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Writing math in Word has the following disadvantages:

- referencing is a nightmare (this is probably the worst aspect). \label and \ref or \eqref? No, remember the equation number, click the References tab, Cross-Reference, select "equation" from the "Reference type" dropdown list, scroll down to the equation whose number you should remember, click "Insert". Did you add remove/an equation, thereby changing all subsequent equation numbers? Let's hope "Update all fields" works on the first try (hint: it won't).

- AMS math standards, \mathbb{R}, \mathcal{R}? No, \doubleR, \scriptR.

- \bar{x}? No, \bar SPACE SPACE left-arrow x right-arrow.

- \begin{align*}? No, good luck. (Actually I haven't even figured this one out).

- Version control? No, "Track changes". Oh, you changed a subscript or superscript? Your file is corrupted and cannot be saved, Ctrl-z until you can save and hope you remember all your changes.

- Seamless math typing if you are fast and proficient at LaTeX? No, Alt+= and hold on while I catch up. Did you go too fast? Sorry, Word has stopped responding. (This is a real problem in a 50+ page Word document full of math.)

Those are just the ones off the top of my head.

+1 for TeXmacs being superior to both Word and LaTeX. After using LaTeX for years I tried TeXmacs for a week and never looked back.
In relativity, the speed of light is the only constant speed; therefore, in which reference frame are you going at e.g. 10c?

Perhaps the CMB is the preferred frame of reference for all motion and this problem has a trivial solution (I am not a physicist), but everyone I’ve seen explain relativity starts with “there is no preferred frame”, and the rest follows.
There are decent (free and paid) third-party clients that make Reddit a much nicer experience on mobile. On Android I was a big fan of Sync for Reddit, and on iOS I've been using Apollo.

Every once in a while I'll open up the official client and I'm just blown away at how bad it is. It's constantly trying to get me to watch livestreams of people doing random things unrelated to my interests. Why would I ever want to watch a livestream on reddit?
>> It’s because the most active parts of Reddit’s user base prefer it this way.

While that may be a common user preference, it's also a strategy at at large companies. Shit, even a small brick and mortar store doesn't want you to leave the store because you may find what you want elsewhere. The web as it started out is the opposite of what any company wants.
Even then, its usually overpriced. I remember some years ago there was a cannabis bust where I am and they announced that they seized X amount and it had a street value of Y and I was just thinking those guys are getting seriously ripped off if that's what they're paying because anyone I knew selling it was charging a lot lot less.
I've been having success with Dropbox/Dropsync into the Obsidian directory on my android device, and I know some folks have been using Syncthing without a hitch. The paid Obsidian Sync is just the only one they promise to "fully support" since they can't bugfix other apps, as far as I know.
But it can also have a different effect. If you don't reply, the requestor does not know if you even read the message, so they might try resolving the problem by themselves. However if you say "I'm busy, will check later" they know they don't need to even try, as you are going to resolve the problem for them. That's the best case. Worst case, they'll report to their manager that you're "blocking" them and they aren't able to work for the next 30 mins because of you.
"If exponential growth is so fast, why did my two pennies only turn into four?"
I suspect you're exactly right. I actually wish he would've said why the sandals specifically helped him because my immediate reaction was also, "what?"

Here's the article about it that has a picture of his sandal setup: https://cyclingtips.com/2021/06/lachlan-morton-just-rode-two...
I just finished a ride from outside DC to Pittsburgh over 3 days, ~365 miles(587km). So 10% of Lachlan's ride. I had saddle pain after day 1, so I stood on the pedals more. This quickly became knee pain, due to the extra exertion on my joints. So I transitioned between standing and sitting, and then my shoulders and arms started hurting :)

Mark Beaumont[0] has said something along the lines of "fix every problem early". I should have gotten chamois cream instead of standing up.

Anyway, all that to say I have no idea how Lachlan could do this without falling apart. Really incredible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Beaumont_(cyclist)
I have to admit, I'm a little perplexed about all the discussion around the Delta variant. It almost feels like people are discussing this like it's a plot point in a novel, a new looming threat that comes after Act II, rather than a cold scientific fact.

As someone who lives in New York and has been vaccinated for months, should I worry about this? It seems like the answer to that question is no, I shouldn't.

Also notable is that walk-in instant and free vaccinations are available everywhere in the city, I see signs all the time when walking around, so anyone (who's older than 12) who isn't vaccinated is making a clear choice.

I really do get that other parts of the world don't fit this description, and that there's subtlety to this and it's complicated. Like I really get that.

But what are articles like this trying to convey? They seem to be telling me that I should feel differently than I do now, and that I should take different actions than I am taking.

But what are those arguments? What's the intent of writing an article like this?

I see the takeaways section at the end but it doesn't feel like it matches the tone of the rest of the article, which seems to clearly imply that letting your guard down on COVID is a mistake. The first sentence sends that message clearly, saying "I don’t think people are paying enough attention to Delta".

I disagree with that thesis statement, I think vaccinated people with no policy authority who are overwhelmed and often in mental crisis after a year of this shouldn't pay attention to Delta at all.
> Facebook locking down their stuff earlier than that and then again when they had the perfect excuse because of HN and the media’s relentless attacking of FB for Cambridge Analytica

Facebook started locking their stuff way before Cambridge Analytica - I'd say by 5-8 years. Even then, Fb acted like an open platform for games and quizzes, but locked down its social-graph while siphoning Google's (via one-way Messenger-GTalk/XMPP interop). That marked a turning point for Google's attitude towards openness as well, since open vs. closed systems exhibit something similar to the paradox of tolerance: closed systems will take advantage of open systems and smother them out of existence.
The quantum world constantly needs to agree on what the state of the macroscopic world is, there is a limit to the speed of that agreement happening, hence the speed limit on the spread of information (speed of light). There are contradictions happening constantly in the quantum world, but they are resolved either way.

Any contradiction would be resolved on quantum level even if it can be interpreted at macroscopic scale as breaking of causality.

The important thing for physics would be to better clarify what time is. Why is the speed of light as much as it is, why is there time dilation related to mass and why is the time slowing down for objects travelling faster.

My guess is that the quantum world needs more of its own time to agree when there are more objects (more mass) close to one another, or that a fast travelling object needs to "agree" with its surrounding more frequently, and that overhead is manifesting as slowing of its time.
> I don’t think people are paying enough attention to Delta

In the US probably. In Europe Delta has been followed closely even in mainstream media for at least a month.
Which is arguably even worse, because it goes on undetected and the code ends up producing incorrect results silently.
Yup, don't try and fix a problem they themselves don't understand either. Don't try to fix a problem if they just say they have a problem - see if they ask you to fix it (= offload it to you) or if they ask you a specific question that you can help or refer them to something.

This goes for non-work stuff as well; I see a trend happening (on- and offline) where people just posit a Problem, instead of asking a question or working towards a solution. Stupid example: people saying "I'm hungry" instead of a "Wanna get some lunch?" or solving the problem for themselves in silence.

There was a thing on Facebook as well (remember Facebook? That was a thing) where people would make posts or comments to the tune of "The worst thing happened today!" without explaining themselves, instead waiting for / fishing for people to ask "What's wrong???". It's a way to fish for attention in a sense.
Or, do your inference using an AVX-512 CPU:

https://NN-512.com (open source, free software, no dependencies)

With batch size 1, NN-512 is easily 2x faster than TensorFlow and does 27 ResNet50 inferences per second on a c5.xlarge instance. For more unusual networks, like DenseNet or ResNeXt, the performance gap is wider.

Even if you allow TensorFlow to use a larger ResNet50 batch size, NN-512 is easily 1.3x faster.

If you need a few dozen inferences per second per server, this is the cheapest way. And you're not depending on a proprietary solution whose parent company could go out of business in a year.

If you need Transformers instead of convolutions, Fabrice Bellard's LibNC is a good solution: https://bellard.org/libnc/
Its Wiki page shows where it has been since then; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant#Histo...
So, in practice, Google has been ordered to pay. As a European, I can't sympathize with the French newspapers.

Perhaps they can disable the news part completely when viewed from France or does this also include search results?
Not that I'm not impressed by Kafka and its stability, performance and scalability, but I see the same behaviour from our customers.

They specifically want Kafka, there's no real reason other than they need a queue, which Kafka actively states that it's not. At that point it gets really tricky to reason with the developers about why they might be better served by something else. Generally speaking it's not much of an issue, because Kafka will deal with workloads just fine, it's just weird. I have seen one customer use Kafka as a database, that works less well.

We do see the same with Kubernetes. The developers pick Kubernetes and at that point it's to late. They specifically want Kubernetes even if you could more easily solve the problem with Nomad, Docker-Compose, plain old VMs or EC2, depending on the problem.
According to chainanalysis, about 0.34% of crypto transfers in 2020 were for crime if that's what you mean by illegitimate [1].

1: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-crime-repor...
In india.

Since most countries limit travel, it'll take longer to get around
Which problems do Java and C# have that golang doesn't? Incidentally, both of them have solutions to the billion dollar mistake, which golang doesn't.
The answer to that is simply, if a child is going to put you in a difficult position or you can't afford it, maybe it's not the best idea to have one.

And I told in the parent post that this ends up in a downvote bath anyway so downvote if you don't agree and move on.
Government agencies don’t predict inflation. The “expectation” mentioned is a survey of economists. No info on who they ask, and there’s no reason to think those surveyed have any special insight beyond their academic training.
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Covid (original version) took several months to spread around the world without something public health measures to slow it down. The Delta variant took about the same time despite the fact that significant portions have a degree of immunity from the vaccines or previous exposure, and much less international travel.
> When you have to take months off at a time for each kid

Paternity leave is optional.
You're right, also the situation you describe is an ideal one. I might be skewed working for a company that is being "optimized" (it's been several years already). It's not like the financial results are bad, but the CEO assigned the middle management the aim of finding all non-essential jobs and do away with them. Before the pandemic we were throwing goodbye parties to a couple of people each month; now the most they can count are sad Teams meetings that make the thing even more depressing. The work of these people is being distributed among those left, with mixed results. The company is still great to work for for various reasons so basically everybody developed the skills and attitude I mentioned above.
>A separate report from the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that the big monthly hike in consumer prices translated into negative real wages for workers. Real average hourly earnings fell 0.5% for the month, as a 0.3% increase in average hourly earnings was more than negated by the CPI increase.

Wow, multiple stimulus checks, unemployment benefits and employees still have no bargaining power? What is going to happen to wages once all those people come back to work? Wages are not going to grow...

Okay, this is a clear case of stagflation. Meaning inflation isn't driven by wages, which is generally where a conventional inflation spiral begins. It is driven by the inability to increase production of certain goods, primarily cars and the inability to import goods. Cutting stimulus or raising interest rates won't make this go away because the underlying reason isn't monetary at all. The $50 billion subsidies for semiconductors do make sense in this context (even if they are a net loss from a tax perspective) and they address the problem at its root.
It's what interviews should be for, instead of "you've got 10 minutes to implement the best possible solution for this bizarre programming problem without access to any other resources".

And once you've hired them, it's what 1 to 1s for, instead of "give me a status update on all your projects".
Inflation doesn't happen overnight.
oof, I remember trying some runs in the sand before and had to stop much sooner than I would've liked. It really worked my calves in a way that I was not used to.
Can they enforce DRM on the videos through EME?
Until I read these comments I thought he was racing against a Peloton bike delivery and I thought to myself well that's going to be easy because those things take months to arrive.
When NYT references the work of The Intercept, as they have done recently, ought the NYT pay The Intercept? [1] And if I summarize the facts of a French news article, ought Google be disallowed from collecting my facts?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/climate/epa-pfas-fracking...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27527290 from just under a month ago, and with about 100 comments.
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There are questions, and there are questions.

You learn which to react to, it's an experience thing.

You also learn about people who want you to do something, only to have you redo it, and redo it yet again, until it's back to the original state. In which case, you learn to do nothing.

And there are people who think they are important, but in fact it's _your_ job that's more important. Postpone it, maybe they pester someone else or it can wait.
> if you don't support "having kids" in the first place

Let the parents pay for them, not me.
> A better example would be what happened with /r/ukpolitics and Aimee Challenor I think,

Would you mind expanding on this? I don't follow Reddit dramas any more.

> It will happen one way or another though, one day they'll make a decision too user-hostile and Reddit will have its very own "Digg V4" moment.

I highly doubt that. Reddit has far too much non-techie people, which tend to know less alternatives and don't punish bad design as directly as "we" would. More likely it will be a slow fade to unimportance, like MySpace or Facebook (the platform, not the company).
Or compared with similar technologies. Here's a very naive comparison between GraphQL, REST and RPC: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=NL&q=R...

They all seem pretty stable, although REST and RPC switched places in the mid-2000's
I don't think that's really the case. There are very, very few people who cannot take these vaccines due to allergies etc, and nobody claims the herd immunity threshold is anywhere close to 100%. To suppress it to the point that there are much greater threats in such a person's life only requires reaching that threshold.

Unfortunately, public health officials have admitted in public they are lying about the thresholds (e.g. Dr Fauci said he gave different numbers depending on what opinion polls were saying). However it's likely to be about 70%-80%, perhaps less because those numbers assume no pre-existing natural immunity, which doesn't seem to be correct. That means there is scope for very large numbers of people do decide not to take it if they don't want to, before herd immunity is threatened at all.

Double unfortunate, I feel like nobody cares about these things, because they see it as a chance to enforce collectivist decision making on people in the name of "society". The actual group safety arguments never come with concrete numbers to assist with the underlying intuitions and that is suspicious.
It's been in the UK news for some time now.

In Mexico (where I live) we had the first Delta cases a couple of months ago. It is now the main variant and comprises 90% of sequenced samples (although Mexico doesn't sequence enough samples).

https://outbreak.info/location-reports?loc=MEX
They might be useful if they were exponential moving averages or something that adjusted more quikcly, so that you can see the trend shift.

But in this case, you can clearly see the trend shift from the actual data anyway, so even that wouldn't really add anything.
Bad moderation can also drive away good people and good discussion.

I still tend to keep up with most Android news on /r/android but the mods there went super full crackdown on moderation the past several years, constantly removing threads for minor infractions of the rules, and breaking up good discussion in the comments section of a post because the OP was breaking some rule or another.
the sandals helped his blisters, but also he switched to flat pedals from clipless. That gives you extra freedom to move your foot to find a comfortable position, which can help with some joint pain. Me, I find saddle height is the biggest influence on my knee pain (too low, patella pain, too high, popliteal pain; my experience is from cycling from here in scotland to Corsica and back touring around france, among other tours. I'm a lot older and slower than Lachlan, tho)
Sorry, you're right. I switched it out.
why are we now with a "new term", and why bbc has chosen this, not mother/father?
@davidajackson There's Desech Studio which you can use to import the figma design file and then install the react plugin and integrate with it.

Here's the github repository for the plugin https://github.com/desech/studio-react
So, hug of death it is.
I see the article is well written. The problem is developed countries are doing nothing significant. They think if they vaccinate their population they are good. And they are supplying only some excess vaccines to developing countries which is like drop in bucket. And they are stuck on patents, greediness and all of these thing. I don't think the country where I live will have vaccines till 2023 and people here are already tired of multiple lockdowns and masks...
I really wished that my country had used the Arabic script, which goes from right to left. I am left-handed, which means that your hand and pen obscure the last part that you have written. Consequently, my handwriting is pretty horrible. I would expect that left-handed Arabic writers do somewhat better than right-handed ones.
I don’t think a few years is really very long when dealing with an economy of this size. I never expected hyperinflation, just runaway inflation.
Can't everybody get vaccinated in the US unlike the EU where you have to wait for your turn and can't buy vaccines? That would explain the difference
Yeah we know they're not the same, can you explain what you mean by that? REST and GraphQL try to solve the same problem.
We have enough fossils of "things that don't fossilize well" that if dinosaurs were feathered by default we'd know about it.
Last year? People complained about QE as soon as it appeared in the press more than 8 years ago.
Seen this first hand.

In the Twitter example, I understand the direct conflict with revenue, but it still seems like a bad long term play.

But I’ve also seen this in B2B, where the API enhanced growth, reduced churn, enabled sales and didn’t compete with subscription revenue.

But new wigs in the business wanted to chase something new.

And copying (and then restricting, as opposed to competing) API use cases became the low hanging fruit.

In the end it was shortermism, most of the wigs only stay for 2 years, and the cost to the business plays out on a longer timescale.
Haven't read the piece but I have read a few things by this guy that made me panic. I don't know if he was right or wrong but he has a tendency to be overly bleak.
Yes Covid kills, a lot. Also car accidents and air pollution kill a lot. I haven't gained anything from reading this guy despite all the good info, it hasn't given me any action items and I suspect a politician reading him won't gain anything either.
In the US the Delta variant has been in the news non-stop for months.

Once the vaccines began bringing the pandemic under control here, the Delta variant as the new big risk is what the news media began focusing on heavily. That began shortly after case counts exploded dramatically higher in India and gained coverage the further it spread around the globe.
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duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27818667
>They think if they vaccinate their population they are good.

What else do they have to do?
> I wonder why is it not made in such a way that it can collect high quality data?

Because it's made in such a way that it can collect all data from self-reporting as well. It's meant to be a tool find signals in the noise, not be restrictive or definitive.

> But right now, the covid vaccines are not even in the list of vaccines whos events are reportable under law

That list seems to be things which are legally mandated reporting -

"In addition, healthcare professionals are encouraged to report any clinically significant or unexpected events"

That doesn't mean other things can't be or aren't being reported.

> And [2] where they choose not to enforce data collections in name of promoting vaccinations.

What part of that link says that? Hard to tell.

> Well I guess anywhere in the world, the authorities will be taking a big risk by going against W.H.O.

Why? What sort of risk do you think it might be? What sort of power do you think the WHO has to suppress effective treatments in countries around the world?

Ivermectin, like HCQ before it, appears to have been latched onto by the antivax crowd with no evidence to support it. We do have some effective treatments now, like tocilizumab and dexamethsone, supported with good clinical evidence.
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Maybe, depends on the amount of effort they want to put into it. Right now, if I recall, they're just dumping the uploaded content into an S3 bucket and serving it back out (reddit-uploaded-media.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com).
In the EU for major countries you can get vaccinated any time, it's the same reasons as in the US some people just don't want to.
Other essays by the author are more overtly religious, and conspiratorial, similar to Peterson as well.