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When Robin Williams died, people were putting out images with "Genie, you're free" on it. This sort of behavior paints suicide as a valid means of escaping suffering.

When "13 Reasons Why" was released, it was criticized for romanticizing suicide as a tool to get people to listen to you "beyond the grave" or have some sort of impact.

While nothing has been confirmed by authorities, the behavior in this letter is extremely troubling, and seems to be the manifestation of how our society views suicide.

Instead of suicide being understood as a harmful decision that wouldn't be made in a better frame of mind, it's being portrayed as a valid decision -- and attempts at intervention are a violation of the person's autonomy. Or something to that extent.

There are other things I want to say and write, but I don't think it's appropriate until an official statement has been released from authorities.
Quite. It's very cold-war-esque. It has a definite soupçon of publicity about it, and mostly supports the government's narrative about them vaguely being competent – we did pre-plan a trip to navigate around Crimea [a place where the British haven't traditionally had the best time!] and we also plan to keep a toe in the fort in Afghanistan -- allies be damned. Conveniently, it also comes as Borris has just lost a Tory safe seat, his philandering and "hopeless" health secretary has just been forced to resign, and people across the political spectrum are fed up with him.

I am 99% sure Russia would rather have the leaks that highlight the crippling lack of ability in Britain's armed forces, caused by austerity, or a true impact assessment of Brexit. I also think it's very odd that the only papers leaked were these two: it's a strange thing to specifically print out these reports. I also think it's downright odd that they're printed --- most high-level classified documents seem to exist on secure, airgapped, immobile computer systems.
> who doesn't just toss args in a dict?

Me? Args in a dict, or worse, `**kwargs` chained through multiple functions, are awful to deal with.

I'm really curious about your stance. If anything, typing has gotten easier and better over 20 years. Types used to be verbose, you had to type out all characters, compiler messages were terrible. Now, type systems are better, inferred, flexible and structural subtyping is great. Type checkers are almost real-time. Autocomplete saves me keystrokes. Errors are helpful.

I used to hate types, 10 years ago, writing Java in Notepad++. Now I write python w/ mypy, go, and rust in Intellij, with lots of plugins to speed up autocomplete, and lint in real time.
Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna
Now machines are a great deal more powerful I think it is high time to revisit the question and introduce these mechanisms to protect the system and terminate ill behaved drivers or tasks.
Second this, especially for games. Avoiding the 30% and bypassing Steam and the App Stores is going to be huge for game devs building in Unity and Unreal.
How do you know the author knew Near's address or employer? They were known to be very secretive about such real-life details, and in this day and age it's very much possible to regularly meet someone but have no idea where they actually live or work.

Moreover, you're making a leap by assuming the author didn't try to save their life.
Roblox is just games platform. It is not creative unless you download roblox studio.

6-7 years old could use it to create obby game with adult guidance.
I think by reflow I really meant "maintain zoom between page turns". On my Kobo's default software, I had to re-zoom each page (so I installed KoReader).
>"To make super-strong glass, the researchers have long set their sights on alumina, an oxidized version of aluminum that happens to possess

some of the strongest chemical bonds on Earth.

Putting alumina in glass, the scientists hypothesized, would make the new material super robust. But in their first attempts, they struggled to produce it. When they tried to make glass with alumina in it, murky crystals of silicon dioxide would form on the glass against the surface of the container, so that the glass was no longer see-through."

PDS: On a side note, I wonder if Alumina would be a good future material to make semiconductors with...

On the one hand, Aluminum is a great conductor -- but we want something between a conductor and a resistor. If Aluminum bonded with Oxygen (as Alumina is) increases the resistance, then maybe what we're looking for is some version of Alumina with enough Oxygen to make it somewhat, but not overly resistant...

Or some amount of voltage, which balances Alumina's natural resistance...

Then maybe if it could be fabricated on wafers in nano layers...

Maybe some oxide of Copper or Silver -- would also work well...
I don't really know what to say here. I didn't know them personally, but I saw their work and was truly stunned. Most people don't achieve in their entire lives what Near (aka Byuu) did in their comparatively short one. To say I was impressed is an understatement. I simply don't have the words.

What happened, shouldn't have happened. There needs to be a wider discussion of responsibility of hosting providers for the actions of their customers, and especially Cloudflare for shielding illegal acts. But that's a discussion for another day.

Tonight, the sky is darker, for the loss of one of its brightest stars.
What is the advantage of the engines further from the central axis?
Obviously we don't care about that. We care about having HN threads stay above the bottom of the internet barrel, to the extent possible.

If you would please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nah it just isn't good. Or especially bad. Like I said, Discord is just There. The only reason to use it is because others are already using it. But nothing about the product design jumps out as "good."
Oddly the good stuff wasn't much affected. I was making a work bench and picked up a 4x8 of red oak plywood for under $60 in May. Not what I would normally use but half the price.
I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you elaborate?
Have you written anything about that (in longhand!) - what was in the design for digital/handwriting crossover?
>is a scourge on open source

I wouldn't say so, unstructured complaining really doesn't help at all. If the project has been around for a while then the flaws are usually well known. Before you lodge a complaint, you'll want to check the bug tracker to see if something has already been discussed. If it has, then the flaws have already been pointed out, and further complaining upon that point does nothing and only serves to annoy the people working on a fix -- the best thing to do there is to start contributing and collaborating on a fix to the issue. Then once you do that, you'll see why it's not helpful when people keep bothering you with "is it fixed yet" type comments :)
"Because the storm occurred with very little warning, many factories weren’t able to shut down properly, resulting in polymers congealing and solidifying in the equipment"

Wow, I'm surprised there weren't back-up generators if power failure means machine destruction.
> And all withdrawals must be processed by T+2.

I've never seen this notation before. Does it refer to blocks, hours, or (gasp!) days?
The one that called Xi a clown was not Jack Ma, that was somebody else. Besides, China's richest today sells bottled water.
Stablecoin would work, BTC or ETH would work. It's not that hard.
I'm a freelance composer, so selling is just part of my job description. However, I kind of accidentally stumbled upon a good way to get your sales skills up to snuff:

Craigslist.

I really enjoying flipping instruments or anything else I know I can make a profit off of. It allows me to "rent" something I want to check out for a while, but still probably make a profit off of. Take a topic you know about or enjoy, find cheaper-than-usual examples of that thing (especially lightly-broken things that just need a bit of TLC), and then flip for a profit. You'll deal with all sorts of weird personalities, as is tradition with Craigslist, but doing just doing it on a regular basis really pushes you quite quickly to get your sales skills up to snuff. It's hard for me to even point to specific aspects of those skills in particular -- it's more a general mindset, an understanding of people's psychology, etc. You just get a feel for it -- or at least I did.
Antibody tests were only widely available in July-August, so people who got COVID in Feb or March often didn't have high enough antibody counts by that point to flag positive on the tests.
I don't believe this refers to caramelized onions, which are sweet and slowly cooked. It refers to onions fried at a high temperature until brown or turning brown. This can certainly be done in under 10 minutes and is common in Indian cookery.

I cook a Madhur Jaffrey recipe or two most weeks.
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Or just buckle down and view a new chance to learn something as an enjoyable opportunity. Dammit people we aren’t paid for being experts but the ability to become expert-like in new areas.
IDK about OP but this is exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have some good books/courses for the same?
Why do many meatspace drug dealers only accept cash?
> As "idealized physical time" itself does not have consistent ordering, surely this is impossible in real life?

It's possible when you have reliable clocks to provide time bounds, and knowledge of the physical system to provide space bounds to permit clock synchronisation to some accuracy.

If two external agents make requests that conflict or interact (aka are non-commutative), if the requests are close enough in time and separate enough in space, the lack of true global time (ie. relativity) means there will be no physically unambiguous order to the requests.

But you can delay the responses to non-commutative requests for long enough to impose an unambiguous global order on any external logic that depends on information in the response.

In effect, the "global time" of external agents events isn't a function of the instant when they make a request, it is an ordering function of the both the request and response events, which makes each external request take a time range physically. The ranges are managed to ensure there is a global order to any possible information dependencies the external agents may be using. In a way, this is a neat optimisation of vector logical clocks while maintaining the logic, reducing the dimensionality of the vector. This can be generalised in large distributed systems to partial dimension reduction.

When the system has clocks that are synchronised across the internal system to some accuracy, "close enough in time" can be resolved more accurately, and the required delays to disambiguate requests that are close together in time can be reduced.

It is possible Spanner might develop an inconsistency near the event horizon of a black hole. Something to watch out for.
Based on the European rules, they might have some success claiming exclusivity on ‘Atlanta cola’ (though Coca Cola probably wouldn’t want them to do this, as any company making it in Atlanta to a specified standard would be able to use the name).

Honestly I assume this is more or less why the food industry resents protected names so much; it’s perceived exclusivity/specialness, but not based on a brand controlled by a single company.
Indeed; Mac OS has supported easy entry of alternate (non-ASCII) characters on "self-inserting" keys with Option (which can be further modified with Shift) since the 80s. Granted it's a limited set, but they're useful. Here's a sampling “” … ™ Ω ç ß ∂ ∑ † π «» ¬ ˚ ∆ ƒ ∂
I created this account so that I can share my experience.

TLDR: check out Dr. Aziz on YouTube.

I am 40+ and happily married. But it was a long road to happiness. It is easy to suggest things but almost impossible for people to understand where you are coming from.

I was shy in college but then I discovered alcohol, this allowed me to have fake success with opposite sex. When semi drunk I was confident and would start dancing with anyone. That led to a few wonderful nights and friendships. But when not drinking I was nervous wreck around beautiful girls.

And I was hooking up with girls that had nothing in common. There was no way to maintain relationship in long term. And I would have crush on one girl but would be able to talk to her, sober or drunk. I would see her hookup with asshole friends of me. They would describe women they hookup with in such degrading terms that it would literally make me cry.

This is when pick up artist book came out, and I learned about “oneietis”. Basically, I realized I was getting obsessed and it was not healthy. I am not endorsing pick up artist culture, It is ugly. But it helped me get better at being more confident. I joined some shady group of losers like me. But we would push each other to go talk to women, in all kind of places, bars, malls, etc. some of us got really good. Most of us were just simple nerds and they found love of their lives. Some of us were assholes who used these techniques to hookup. It was very sad but I built confidence.

Eventually, I realized they key to be interesting. And to be interesting you need to be interested. I was no longer feeling alone. So I was actually pursuing my interests. I learned Rick climbing, scuba diving, started other hobbies. And I was confident to talk about them. That’s how I met a girl who end up my life partner.

Now I am older but I am still shy. It hinders my work. This is how I discovered Dr. Aziz. His videos help me overcome issues at work. I think he will help overcome social anxiety, so you don’t have to join shady world of the pick up artists.
Looking at the cryptosteel - am I missing something or do you need to securely store or destroy all the engraved letters you don't use? Otherwise someone who obtains the remaining letters surely knows exactly which ones are in your secure word store...
MCAS-like systems exist elsewhere, but MCAS specifically is worthy of criticism, as both an engineering failure and more importantly IMO a management failure.

Specifically with regard to the flight characteristics, MCAS is a band-aid on a problem created by cost-minimization -- the desire to avoid a hardware redesign (to properly accommodate the larger engines) and/or a re-certification.
> Types are Science

I think the author should read up on the scientific method.

Mathematics and computer science are not science (despite the name).
how much BTC are you willing to bet that you'll remember 24 randomly generated seed words? probably not much.. that's why parent was advocating "you just need to *write down* the 12 or 24 seed words generated by your hardware wallet"
I've seen it go both ways for various reasons. typically nothing to do with types.
Yeah, those WhatsApp investors sure lost their shirts…
Yeah but the changes needed are not exclusive for the A380, but fit the 777 and 350 as well (I think. At least the 777 and of course the 747 which is more common)

Most airports came before the A380, you'd change one/two gates at most.
> France, Germany and Italy, among other countries, now advise only one dose of vaccine for people with a healthy immune system and a confirmed previous diagnosis. Many scientists who have studied immune responses to vaccination say such policies are a sensible way to make the most of limited supplies in countries that are racing to inoculate their populations.

At least for France, their Infectious Disease professionals go further. They're of the opinion that a second dose in someone that's been infected (within a certain range of time) is subjecting them to unnecessary treatment, wasted time and side effects for no/limited benefit.

It's not to make the most of limited supplies.

Auto-translation (with some readability tweaks):

> If the second dose of vaccine has already been administered to people with a history of infection with SARS-Cov-2, the data available to date do not show any difference in the safety profile apart from the occurrence of more common systemic reactions.

https://www.has-sante.fr/jcms/p_3237271/en/strategie-de-vacc...

But questioning the value of a vaccine under any circumstances is ban-worthy in a lot of places.
> But Google now allows you to put your signing keys into their KeyStore on their servers. I guess you still have a copy and can verify an App is signed with your Key but since you didn't do the signing that isn't enough to ensure it was signed without modification.

In fact, Google is planning to soon force app developers to use this model, just like Amazon. Yes, it removes the ability for developers to know/control what code is running with their name attached to it, and it's bad regardless of who's doing it.
That is what I do. About 8 minutes covered in the microwave, not packed too tightly. It still takes a little over 10 minutes to caramelize, pan preheated and ready for them, but it cuts down a little bit and I can still do other prep work at the same time.

Also important to note that about 70% of the onion goes away. If you start with 2 cups of chopped onions, what you end up with can fit into a little over half a cup. Onions are mostly liquid, and that gets cooked off in the process. If I'm caramelizing onions for burgers, a single medium onion will yield enough for a generous portion on two burgers with maybe a little left over. Pre-cooked onion size is a lie.
we are losing our minds
BIP39 seed words are used to deterministically generate all of your private keys in your wallet. You don't have to store the private keys themselves. Remember that each address has its own private/public key pair, and addresses shouldn't be reused. BIP39 has been the standard for many years.

Hardware wallet is assumed to generate BIP39 seed words securely. If you don't trust the RNG, some hardware wallets also support adding your own entropy with dice rolls. [0]

[0] https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/verifying-dice-roll-math
And they are everywhere below 40m deep (or so) in soft bottoms. Is an omnipresent danger for small fishes. Mantis shrimp are also evil things. Pistol shrimps aren't more known because they are (fortunately) small, but they are very interesting creatures.
I can't agree. The article touches on (relatively) interesting and new phenomena. This particular thread was a disaster, but the repost at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282 got at least some ok discussion.

Yes, it was a lot of moderation work, with mixed results. Was it worth it? I'm not sure what you mean. I think we made the right moderation call, given the site guidelines and standard moderation practices, and given that, the work was just the work.
This has also been posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814

Although it links to a tweet rather than the Google doc.
> Javascript didn't need types

Have you heard about Typescript?
Did you read the introduction to the article? “The equivalent of asking an electrician to install a new power socket” is literally the point.
> I believe that Red Hat employees were some of the main contributors to Gnome, which quickly made systemd a hard requirement, forcing distros which used it as the default desktop to make systemd the default init system.

Yet another person writing fantasy, not facts. Systemd wasn't "quickly" made a hard dependency. It was a soft dependency for ages, then eventually the release team made a mistake around systemd-logind. I was part of the GNOME release team at that time. Still, GNOME runs without systemd. Meanwhile we had loads of discussions with loads of distributions.

Yet the things you write: quickly done, apparently lots of people were secretly paid by Red Hat, forcing distributions? All devoid of any facts, just emotions that dismiss the amount of work me and loads of volunteers have done.
This is like maven at function level with no SNAPSHOT versions allowed :)

How is recursion handled? To get a hash for a function you have to have hashes for every function it calls. Is there special "recurse" opcode?

And how do you update a function implementation when you have a cycle in the callgraph?
All I ever could do was add a line to rc.local that started a supervisor process to run my stuff. But I have many service unit’s as part of user-data.sh or cloud init and they work and restart on failure and are visible to other admins I haven’t talked to etc. it was surprisingly easy.
The study used 26 participants? Did I read that right?

What is the preferred sample size to back these sorts of claims?
Many of the FAA's comment point at Boeing trying to push the regulatory timeline along despite elements (specifically software/firmware/avionics) appearing to be not sufficiently complete. This isn't the same thing as the design being fundamentally bad, or even the implementation being fundamentally flawed - it's just not done.

What's not clear is why this is happening. To be clear, nearly all possible outcomes point at either a broken management, and/or engineering culture at Boeing, but all have different flavors. What points at it being a broken management culture (predominantly... this certainly doesn't rule out engineering problems) is this particular section:

> Citing a “lack of data” and the absence of a Preliminary Safety Assessment for the FAA to review, the agency’s letter declares that Boeing hasn’t even met its own process requirements.

> Boeing’s CCS “review dates have continuously slid over a year,” the letter notes.

This section indicates that someone told regulatory to start a TIA process with FAA despite having not completed a review of a vendor supplied critical component (ie, follow their own plan). This indicates that multiple areas within the company which should have been involved (engineering, quality, and regulatory, as well as areas of the company concerned primarily with internal development, and out-sourced systems) were likely all overruled. These are all areas of the company that are supposed to be setup to stop bullshit other areas getting through. All of them have slightly misaligned interests relative to each other that generally tends to keep stuff in check.

Quality is usually very very concerned with at the very least, following your own plan ('meeting its own process requirements'). No one at regulatory would have looked at these gaps (like not at least papering over missing their own process requirements), and thought that formally engaging would be a good idea.

As someone working in medical devices, this definitely smells like something that management rammed through. This doesn't absolve any of other parties/groups of responsibility though. It just means that you have a problem beyond just your documented process, or technical capabilities/competence.
As a JavaScript developer your career is a not dead but becomes a dead end at 40. At that point you must make a solid decision:

* Stop growing as a developer and do the same things forever (dead end)

* Enter management

* Go do something completely different.

There are plenty of technical challenges in that technology space to continue growing and producing amazing new things, but that exciting life is more commonly found as a hobby than employment. This is also a technology space with an exceedingly low barrier of entry and poor formal training, and so most related employment is directed to beginner tools to minimize disruption from employee turnover.

After 40 as JavaScript developer your ability to command increased compensation by switching employers evaporates and your increasing experience is of diminishing value.
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In some ways yes, in other ways no. I've looked at both, and there is always a certain amount of "ugliness" that comes with writing low level C software for Unix.
Yeah. I was offering up an example.
San Francisco Chronicle: 'The Covid lab leak theory is still probably wrong'
Were you looking for work when FB approached you either time? If so, why would you take yourself out of the running given you’re (I’m assuming) an experienced developer?