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Biden Continues to Defend Social Media Registration Requirement
Just no. I really don't understand this irrational, baseless fear. Water does clean.

- Fatbergs ( danger in flushing them )

- Hands touching excrement, then you touching other surfaces.

- No, an active nozzle can't get soiled the way you think. This is almost akin to thinking that a faucet can get dirty. The force of flow is a LOT larger than projectile acceleration no matter how bad those tacos where. In any case, most bidets have self cleaning, and anti microbial surfaces.

But sure, keep on smelling. it's your choice after all.
The author has a pretty good CV, but as his Wikipedia entry notes, there is a concerning history to some of his publications. The WP entry cites several expressions of concern, which are worth a read. See, in particular, the note at the link below from Retraction Watch (one of the better sources for checking a researcher's bona fides):

Researcher who threatened Retraction Watch with lawsuit corrects funding source for several papers
(https://retractionwatch.com/2013/10/17/researcher-who-threat...)

The argument made in the article seems well-supported, but I'm not competent to evaluate it. Given that this is an un-reviewed letter to the editor from a single (albeit apparently quite well-qualified) researcher, I'm going to wait for more (peer-reviewed) evidence before trying to form an opinion.
They know everything but they are completely unable to use it for advertisement.

The only time I had a relevant ad was retargetting (which is also hit or miss since you might have made your purchase).

The only people who know how to use it efficiently are the police when they want to arrest people who organize or participate in demonstrations.
So why pay anything at all and not just keep it merely about recognition, etc.?
Thanks! My only point here is to push back on any idea that GoF research on viruses is unprecedented or necessarily malign.
> Exactly the opposite for me.

Yeah, same here. I started my career as a huge dynamic languages fan, and Python was my favourite language for over a decade.

But now, after 20 years, I appreciate a static language with proper IDE support and code completion. Offload the work to the computer, that's what we do for a living after all.

However, after spending a year working in Rust, I think this can be taken too far. The safety guarantees in Rust are amazing, but the overhead for contorting programs to a form the borrow checker will accept, and the mental overhead related to async/await compared to goroutines is too much.

My favourite language is now Go, and I find it strikes a good balance between static checks and productivity. Rust is still a more elegant language in many ways with things like generics and iterators and their enum types (algebraic types I think is the term?) and zero-overhead abstractions and clean error handling. Go feels a little hacky by comparison. But it's simple and way more productive for me personally, so I prefer it.

Interestingly Evan Wallace (constexpr here on HN) implemented esbuild in Rust initially, and switched to Go and stayed with it for much the same reasons, but also noted that the Go version performed better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284

> But at a high-level, Go was much more enjoyable to work with. This is a side project and it has to be fun for me to work on it. The Rust version was actively un-fun for me, both because of all of the workarounds that got in the way and because of the extremely slow compile times.

After a year of working with Rust and switching back to Go, I second this. I'm enjoying programming again and finding it easier to put in long hours.
It wasn't that it was awkward, it was just very hard to reason from the number that corresponds to future profits in a complicated way down to current compensation in a principled way.
I'm confused. You somehow clicked through the order summary and confirmation pages without noticing that the total included unexpected hundreds of dollars in shipping fees?
One interesting dynamic: Nicholas Wade used to be a science reporter for the New York Times, but was cancelled after publishing a book on genetics and race. I wonder if being sent into the wilderness is part of what enabled him to publicize the unpopular (at least, in the mainstream media) lab leak hypothesis.
California minimum wage.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm
You don't need a knife backpacking either. I did 200 miles on the PCT without even bringing a knife.
No, even more modern stores, especially as it relates to online, are just starting to be better at it.
I've still seen where I have to pay shipping to send it back... which you know I can understand the cost of things... but also Amazon doesn't do this, and it's really nice. You don't have to even think about it.

We've had groceries accidentally shipped to the wrong address (our shipping address is different from where we live b/c the building contracts a 3rd party to deal with packages).
They either refund the order or send out a new delivery (mind you the other products are already delivered elsewhere and will eventually even make it to us... just with dead cold items), no questions asked.

It's things like this that make it much more comfortable to buy from Amazon than other places, as much as I would like to buy direct or from a smaller shop, etc.
Except my $3500 XPS 9500 (64GB RAM 2TB, 8 core CPU, Nvidia 1650Ti, 4K Touch Display) that thermal throttles so much that a 3 years older MBP gives much much better performance and I continued using that machine for work. Fortunately by switching teams at work I was then able to get a new Mac and I'm thrilled with my M1!

I spoke with a very nice person from Dell via Twitter who out of personal interest went above and beyond to help me calibrate that XPS, but no luck. Booting Windows is enough for fans to reach max speeds and thermal throttling to begin.
To say I am sceptical of the idea that we used to regularly wake up in the pitch black of night and do stuff is an under statement.
It was actually surprisingly seamless with Rust. "wasmpack" pretty much did it all for me. I added some attributes (well, whatever they're called in Rust) to function and struct declaration to show that bindings should be generated for these things, and from that wasmpack could generate JavaScript bindings! Unfortunately I was slightly limited by some libraries not working with WebAssembly, but I got around that fairly easily.
This model, for example?
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/product-reviews/electric...
You can replace history state without appending it
It's a little different. Targeting these days is more and more machine learning driven. So it's not really someone sitting down and saying "show an ad to anyone who stayed at a house with someone who bought this toothpaste". Rather, a bunch of data flows into Facebook and it uses those signals to decide who should see what. It's not a naive analyst. It's a statistical engine (and yes, that engine can sometimes be naive, and it's working off of really noisy data).

For example, any good Facebook marketer probably uses "lookalike audiences". You upload some existing customers and then tell Facebook to show ads to people who are "like" your customers. Facebook then used whatever data it has to find similar users (demographic, interest, geographic, behavior etc).

In fact, lookalikes can be so good that any good marketer also knows to _exclude_ existing customers from the lookalike audience (unless you're actually retargeting your existing customers).
> It’s all about who has the better 2nd option

Bingo. Know your BATNA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
Could anybody explain why the virus was previously considered, at least by some, a mosaic type [in an evident way], while this paper (and the research it's based on) considers it likely to be chimeric?
There are electronic files today for root canals but I had an endodontist once that still used a series of hand files. So weird to think about.
That is just the tls portion.
Why do you think they shouldn't be allowed? We have been using machines to kill for a very long time, and this is the first I'm hearing of someone having an ethical problem with the fact that the killing is not done with bare hands.

There may be ethical questions in war, but I don't see why the mechanisms should matter. Perhaps it should but you haven't even come close to making that case.
Yeah that's not what I want it for :) I would really like a sunlight readable laptop. But I don't want to mess with a separate keyboard outside.

But hopefully some day something like this will come.
Unfortunately many have also opened the doors to so-called third party marketplace sellers. It's making the experience of looking for items online worse. Some label this poorly, some offer no easy way to filter to only items sold by the actual company.
In the 90's wearing road construction worker gloves while skateboarding was the cool thing in Sweden, works pretty well. And now I use insulated carpenter gloves while bicycling in the mild Danish winters.
China’s 5G network is causing its carbon emissions to soar
Thanks, I stand corrected. Part of me did think 2005 would have been a bit too recent.
My two years of trips to Chernobyl in three minutes
I always found it difficult to put into words what I experienced during my trips to Chernobyl, which is why I decided to put it in picture.
They should also be required to return all fees few years back. If that would bankrupt them, then so be it.
Indeed. And with “normal” shipping fees, customers have an incentive to make one big order rather than many small ones, which is more economical and more ecological, I’d think.
Like the $7.63 a piece earplugs by 3M that turned out defective: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jury-finds-3ms-earplugs-cau...
Project Arrow Vehicle Design Revealed
You could buy the book that sourced those original titles to find out. Authors should be compensated for their work.
Give poor people money they will spend it and the market will figure out what they want and need faster then any rich person. We should live in a world where we rely on rich people donating to charities nor go fund mea for insulin (that fail and people die)
This article is from 2018 and was a crank take at the time, doubly so now.
GE feels left out!
French military takes the second lowest as a rule. So much better.
Wait, does this mean that I am not allowed to criticize someone just because I ... don't have their skills? That doesn't make any sense.

This paper is not peer-reviewed. It should end there.
But that’s just it, Walmart with all its money and might have a store and experience miles behind Amazon
For the most part I totally agree with you. That is why I enjoy leaving the comfort if my home to go backpacking in the mountains or something. Sometimes challenging yourself can make you feel more alive!

It is just that from personal experience, a road trip with small children has enough rough edges that road/engine noise so loud that the kids can't sleep does not have to be one of them...
We flew B-52s over Germany and Japan and dropped unguided munitions from far above. Britain flew bombing raids at night. Not sure about who was held accountable for killing the wrong people then.

Generally speaking, over time we have become much more accurate at targeting specific people to kill, but we are still a very long way off from 100% accuracy, and none of the issues you raised are particularly novel to drones.
I'm deeply skeptical of any 'science' that happens to perfectly fit an ideological narrative. Imagine the exact same thing with the opposite agenda, trying to show the virus didn't even start in China. In fact we don't have to imagine, there was literally a scientific-looking paper published as a pre-print which did just that [1]. Long story short the "theory" was that corona-virus actually came into China via imported frozen food (subtext: everything bad is a foreigners fault).

I know the seafood theory is bullshit nationalistic motivated reasoning. But I don't know how to refute the actual paper per se. I'm not a biologist. If for patriotic reasons I were predisposed to believe the sea food theory, and both scientists and the media were telling me the seafood theory is true, I might never notice how blatantly bullshit it is. Using the format of an academic article makes bullshit highly non-obvious.

So the lab leak theory. We have this thing that is very convenient to people predisposed to believe certain 'patriotic' things. The media seems to be picking it up out of no where for 'reasons that are surely free of agenda'. Some very academic looking articles have been published promoting the theory. If the 'science' going on here is actually just non-obvious bullshit mixed with nationalistic motivated reasoning, will I recognize it? Will you?

1. https://europepmc.org/article/PPR/PPR241540

Some context: https://www.firstpost.com/health/in-preprint-of-new-research...
The research is more to defend against bio weapons than to actually develop a bio weapon. A coronavirus wouldn't be an effective military weapon for a superpower like China or the USA. They already have weapons of mass destruction which are far more powerful and accurate with less "friendly fire" risk.
Fair. My point was that I was able to make python "behave more like a statically typed language" to make it bearable, but you're right, it ultimately is still a dynamically typed language at runtime, with the type ultimately bound to the value, and any untyped code still getting away from the "compiler" (which is just a type checker here), to wreak havoc at runtime.
Yeah it’s crazy, right? I couldn’t imagine walking around with toothpaste residue but it might also explain the dental work I’ve required.

Google it and you’ll see! I asked my wife about and she concurred that she doesn’t rinse but does get her toothbrush wet while brushing.
It's extremely easy. The controversy is about not being able to mention it in your app.
30k Euros is what I got with 5 years experience as a developer in Italy, and it's quite normal here.
I took a picture of a friend's headphones on Snapchat that they had left in my car. In the next week I started seeing ads for that exact model, and they were distinctly identical. Not a fun user experience.
I've ordered from [0] several times and can recommend them as an online option.

Only major downside is that shipping is expensive (unless you join their Amazon Prime equivalent, which is $99/month and doesn't really make sense for a household). I think my last order was around $30 s&h on a ~$200 order.

My workaround is that I save up a big wishlist and then order from them about once a year, and get friends & family to tack on any items they want as well.

0: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/
>Siegel’s team has shown that people who live traditional lifestyles in Namibia, Tanzania, and Bolivia don’t fit with any of these common notions about pre-industrial dozing. “People like to complain that modern life is ruining sleep, but they’re just saying: Kids today!” says Siegel. “It’s a perennial complaint but you need data to know if it’s true.”

One of the unspoken consequences of the modern PC culture gripping the academic institution is a hesitation to recognize that different ethnicities evolved in radically different environments for thousands of generations. The result is poor quality work like this reference, which presume that indigenous Subsaharan African or South American peoples are an adequate surrogate for pre-industrial human behavior. The reluctance to control for the understated confounding effect effect of genetic lineage is, I believe, a significant contributor to the seemingly contradictory Brownian-like back and forth of many biological sciences.

There are consequences for greater society. It is rather unlikely, for example, that a single food pyramid would suffice as a recommended diet for peoples who originate from environments as diverse as African Savannahs or Arctic Tundras. The result would be disproportionate morbidity for some ethnic groups.
Hmm, I can't seem to find these anymore, but I definitely remember seeing these. So I'm either losing my mind, or Amazon recently (in the past year) changed this. You are right though that it would be strange for purchasing more than 1.

Thinking about it more, maybe it was duty fees (since I'm in Canada and some items from from the US). That would make more sense as those would scale with the items maybe? I specifically recall though seeing X + Y$ on non-Prime and then Z$ on Prime.
> Pretend the initial comment didn't say LAMP but just said "web app". That's clearly not useless, right?

Yes. Yes, it is useless.

> You can tell from context that it must be software, but "web app" is an obvious improvement from there.

No. No, it's not. It still provides exactly zero context, and contributes exactly zero to the discussion.

> But surely it's still at least as good as "web app"!

Yes. Yes, it is: it contrbutes just as much, nothing.

> Also "that vague description" was referring to "cage with an engine and wheels".

Are we still talking about a top-level comment on a link that says "Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"?

So, let me see your alternatives:

- "Phabricator is a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application."

What does this contribute, exactly? Nothing. It's an out-of-context statement that doesn't describe what Phabricator actually is, and why this is relevant to the actual news, of, you know, "Phacility winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"

- just said "web app"

What does this contribute, exactly? Nothing. It's an out-of-context statement that doesn't describe what Phabricator actually is, and why this is relevant to the actual news, of, you know, "Phacility winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"

So, no. It's not "better than nothing". Because it is just that, nothing.
The irony here is that anyone who has actually served would gladly tell you that half the military grade stuff they had to deal with is utter junk.
It’s hyperbole to say Bitcoin has no social benefit. It, at least, allows individuals to exchange payments between each other online without needing the consent of any private corporation or monopoly. Maybe it’s not the most efficient way of doing it but decentralization has a cost. I think we are all patiently waiting for better alternatives.
I never buy anything over $150 on Amazon, because the pricier the thing(s) you want, the more it hurts when it doesn't arrive at all. Not that I would be happy losing $150, but it's better losing that than $1500 (or more!).

I also drip feed items to my doorstep instead of doing one huge order with many items in it, that way I compartmentalize the order so that if a small order doesn't arrive, I can live with it. This should be common sense, but some people are so impatient that they have to have everything in one big order rather than span the items out over time.

Also if I want some expensive gadget like a laptop / iPad or whatever, I go to my local brick and mortar store for that. Buying high-spec luxury goods on Amazon is a bad idea.
Hard to deduce much from the article. Is it that it's a NN where the individual components are physical transforms?

> On the MNIST handwritten digit classification task, the trainable SHG transformations boost the performance of digital operations from roughly 90 percent accuracy to 97 percent.

It is hard to take it seriously, when 97% on MNIST is achievable with the kind of tutorials bundled at the end of PyTorch installation guides - "see you can make a DNN model in 10 lines of code!".
Exactly, that's part of what I mean by "set up".
Maybe this

https://pypi.org/project/TMPPy/
Atomic Theory in Ancient India
Along the same lines, I recently reviewed a junior engineer's design document and pointed out to them a diagram showing the actors, their roles and interactions would have saved two pages of dense, complex text, and made the solution clearer.

"A picture is worth a thousand words.."
The minimum you request should be a number that would actually make you happy and content to accept the job. The upper number should be a high ball that you yourself don't actually expect to get. It shouldn't be some outlandish number way outside of what someone in your field can attain. This gives the company room to bid for your expertise with other companies without having to worry too much about putting yourself in a position like the original poster. And yes, I kind of think of it as a game, but an important, open and transparent one. The range you put forth leaves room for interpretation and makes the company uncertain. If you say one minimum number and they want you, they will pay you that minimum number. If you give a range, it opens the door to the possibility that they will pay you more. The more that they like you and the more that they are worried you might accept a competing job offer the more likely they are to bid more.

There is lots of advice that says to avoid giving any number. Sure, you can try to do that, but in my experience it comes off as a more aggressive tactic that may leave a bad taste in their mouth. I'm not sure if anyone else recommends this strategy, but anecdotally it has worked well for me. You still need to do research on what your field pays and you need to understand how well you do whatever it is that you do.

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Over time, being assertive but not overly aggressive in salary negotiations will pay huge dividends. I've heard of far too many stories of timid engineers that accept 5% raises or salaries for new positions year after year. Each one of those small increases in salary puts you further and further behind the curve. Companies don't ask what the history of your pay raises are, just what you are currently paid. Getting more now, means getting a lot more later. Early in your career if you are good at what you do, you can be more aggressive than later because it does not impact the balance sheet of bidding companies much. I had a good 4 to 5 year stretch early in my career where I was making >50% more than I was the previous year. Switching companies usually meant bigger increases in pay, but not in all cases if you prove yourself to be a valuable asset. Doing what you do well is still extremely important and if you do it well enough, the ROI of hiring you far outpaces your salary and companies will gladly make that investment to hire you and to retain you by keeping you happy and productive.
Many people have been known to use these Electrolux mixers for decades, I have one that's 30 years old, working perfectly.

https://www.electrolux.dk/kitchen/small-kitchen-appliances/k...
In that case, you really shouldn't fly in commercial planes to begin with.

In case it isn't obvious: the number of people who can be triggered to be violent in the right circumstances is far higher than the number of people who have been so triggered. It's probably a significantly double-digit percentage of the population.
To add support for this:

In Japan there's a word that literally means "second sleep". 二度寝 (ni.do.ne)

It's a word still in common use today.

It simply refers to when you wake up in the morning but still feel tired or groggy so you sleep again.
Keep Up with the Jones
Is it safe?

Is it safe?

Is it safe ... to discuss... this delicate matter ... now?

Is it safe?

Terrible toothache coming on.
When there is no light to be seen between the actions of the present and previous administrations in matters of personal information privacy, we should all be alarmed.
Oh, er, sorry for the harsh words, anyway I hope they didn't come across as too harsh.

So I think you're saying the papers you linked to where "bullshit with hindsight", not that they were unethical at the time. Or at least you didn't think they were.