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For people like me who can't remember all 100k acronyms: "GIGO" is "Garbage In, Garbage Out".

I agree with the sentiment though - a lot of stuff on Amazon are not exactly what is written on the tin, and so when you read official spec of a component you may get stuff that's way off - noisy opamps, that sort of thing.
No problems if we just got serious about desal.
> The campy, stupid action movie aesthetic is sugar coating for what I found to be an interesting theme.

Hehe. I think you’ve got it backwards.

You have Rowdy Roddy lined up to do a film. You come up with a campy corny idea of him fighting about sunglasses.

After that, you come up with some off-the-shelf ‘theme’ to sugar coat the campiness.

Real honestly, I would have watched 2 hours of that sunglass fight. That WAS the movie. Best damn fight ever. Wish it had lasted two hours.
Overly dramatic articles like this do a disservice to helping convince people to be more proactive about climate change.

There’s obviously no data going back 1200 years and the temperature proxies used, like ice cores, or tree rings, haven’t been consistently reliable.

The truth is, no one knows what the annual temps of major cities were before about 1870.

Real scientists lack the hubris to be sure of basic truths like whether dinosaurs were warm blooded or cold blooded, how general anesthesia works, how great whites mate, or even why we sleep, much less the exact ebbs and flows of 350,000 daily temperatures.

So for these scientists to say they have an understanding of what the previous thousand years temps were before that, turns the science into faith and adds fuel to those who argue climate science is more religion than science.

Focusing on the last 50 years is more than enough quality data to definitively prove the world is getting hotter, start there. Then provide a list of 3 basic things people can do to help lower temps themselves.

ie,
Campaign for nuclear power.
Eat less meat,
Adjust your thermostat,
Change your tires,
Buy an electric car,
Buy better bulbs,
Plant trees with friends.
Discussion of uxn from a little while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27185950
It's a shame deep multi-decade relationships are so rare =/
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Manufacturing hasn't even moved overseas! It hasn't even really moved to Canada or Mexico either. The US manufacturing base has tripled since NAFTA.
> This current drought is potentially on track to become the worst that we’ve seen in at least 1,200 years. And the reason is linked directly to human caused climate change.

So, if there were worse droughts 1200+ years ago, what caused those? Of course, saying a drought is linked to warming doesn't make any sense. More heat should result in more water vapor, which should result in more rain.

What I like about the climate change nonsense is any and all weather phenomenon can be linked to it. Too hot? Climate change. Too cold? Climate change. Too wet or too dry? Climate change. There's literally nothing that can't be attributed to climate change in some way.
I think this is a fair comment and I wish people wouldn't downvote it.

That said, I disagree with some of what you're saying, and I also think there might be some stuff that you aren't aware of.

For starters, and perhaps my comment didn't illustrate this, but from my perspective, Valve's strategy is not to popularize Linux desktop. They did have SteamOS which they obviously abandoned/consolidated into Big Picture Mode. There are rumors of a handheld console that will likely be running Linux underneath, but I'd be shocked if the user ever sees anything but a Steam interface. So I don't think from that perspective that Steam particularly cares about a Linux desktop experience. They don't (to my knowledge) fund KDE or Gnome. They seem to want everyone to interact with Linux through the Steam software itself.

Additionally, to address the fragmentation points you are bringing up (which are clearly valid), Steam has developed a unified Linux runtime that ships with Steam on Linux, and developers can target that runtime for their games. So again, this is a distribution agnostic, desktop agnostic solution for developers. They only have to support one thing: Steam runtime for Linux. And I think that nicely solves the Frankenstein issues.

Now obviously if Steam never turns into a full OS, people aren't going to switch to it just to play games, when Windows can also play all those games, and supports office and Adobe software. So what the plan is exactly, I'm not sure. Valve doesn't seem interested in solving those problems, at least not yet. Perhaps they are just keeping the scope narrow to what they're good at (games) and hoping that others will solve those problems.
Many if not most universities are publicly funded quasi governmental institutions.
> Also, using the HTTP handler's thread to process business logic _blocks that thread_ and makes it unavailable until the logic is done running - which could take a long time

This is true.

> if your users in Bangladesh are using cheap $20 Android phones over 3G connections you still have the same problem and you won't be anywhere near 32ms.

This is of course the crux of the issue. In my opinion, either wait until the infrastructure catches up, or don't write an interactive networked service, for that audience.

Anyway, to at least advance the conversation, I searched for some big open source projects that use EventBus. (https://grep.app/search?q=org.greenrobot&filter[path.pattern...). Signal for Android is a good example (https://grep.app/search?q=org.greenrobot&filter[repo][0]=sig...).

Let's just take a look at the first class that appears in search results. "SqlCipherMigrationConstraintObserver." Okay, how in practice does this random thing get registered on the EventBus?

Oh look, it's a file that is just instantiating a bajillion classes: (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/app/...) Because dependency injection is stupid on GUI applications, and it messes with all sorts of benefits of direct invocation, they do direct invocation anyway. Except, instead of just like, calling whatever it is they need in SqlChiperMigrationConstraintObserver (or I don't know, just using a Subscription, it's literally called an Observer), they do the same exact work just in a more puzzling way, via instantiating in one class and invoking in... who knows where.

Again, this is why I say toxic. You're going to poke around the repos of what's going on when people actually use EventBus, and you'll discover, in the long term, that people will end up doing O(~direct invocation) work anyway, but stringly typed (or in this case, annotatively typed).

RxJava has its significant downsides. It's still indirect, it's very hard to debug call stacks with them! RxJava call stacks are meaningless. This is the right criticism. The wrong criticism is, "Bad developers can't handle it."
I admit I have terrible posture at times. When I want to move around I just let it recline freely and slouch about. It can be a little rigid, but I sort of flop around in my chair a lot, especially when reading and thinking. I then end up standing some at my desk, and I do sit correctly a lot too. It works out usually :)
Axis does not start at zero so the magnitude of the effect is exaggerated
Labor is only one part. The externalities are cheaper to deal with/pawn off overseas.
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There’s some interesting selection bias here; “survivorship bias” would be misleading in this case. Specifically, any crisis that _wasn’t_ so well-tuned to run against our species’ inbuilt shortcomings wouldn’t be so threatening, as we’d likely have addressed it and moved on.
You're tearing down a straw man friend, I didn't say anything about tutoring or homeschooling.

It'd mean the same thing it already means for 90%+ people - compulsory publicly funded education from 5-17 years old.
> The sudden drop in Covid cases in India as the clearest indicator to me.

What's the alleged connection here? Are you claiming that some non-trivial number of patients in India were treated with this? How many, and at what point after being infected? And just how did the treatment affect the case numbers? Generally you'd expect the vast majority of secondary infections to happen before the diagnosis, not after, so a treatment seems totally irrelevant to the case numbers.
I would MUCH prefer a subscription personally.
Not entirely sure you can claim that most university libraries go unused just because yours did.
It's the nature of banter constrained by a character count.

Beyond that, PG is a public figured with a huge following, not some obscure academic.
That's potentially misleading in a couple ways:

* By default, years before 2019 aren't turned on. 2016 in particular looks fairly close to 2021.

* At first glance, it looks like 2021 is plunging straight toward 0 -- but wait, the y axis starts at 1065. The whole chart only covers the range 1065-1100. This year's level is currently 98.3% of last year's!

Are things still bad? Maybe, but I would want an expert interpretation, not a confusing chart.
Depends on the subreddit, though. There are still good, very specialised subreddits. But yeah, stay away from r/politics or so.
This is an interview with the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology.

Youtube censored the full interview, but you can view it here:

https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/how-to-save-the-world%2C...

Edit: a quote from the "fact check" that thinks they debunked this claim:

>“When you are vaccinated, your cells use the mRNA (or DNA from adenovirus vector) to make spike protein in your cells. Your cells “show” your immune system the spike protein and pieces of the spike protein. The spike protein does not kill those cells, it is not cytotoxic,” Durbin explained.

This shows how the "fact checkers" didn't even understand the claim to begin with. Dr. Malone wasn't saying the spike protein is cytotoxic to the cells which produce it, but when it falls off those cells and spreads to other parts of the body (heart, brain, ovaries, etc.) it is cytotoxic to other cells.
All I said was there was a disincentive and claimed it's being wrongly characterized as 'unsafe' by the company that brought it to market. Are either of those statements incorrect?
Why couldn't the owner of the machine simply be suicided?
I don't believe that UK's Supreme Court can override direct actions by Parliament[1]. They can override "secondary legislation", regulations created by ministers using authority that Parliament gave them, but in that capacity they are ensuring that ministers follow the laws that Parliament created, not acting to reign in Parliament.

They can also declare that legislation violates human rights, but that declaration is non-binding. They are effectively just asking Parliament to go back and fix the law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Ki...
Thanks to the mods for unflagging this as of 1419 EDT Sat
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How are youtube videos by people who haven't studied biology since high school going to help medical professionals to fine tune a treatment?
It also looks a bit less dire when you display 2016.
Is there a prediction market going for whether the MPAA is eventually found to be behind this?
What are the main theorems in Machine (Deep) Learning? (2018)
Was that question written by AI?
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Lean's foundations are similar to Coq. I think the ergonomics are a bit better.

Most activity in proof systems is based in type theory these days, but set theoretical systems do exist, of which Metamath is the most mature. That said, Metamath is seriously lacking in automation, so there is an element of tedium involved. That's not because of any fundamental limitations, but I think mostly because people working in the space are more motivated to do things aligned with programming language theory. There was also a talk by John Harrison a few years ago proposing a fusion of HOL and set theory, but I'm not sure there's been much motion since then.

I believe a fully featured proof assistant based in set theory would be a great contribution.

[1]: http://aitp-conference.org/2018/slides/JH.pdf
apples with a crisp texture, when cooked, often have a rubbery texture. This is frequently desireable for various pastries because they hold their shape, but generally a mealy apple which softens when cooked is preferred for an apple pie or simple baked apple.
>If someone died because of a "Take Ivermectin and you'll survive COVID" video on YouTube, who's to blame?

But who is to blame for the deaths of thousands of people, who could have been saved by Ivermectin, which in all probability is happening right now, and has been going on for many months, if not for the censorship of W.H.O, Youtube and media?
> Why'd he get cursed with such a following?

My observation is that most twitter replies are pretty low quality across the board. Especially on politics twitter.
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Such experiences probably are easier to deal with for people who have some experiences with mind-altering substances (psychedelics, weed, benzodiazepines, relevant supplements like 5-HTP or L-Tyrosine) and observing the effects: you behave and think visibly different than "normal you" usually do but that still are you and in some degree you can keep your behavior and judgement in line with what you consider appropriate and relevant to your values or your usual character by means of a conscious effort.
This is fair.

Warranty and customer service abuse is one of the biggest reasons that shipping hackable hardware is a pain. For every 1 person who knows what they’re doing when they mod their device, there are at least 10 or more who will try to get customer support, refunds, or warranty claims going when they get in over their head after copy-and-pasting commands from the internet to mod their device.

I think it’s reasonable to expect users who modify their hardware to forfeit their warranty rights. The company making these devices shouldn’t have to warranty or support every untested, 3rd-party modification.
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It seems fairly clear from a licensing point of view that a bootloader is a separate program from what it boots (which can be pretty much anything). It does seem like something which could concern the community though. What if (in future) the bootloader only boots Prusa-signed firmware, and lines for programming the board directly are disabled in hardware at the factory? If Prusa aren't planning any user-hostile behaviour, they should act fairly quickly to keep their community happy.
It should come as no surprise that the right-leaning students who ideologically agree with the stated "controversial books" or ideological viewpoints of the hypothetical speakers do not want to remove them from the university library.

Also, it's a third of SOCIAL SCIENCE students, not overall student population, and the study has a terrible response rate of 7.5% which they themselves admit in part 4.1. Also, because it seems like bad faith editorializing by the OP, it's about banning books from the university library, not in general.

In other words, the study is awful and it doesn't prove any point, but because it's easy to spin it into an anti-woke censorship narrative, HN is going to eat this up.
It's also worth looking at the context - the students were given four specific scenarios:

1. Someone who believes that Islam is incompatible with the Western way of life.

2. Someone who thought there are biological differences in talents between men and women.

3. Someone who is against all forms of immigration to this country.

4. Someone who thinks that homosexuality is immoral and dangerous.

Only for #4 were as low as 66% against removing their works from the university library. For 1, 78% were against, for 2, 81% were against, for 3, 74% were against.

While that may still be troubling, it's clear peoples willingness to have them removed from the library depends significantly on the specific statement, and another way of presenting this is that the more clearly a statement was flat out expressing bigotry, the more willing people were to remove works by that person.
Much of the northern hemisphere was under ice thousands of years ago. Of course the Earth is warming, it has been warming since the end of the last ice age. 99% of the worlds ice coverage melted before 1900, and some people are ringing alarm bells because the remaining 1% is melting faster than whatever completely fabricated baseline.
I was thinking more along the lines of technology that can scan back through time, and record a person's neural patterns at the point of death. This would require being able to open at least observation-only portals through time, or that there exist some high-fidelity natural recordings of events on Earth encoded in some substrate in the universe, that last millions of years, and that are high-resolution enough to enable full copying of the past state of a human brain, that one day humanity could recover.

How such a feat could be accomplished, I don't know, but capabilities that seem impossible today may become possible with millions of years of technological progress, especially if the exponential phase of technological progress continues for a while longer.
I've always steered clear of the EB5 program so I can't really comment. Regarding your other questions, while not automatic, most PhDs qualify for O-1 classification and some type of self-petitioning green card, such as a national interest waiver or extraordinary ability green card, and funding, while helpful doesn't guarantee an O-1.
How about we generalize a different way: how many successful societies can you name, that became successful while pushing single-parent child rearing?
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Or maybe you don't understand California law. Most homeschooling families stay legal by registering as a private school.

Source: I homeschooled my sons in California for several years and participated on various homeschooling lists at the time.
Yeah: and disabling mitigations for an attack certainly wouldn't be considered "harmful" by anyone.
> After years and years of pushing American manufacturing overseas, suddenly Congress wants to entice them back with a tax credit.

It wasn't "Congress" behind the push to outsource everything to the point where many once mighty American corporations have become little more than a veneer of supply-chain specialists, the C-level suite and their finance finaglers. This was done deliberately and systematically by corporate leadership and driven by greed. I suppose some might attribute the root-cause to the rise of neoliberalism and the globalization of the economy. Whatever it was, it took decades to unfold and it will take decades to reverse (if that's even possible).

Congress won't be able to fix this mess by giving away a few freebies to rich, powerful, and profoundly self-interested corporations. They'll take the money, of course, in whatever form it's given. What they do with that money is literally "their business" and it's not going to serve anyone's interest other than the shareholders.
I've watched enough Aviation Disasters to know this isn't always good enough.
I can only speak for myself, but I checked my settings and the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications setting is set to "Off" and I still had this app pushed silently to my phone. What's even worse is there's no app icon for it on the device and it doesn't show up under your app list. I only knew it was on my device at all because I have auto updates turned off and it was in the queue waiting to be updated in the Play Store.
I wonder what the deeper thinking is here.

So right now China consumes most of the world's semiconductors but only produces a modest fraction of them. China is going through a whole of society effort to expand its semiconductor sector in order to not be dependent on anything the US can cut off via sanctions. China will expand its semiconductor sector, regardless whether it is economical feasible, because it is a matter of national security.

The countries that are going to be hurt by these US semiconductor subsidies are going be Taiwan, South Korea, Japan ... not China.
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I'm transitioning from engineering to product management. I've been using data to inform decisions I make. While I know SQL well, I feel like I'm lacking fundamental concepts for what to measure and how to measure it. Statistics textbooks seem a little bit too in the weeds for the moment. What books would you recommend that describe both how to think about data-driven decision making and practical techniques for applying these concepts?
"Roughly one third of 501 students at a single university in Frankfurt, in Germany where certain publications are required by the constitution to remain prohibited, are in favour of removing controversial books from a single named library" presumably -- while rather more accurate -- didn't quite make the weaksauce point we were looking for.
Hi Peter. Has the immigration situation for foreign CS PhDs wanting to get EB1 in the US gotten better? I had heard things had slowed down (with RFQs for clearly qualified researchers) during the last few years. What kind of timeline can one expect today? Also, I have heard Canadians are able to apply for EB1 without an H1B (I heard something crazy that it can be done while not in the country but also on TN). Can you pls comment on this? Thanks in advance.
I wonder if it's entirely unfair in this case. Custom firmware for 3D printers do not only brick the hardware, but can do real environmental damage (such as burning down the house[1][2]), so I don't think this approach is entirely unreasonable. It's not that uncommon to see someone modifying firmware to print material such as PEEK which requires 400c nozzle temperature, so this appendix could even be their legal protection for such cases (IANAL).

[1]: The most popular firmware, Marlin, has a feature called Thermal Runaway Protection which turned off the printer when it detected temperature has reached certain threshold. Prusa printers have TRP enabled by default, but some manufacture doesn't.

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/8ah96r/anet_a8_... this is about ANET A8, but flashing custom firmware with TRP disabled or with higher temperature limit may result in the similar situation (ANET A8 stock firmware don't have TRP enabled)
Please keep political and nationalistic flamebait off this site. If you want to make a thoughtful comment about geopolitical risks to semiconductor supply, that's fine. Leading with "After China annexes Taiwan" is trolling—by effect, if not intention: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Loeb did say, however, that this research provides only a glimpse in relation to longterm climate change, and, according to Nasa, that “it’s not possible to predict with any certainty what the coming decades might look like for the balance of Earth’s energy budget”."

Loeb may not be willing to read more into this study but I'm sure there are plenty who will seize on it as further proof we should "do something" :p
Wait, I was talking about high school. Do universities ban books too? How does that make sense?

And my point is that public libraries are simply better stocked than high school libraries to the point of making high school libraries obsolete.