependent (perhaps obvious) but there are many of us who just want to write a script, run the script, and repeat.
The whole notebook doesn't recompute only cells that are dependent on the cell that changed. This is extremely powerful because you never end up with stale cells that are showing incorrect values.
> "excess deaths (including COVID deaths) exceeded COVID deaths"

Yes, that's what I meant. I didn't think it was ambiguous. Lots of people think that COVID deaths were exaggerated. There are countries (with not very many COVID deaths) where the number of excess deaths is less than the number of COVID deaths. There are even countries with negative excess deaths for the whole year, even though they had some COVID deaths.
Vaccine Skepticism Is Rooted in Beliefs, Not Ignorance
Lol why are you so mad that people want to eat vegan cheese. Maybe people just enjoy eating vegan cheese.
There were a few reasons to switch. I was working in the automotive industry where building anything is a race to the bottom. "How much cheaper can we make this than our competitor" was how design decisions were usually made. Software was the bottom of this list as manufacturing doesn't see it as a profit driver and mostly as an expense. I was in a pickle because I loved the projects I was working on... Ultrasonics, Radar combined with some sort of actuator or motor. Lots of FFTs, debugging boards, soldering, learning Altium and a great boss but I was always pulling nails to get money for projects. I knew I wanted to work somewhere else where the product was software / electrical hardware and I was having a hard time finding the right fit.

After talking with some friends who do webdev (Node, Python) I learned JS in a couple of weeks and got hired into a consulting firm where I worked for 6 months building a document search engine in C# on top of ElasticSearch. I now lead a team at a small firm that builds specialized search applications for different parts of the internet.

I now know of places that have the software culture (and software money) that do embedded systems well but I love what I do now with no shortage of cool problems to work on. Not sure if I would go back into embedded but I still dabble with Arduino's and Pi's.
Attribution is hard with digital attacks.

In hacker communities, it's considered best practice to avoid making enemies — a good policy.
Direct Imaging of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens (1 Km Resolution)
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Veggie Grill makes some great boneless buffalo wings
there is even a term for this in the legal system: an "admission against interest".

https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/admission-against-interest...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_against_interest

that is to say, when making a statement is personally detrimental to someone, and they make it anyway, that statement should generally be given a higher degree of belief than one that is self-interested.

so in other words, if the CIA denies that they did something bad, you don't necessarily believe that straightaway, because of course they would say that. On the other hand if they do admit they did something bad, then it's OK to believe them in that instance even if they've lied in other instances.

Now of course - in the specific case of the CIA they are a government apparatus, not an independent actor, so the fact that they say (eg) Russia did a bad thing isn't necessarily against their interest, it is in their interest for the US Government to look good and truthful. But as a general rule, it's important to look at the interests in a specific instance to determine rather than just assuming that because an actor lied once that everything they say is suspect.
American culture is a lot more narrow than being born human. Perhaps you should have said being born an American?
> He said "Excess deaths exceeded COVID deaths"

Yes, and this is the right statement!

Excess deaths minus covid deaths should be zero, because the null hypothesis is that covid is the only thing contributing to the excess deaths.

That there are additional excess deaths beyond covid deaths is interesting (and means, as I originally said, that covid deaths are undercounted, or that some other unknown force is killing people).

The statement you provide as an alternative "Excess deaths minus COVID deaths exceeded expected deaths", doesn't make sense. Excess deaths are already above the expected deaths.

Let me run an example.

Last year, 100 people died each month. This is the expected number of deaths. This year, 150 people died each month. This gives us 50 excess deaths. 40 deaths are attributed to Covid. So, 10 are of unknown origin. This is interesting!

If the excess deaths - covid deaths exceeded expected deaths, you'd have to have 40 covid deaths, 110 deaths of unknown origin, and 100 "expected" deaths, which would also be quite interesting, but abjectly terrifying too (the death rate would need to more than double).
great find. it might've been worth increasing the price though, to see if customers still bought them or not in practice. with a note on the table or menu explaining why the price increased.
> What makes that the actual version?

That it's milk with almond. Like "chocolate milk" is milk with chocolate and "milk coffee" is coffee with milk.
Check out my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26987286
The problem here is everyone dies, and having people die of lung cancer at an early age costs the healthcare system less than having them die of some other form of diabetes/cancer/heart disease 15 years later. The studies that talk about the costs of treating cancers related to smoking are not giving you a picture of what else the same people would be treated for before they die. Really the worst thing for any healthcare system is to have lots of elderly people going through expensive treatments to prolong their life, and after you end all smoking, you'll find you have even more elderly people going through expensive treatment, except the types of cancers will be more evenly distributed.
Someone also made an interesting Youtube video of the concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
/s woosh. LOL. ;-)

It's called tenement housing, in any case. Split the living room in half and rent the large walk-in closet, now a 2 bedroom is magically a 5 bedroom like an airline employee crashpad. :)

Some friends of mine were thinking about renting out an entire warehouse and constructing illegal residential tenement "apartments" in them.
> But man, “ban menthols because Black people like them” sure feels a little weird.

Because it's patronizing and soft bigotry of low expectations - something most of these policies either are ignorant towards or is the exact intention. It's a fact that menthol cigarettes attract youth. It's also a fact that "On average, African Americans initiate smoking at a later age compared to Whites." and "African Americans smoke fewer cigarettes per day":

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/african-americans/in...

So most adult blacks are making conscious decisions themselves to start smoking when they are adults. And since 86% of blacks and 46% of hispanics prefer menthol cigarettes over regular ones, the adults enjoy that flavour. But this ban is patronizing them as if the adult blacks are too stupid to think for themselves, so the politicians must treat them as they treat kids and make the decisions to take away bad things from them.

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-co...

Instead of making changes so that youth can't get a hand on it, they are banning it because according to their own set standards, somehow adult blacks and hispanics are unable to think for themselves.

Anecdotal but when I immigrated, it was the patronizing comments and policies which I found the most "offensive". It's like being treated as kids instead of grown adults who can make decisions and achieve great things on my own.

Also this ban will result in the same consequences as the "war on drugs" and weed bans. Intentionally or unintentionally, it will end up locking more blacks just like it happened in 1980s and 1990s.

Saying this as someone who's neither touched a cigarette in my entire life, nor do I like the smell of it or weed. But I find any such overreach by the federal government to be useless with bad consequences. Better solutions would be to legalize weed, menthol cigarettes etc and put efforts towards stopping youth from getting their hands on them.
The food science has been coming leaps and bounds year over year. I've only been vegan ~2 years and in that span Daiya released a new recipe that really closed the gap for great meltability
If you just eat an a local indian restaurant, you can find many dishes that are vegetarian from the source.
How can anyone look at the atrocities committed by every major government over the centuries of its existence and not see that large governments are orders of magnitude more sociopathic than the worst corporations? Its just a general feature of large and powerful organizations; shared by governments and corporations alike. Governments simply hold the power to commit larger atrocities.

Just look at how the city of Flint, MI poisoned their own citizens water while suppressing knowledge of their actions. [0] While in the grand scheme of government atrocities this actually appears relatively minor, this issue happened in very recent times.

One could fill pages listing government atrocities before even getting to basic incompetence and mismanagement. While inefficiencies happen in all bureaucratic organizations, governments hold singular power over their citizens in a way that no corporation could ever dream of.

This is not an argument against government. There are some services that only the government can provide. E.g., a strong military. Nor is this an argument against government playing some role in promoting general welfare.

I just personally would like the option to not be further dependent upon our government and would rather use my own economic agency to provide for my own unique needs. Many other people feel similarly and therefore reject this further intrusion of government in dictating our labor relations with employers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Easy! People have lots of different reasons why they may choose not to eat meat or dairy. "Not liking the taste" is one possible reason. If that particular one isn't your reason, then you may still miss the taste/texture of certain foods, so having a substitute helps.
These are all great questions, and the purpose of government and democratic governance.
So does vim though. I use on vim the same language servers as VSCode.
Aka the group that has to suffer the most from lockdowns while benefitting the least.
Probably your first time discussing these things on the Internet!
AWS Q1: 4.1 billion net revenue.

Rest of Amazon Q1: 4.7 billion net revenue.
Indeed good cheese is hard to find as much American cheese has a plasticky texture and bland taste. I've only had success with small dairy farms and stuff imported from Europe. Mount Tam is good.
covid might not be more infectious, it might just be less people have any existing partial resistance to sars-cov-2. Each year the flu mutates but it still has overlap with prior variants.

As sars-cov-2 mutates seasonal covid might end up less bad than the seasonal flu. Though there is no way to tell.
They do, they are attached via FibreChannel or SAS for example. FC offers 16Gbits since 2011 and SAS 12G since 2013 (and of course even faster versions since then).

Though I would love a SATA-one for home use.
Just yesterday I was on a federal government web site (FWS, BLM, or some similar agency), and it popped up a window saying that the web site doesn't work in Safari, and I should use IE10.
Was that pre-pandemic or just a temporary policy to make things easier for cleaners in the evening?
I built this for my ~1.5 year old who loves music: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1341470798825984001 .... a Raspberry Pi keyboard (no screen) with stickers on the keys that controls the Sonos.
A Sharp Divide at the Supreme Court over a One-Letter Word
> Unlike Covid, kids are a significant vector of spread for influenza

Kids are significant spreaders of both influenza and Covid (after school reopenings, in many countries kids become one of the top sources of inter-household Covid spread). They just tend to have mild or absent Covid symptoms and didn’t require regular testing for work etc., and therefore did not get consistently tested in most parts of the world. In some places parents deliberately avoided testing their kids for fear positive tests would interfere with their in-person schooling or extracurricular activities.

Repeated claims that kids don’t spread Covid were politically motivated and based largely on junk science.

Admittedly doing good studies was extremely difficult in places like the USA where spread was wildly out of control and contact tracing was completely overwhelmed.
We have already banned alcohol in US a long time ago. That didn't last long, for very good reasons.
There's a product called Hop Water that hits a perfect spot for me. No alcohol or calories in it, and it is refreshing and hoppy enough to drink either by itself or to cut the oilyness of many bar-type foods.
I don’t think they’re seen as evil monopolists, as you’ve described. That’s quite frankly just your opinion because Apple won’t let you do what you want. Again, you’re talking around me. My argument is I buy their products because I know my device can only execute programs they explicitly signed off.

>just like all the other inmates.

You’re arguing in bad faith and launching into personal attacks. :)

No one is crushing competition in the app space. Don’t do bad things and I’m sure Apple will list your app on their App Store. Your exaggerations of monopolizing are merely that — exaggerations. We have 13 year olds selling apps or giving free apps on Apples App Store. They literally brought the idea to the masses and executed it flawlessly.

If you don’t like it, you’re welcome to go create your own phone and your own App Store. No one is stopping you, and no you’re not entitled to run whatever code on peoples phones... especially when those people don’t know what they might be downloading.

Since you’re venturing into personal attacks, I’m not going to engage any further.
Doesn't seem to support Handshake, .eth, or Namecoin.
> If you think about it, this will further incentivize poor-quality software as responsibility of vulnerability response is now being laid on the product owner.

Not really, this is more about transparency of all components and letting people downstream be aware that there is an issue and either fix it, mitigate it, or raise the issue upstream. My guess is that this is related to Allan Friedman's SBOM work at NTIA (sorry - this is not the most up to date link: https://www.csiac.org/podcast/software-bill-of-materials-sbo... )

The problem that keeps on getting hit time and time again is that both end users and product manufacturers do not know everything that is in their system. Consider the case of say, an MRI machine. What OS is it running and how up to date is it? If the end user has an SBOM they can better evaluate that and demand fixes if there are known issues. Likewise if the MRI manufacturer is good at making MRIs, but not so much at knowing if their version of Windows on the MRI is out of date, the SBOM for the MRI can be analyzed to automatically flag problems.

You can regulate all you want about "There must be no open issues" and plenty of certifications for the Fed government do have that language. The problem this answers is forcing a listing of every component so that "Sorry I didn't know OpenSSH v.1.2.3 is out of date" or "I had no idea we were running Windows 95 on this hardware" are no longer valid excuses.
Kindle browser is so shitty that nobody would use it.
I have never been on a train in the US that is faster than driving and certainly not on a train with food I’d actually want to eat. Perhaps west coast trains are total crap compared to elsewhere in the US but your description doesn’t fit my experience at all.

Chronically late trains, bad old seats (albeit better than planes), bad food, no WiFi or spotty at best, slower than a car, more expensive than a car.

Plus the most important thing of all is that if you don’t drive you will need to rent a car (which is even more money) or ride share (which can be extremely slow outside of cities or even non-existent)

I love public transit within a city but outside of dense cities it doesn’t seem to realistically make sense. My experiences with Amtrak don’t give me confidence in them.

I also don’t realistically see building out more rail in the US for any reasonable price so we are stuck with prioritizing freight rail over passenger rail on existing rail.
I'm curious what people think about Rust as a long-term investment from an employment/job perspective. Is it going to pay the bills for the next 10 years? I've been using PHP for the past 10 years, and I've never run out of work. I can't say the same about Elixir, which I very much like, but the job market proved to be scarce. Just wondering what Rust's future looks like. Thanks for your opinions

A note(since I notice my comment is getting downvoted): I've actually been spending time regularly for the past few weeks reading multiple tutorials, and getting familiar with Rust's concepts, and I really like the language and I can see that a lot of work has been put into developing it. But my concern is that there are other languages as well that have a solid background (OCaml, Haskell, to name a few), but that are still niche languages and suffer from the same scarce job market opportunities. Which proves that adoption does not always depend on how good a language is.
An interesting thing happened when category theory was used to model sets. It turned out set membership was problematic. When wearing your category theory glasses "parameterized elements" (subobject classifier) were the natural thing. Think tangent planes to a sphere instead of points on a sphere.
> Gramgram

which also means grandma :)
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> we should consider in future doing things like masking up when a flu season is expected, so as to stop the disease from killing thousands of old people

Some societies in Asia have been doing that for quite sometime.
How much money big pharma lost on that, is there a study?
For the good of black people, we're going to create a new class of criminal for which black people are overrepresented. For their own good, of course.
Touchscreens and tiny computers are cheap and getting cheaper. It’s easier than manufacturing specific components for “simpler” devices. I just wish companies would stop pretending like it’s an advanced feature rather than a cost-cutting measure.
Uber mowing co does not manage them or fire them. They are a marketplace where a large amount of customers who trust Uber to negotiate prices on their behalf the cost of a ride from A to B and have that trip made available to willing drivers.
They banned menthol vape juice in my state so I bought a big bottle of menthol flavoring and some "Koolada" flavor that I just add to some tobacco juice.

I bet the same thing would work for cigarettes.
There are critics saying that the PCR cycle thresholds they used for testing were too high (37-40). If you look at the values they use for determining covid post-vaccination, they used a cycle threshold of 28. Thoughts?
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/138783651725969408...
I think you're being charitable enough to read this universe's methods into that one, which aren't compatible (and this incompatibility provides the contrast).

For example:

I still feel like this way of thinking can work only up to a certain point. Don't you need to get to a more precise problem definition at a lower, more technical level?

Not really, no. When you're solving a problem, even as you get to a more technical level, you always keep in mind why you are solving it. I noticed that software engineers in your universe often ignore this. You fixate on some technical solution and then completely forget what is the context in which you're building it.

As you can see, this isn't the sort of mentality that gets you a general purpose tool. You might get JPEG, but you won't get ZIP.
The comment you're replying to never mentioned regulations or any governmental intervention.
Because stable jobs are boring, and I want to make life changing money - not just a steady paycheck.
The researchers in this story acted unethically - as academics. I'm saying it's not the culture difference.
We used to suffer (and yes I mean suffer) with Super Shuttle to the airport and back. Rideshare was cheaper, direct, and faster. I used the savings to tip the driver an extra $10 I was so pleased about not being driven all over the county before coming home.
If you want a small NAS in a similar form factor I'd recommend Helios64 5-bay NAS https://kobol.io/. It is an Arm64 board runs mainline Armbian. Also comes with 2.5Gbit networking and a built in UPS battery.

I don't understand why people who care about security and have linux knowledge would use Synology/QNAP. They are both proprietary, often exposed to the internet, and packed full of so many features that they are consistently full of vulnerabilities (SynoLocker/QLocker etc).
>That didn't last long, for very good reasons.

It was, and still would be extremely unpopular. The public health reason is as strong as it's ever been.
> As part of Beatportal’s new series on the history of electronic dance music, Marcus Barnes explores the rich history of techno, from the 1970s right through to today.

it's a series about electronic music history.
The victims of secondhand smoke aren't someone standing on the street next to a smoker but people (and pets) who grow up in a household with smokers. Whether or not the numbers are what they are claimed to be it's hard to argue against the reality that thousands of children are subjected to the very real harms of secondhand smoke their entire childhood with no recourse, especially when they are most vulnerable.

I don't say this to say we should ban tobacco because "think of the children" but I genuinely think people seriously overlook this aspect. Someone smoking near you as an adult might be obnoxious but children in smoking households suffer and develop lifelong health problems for a vice that is entirely out of their control that many people don't even really see as a problem or think about.
While Category Theory does make an extensive use of the language of diagrams, this in no way implies that it can be reduced to them. Category Theory is much deeper than graph theory. In fact, the very notion of a category should be seen as ancillary to the much more important concept of a functor (which, in turn, if you believe the word of the founders, was only needed to provide a base for a rigorous definition of natural equivalence).
Interesting! For me ESP8266/32 felt trivial to reach successful prototypes. With no prior experience it took me less than a week to create PoE temp/humidity monitors for a datacenter with Grafana and Prometheus.

In contrast I have stumbled quite a lot trying to learn the STM ecosystem. I find myself really wishing for someone to work with to help me get past the initial startup hurdles so I can be more productive.

I'm having trouble finding the actual code for the demos included in the STM3210C-EVAL or STM3220G-EVAL, or tutorials for making use of the myriad peripherals included on the boards.
Thank you! I'll have to try this. weird that it uses a less chili powder than I usually use in my meat chili (roughly 3 tbs for 2lbs of meat and a can of beans). Maybe I'm just used to a ton more spice. I could have been amping it up after going away from red meat