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Except not wearing a seatbelt harms noone but yourself, and frankly it's up to the individual if they value surviving a car accident.

I've had police tell me the rationalization for seatbelt laws is by minimizing ambulance use in crashes, it saves the lives of others and reduces traffic congestion. This is the reasoning put forth for making not wearing a seatbelt a ticketable offense. Last I checked emergency services like ambulances aren't even considered an essential service provided by the government, yet we're being nickel and dimed by the government on their behalf as something so essential we mustn't unnecessarily affect their availability.

Seat belt laws seem mostly about fundraising for local governments from where I'm sitting. When they have a budget shortfall, suddenly traffic stops are tacking on seat belt tickets like gangbusters.
It's odd. When people don't heed fire evacuations to try and save their homes they put first responders at risk and are lionized by the press.

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2009/08/14/bonny-dooners-b...
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Well beyond exploring - microsoft/STL runs libc++’s test suite for every PR, skipping a set of known failures (for product bugs, test bugs, etc.), see https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/main/tests/libcxx/expe... . (I work on MSVC’s STL.)
It happened to my wife, who was paid for 18mo and given lots of "options". People were steadily laid off around her until she was asked of she would work without pay? Because if you say no you're laid off and nobody wants that. I helped to convince her to quit. Company folded when she left ...
That's before a considerable amount of population gained some level of immunity. UK experienced relatively low hospitalization in their last wave.
> It's the local demographics that matter

The local demographics don't matter unless there's a serious impact on the hospitals. That's why we started down this road, remember? It wasn't to eliminate death.

> I don't dine indoors because the vaccination rate in my neighborhood is 39%.

Are you vaccinated? If you are, you're worrying about something that is irrelevant to you. Avoiding restaurants because other people made a different choice is silly.

> And, while I'm probably not going to the hospital knowing that I might put one of my unvaccinated neighbors in there matters to me.

Ever had a head cold or the flu? You've put an elderly person at risk. Sorry, but it's true.

You can never eliminate this kind of risk. If your standard is "I must never present a risk to anyone else, ever" then you're going to have a really difficult life. You can live that way if you like, but don't force it on me.
502 was fixed.

I'm actually surprised it handled a front page HN traffic spike on a $3 VPS.

That was a good test of V/vweb.
Re 1) and 2), is there evidence that there are less covid mutations amongst vaccinated populations? I'm no epidemiologist, but maybe covid would achieve vaccine resistance better in a vaccinated population right?

Regarding 3), Bill Gates wrote that ~70% immunity is all that's needed to eliminate covid. I'm curious for better info regarding that number too. It would imply that as many as 30% of people can remain unvaccinated and covid will still die out.
Still a lot of unknowns, but seems pretty clear that vaccinated people are less likely to contract and spread. So I like my odds better among a vaccinated crowd.
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> The big takeaway from these fires is that proper safety for EVs might soon mean not leaving them in garages

Just add a fire suppressant system to the Powerwall it's hooked on.
"assuming there's an offer" = "assuming there's someone willing to sell". Why can you assume it in one case but not in the other? If there's no offer, maybe you're asking for too much? As the top level comment said, the difference is your role in a transaction (when you're seeking employment, you're selling, when you're seeking chips, you're buying).
Dread to think of a Tesla battery fire in a garage with poor access for the fireworks.
I just love the concept of megastructures like this.

There is currently an ongoing story in Reddit's r/HFY short story subreddit that has one story thread taking place on a Matrioshka Brain built around a singularity in an alternate dimension. The massive brain, among other things, houses the uploaded mental engrams of all Humans, as a final "You can't get to us" line of defense against whatever threat might arise. Interesting concept, I thought.
It is interesting that many of the comments have suggested that JodaTime does what a "normal person" would expect in most of these odd cases, whereas you are pointing out that advanced mathematical concepts can define an algebra where associativity doesn't apply. Almost opposite points! But well taken.

One thing though: I think I was clear that I like Joda Time. It does handle these things better than most libraries. That is what makes it interesting to discuss. I could write a fun article picking apart some awful library, such as the old Java default library, but what would be the point.
> Don't give people medical advice unless you're their personal doctor.

How about if you've already gotten covid, and are eligible to go get vaccinated, go get vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
Another article recommending Mediterranean diet. The healthy Greek and Italian people I know seem to have coffee and a cigarette for breakfast. It seems traditionally food was tight and often in the winter they'd skip meals and go hungry, so Med diet is probably closer to intermittent fasting.
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Complex synergistic systems are notoriously challenging to understand. They can have multiple moving parts, with various intertwined causes and effects. But with our limited tooling, we often have to isolate a part from the whole to get but a glimpse at how it works. The approach is scientific, often clean and elegant. It's quite tempting. It also gives the illusion of predictability. I wish scientists would realize that sometimes, all they've actually discovered is exactly that, how the part works in isolation, with no guarantee that the sum of the set can predict the outcome of the whole.
> it is fair to speculate

Is it? Without cause or basis? If you had some of that, an expert might be able to answer your concerns. Comments like "it might give you cancer" only serve to Stoke more baseless fear.

And also remember that list of unknown adverse interactions is as long when contacting covid. Only that has a much higher rate of observed illness and death.
How did they force employees to use this mailbox?

They mailed these ballots to people at their houses. Literally that's another union complaint that folks who'd left the company got ballots because the cutoff for mailing happened before they left.

So employees would need to bring this ballot INTO the company and then use the mailbox.

The odd thing - the union is trying to make it HARDER for folks to vote. They blocked workers from just voting at the place they go to work every shift. Instead we have this big thing about having to mail in ballots. Then they block / complain about a USPS mailbox. What happened to voting rights? I'm also curious, who contested the 500 or so ballots that were not counted? Was that also the union?
> I wonder if it can be used for things like better random number generation...

Too slow to be useful, and the BCM283x SoC already has an internal RNG:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/char/h...

> ... or hardware-accelerated hashing

The TPM is on a really slow bus (33 MHz, 4 bits, tons of wait states). Even without any hardware acceleration, hashing on the CPU is much faster.
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"The coronavirus mRNA vaccines are a completely new technology"

There have been mRNA vaccines in human clinical trials for around 10 years and they have been studied for around 30 years. There are countless examples of other non-controversial medicines developed and studied for far shorter lengths of time.
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Consider the people for whom the vaccine won't work for, or will be less effective for, like anyone on immune system suppressants because of transplants, or some cancer patients/survivors, or those taking immunosuppressants and biologics for things like Crohn's, UC, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, etc.
A really cool project. Good luck to you.

One question: why can't the electricity be from nuclear power as well as renewables? The UN IPCC says nuclear is as low in carbon emissions as wind, and around 1/4 that of solar.
>Is it just because Ada syntax is unfamilar to todays programmers or is there something fundamentally unsound about Ada?

Every time I asked the same question the answer was syntax.
It's not completely manual. If you have cities A, B, and C and you have an existing route from city B to C, and you add one from A to C, it will automatically choose the optimal route by utilizing existing roads and connect the new city from there.
So? Get conservative doctors to endorse it. Or show outcomes and make sure risks are mitigated/taken care of.
Not directly related to the article, but it mentions one of my favorite games, Banished. The entire game, from the engine to the models to the music, was created by one developer. The dev log is no longer online, but I recommend scrolling through it on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201208071123/http://shiningroc...

(the posts in 2013-2015 are Banished related)

It's a great resource for anyone interested in game design, game development, or the fields involved in both (which is most).

Here's one of my more recent personal favorites: https://web.archive.org/web/20201208071205/https://www.shini...
Even if eggs are somewhat unhealthy you also have to balance that with the fact that they have every possible nutrient and micronutrient needed to create a living animal.

You could be getting trace nutrients we don’t even know we need.
Is there a Python package people recommend that has code for these kinds of calculations?
For me, the key to "mouseless" is going to be the Tex Shinobi[0]. I haven't quite worked up the confidence to buy one yet (partially because current mechanical keyboard still works frustratingly well), but I look forwards to the day I could get something like this for TrackPoint synergy across all my typing surfaces.

[0] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi
A couple of thoughts here. (1) There are a significant number of people relying on us reaching herd immunity because they either can't get the vaccine, or if they can get it they might not be fully protected by it. For that population, getting everyone vaccinated IS important and worth attempting. (2) More importantly, a spike in hospitalizations could threaten the healthcare system as a whole if we run out of ICU beds, exhaust doctors, expend billions in care, etc. The cost of the unvaccinated isn't borne just by them - its paid by all of us when they show up in the hospital needing expensive care, and/or we are forced to shutdown our economy out of concern over overfilled ICUs. That makes a discussion of mandatory vaccination completely reasonable, and not simply rhetorical.

We should have tied CARES Act payments to vaccination... I'm guessing a $500 check would have persuaded almost everybody to get the shot. In the end the ROI of herd immunity might have been worth it?
I did do the exercise. I'm not sure of the exact timeline, because part of it was me eating heavy breakfast ham & cheese croissants, but I also was eating eggs leading up to my wedding as part of the slow food diet to lose weight. I don't remember at which points my cholesterol was measured, but I did stop doing the daily eggs.
Yeah my total cholesterol has always been between 120 and 140. Not sure what the details are, but it seems to work for me.
> A lot of time is spent provisioning machines, white listing ips, setting up VPNs

That sounds as if the person dealing with it would be completely incapable of replacing a failing dev. system in a timely manner. Keep a few replacement systems ready and your IT has all the time in the world to deal with those issues without blocking anything important.

I can just imagine the people responsible for that mess dealing with cloud services: I am sorry but we used up all the cloud licenses management signed of on, we will push for more licenses on the next quarterly budget meeting until then have these leftover sheets of paper and this dried out pen from our office supplies.
Netflix has become an advertisement platform for certain companies/ideologies/people rather than a media streaming platform.

Which is a problem because it has no like/comment functionality that can (theoretically) filter false/exaggerated advertisement.

On the other hand, which media platform is actually not an advertisement platform? That's a whole another debate.
The same selection pressure exists for "natural" immunity.
You can find tons of used 10-40Gbps NICs on ebay for $50 or less. For a simple point-to-point connection with both sides having PCI-E slots that's going to be easier & cheaper to set up than thunderbolt will be. It'll also be more reliable & more practical since getting 40Gbps over Thunderbolt requires extremely short cables, whereas you can get DAC cables for 40Gbps QSFP or Infiniband up to 7M or so. And there's no confusion around what the cable can actually do, unlike the nightmare that is finding the right USB-C cable with the right signal integrity requirements at the right distance for what you actually need/want.
The point is that in the absence of really solid evidence we should make no recommendations at all rather than having recommendations that change over time.
Most people aren't doctors, epidemiologists, or scientists of any sort. Nobody can be experts at everything, so we rely on expert authorities to break things down for us. Since we're not experts ourselves, we cannot independently verify what the experts are saying, which means our relationship with them is built on trust. But what happens when a nation becomes so fiercely divided along political lines that we collectively stop trusting expert authorities?

What's more, people don't like being told they're wrong. They especially don't like being talked down to. When experts (and more importantly, those arguing on social media on behalf of those experts) use demeaning language to address critics and people with concerns, the people don't respond well. Some of them will begrudgingly admit they were wrong, but humans are not purely logical creatures. Many will write off those who talk down to them as malicious or corrupt and use that as justification to disregard what they say.

We all need to start showing more respect to one another. Be patient and compassionate when dealing with people who are currently opposed to getting vaccinated - even if they don't show you the same courtesy. It wont earn you fake internet points and you're certainly not guaranteed to convince them of anything, but you'll never reach them doing anything else.
Not sure it's as easy as adding a fire suppressant system to a garage.

In many tesla crash reports firefighters leave the batteries to burn for hours, as there's no nice way to extinguish lithium fires.
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I mostly agree, but every now and then there is actually a good reason to override/re-implement them. For example, let us say you are using virtualized components [0], so all available elements have not necessarily been rendered to the DOM (making Control-F useless).

[0] - https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized
In response to 'but its literally no different than having to get a vaccine to travel to certain countries', we literally (as in have a literal - written word - constitution) that explicitly prohibits the prevention of movement between the states in the same way that we do between countries.

There is a quite literal, and federally-mandated, difference.

You literally aren't even allowed to ask for someone's ID to cross internal US borders - but you think medical records, which contain just as much (if not more) personally-identifying information would be okay?

"Show me your papers, please."
My grandad always used to say "where there's muck there's brass" and I always imagined at some point that would include cleaning up space debris, whether to recycle the materials or simply clear space for others.

I actually love the idea of being able to hire someone to shift an orbital object into various orbits. It opens up the possibility of launching a proof of concept satellite or telescope, and not needing to worry about fitting it out with heavy fuel and thrusters. Just pay someone else to deal with that.

With a transport & servicing network in place, that opens the field for a range of centralised operations as well - refuelling depots, recycling services, production lines, it doesn't make sense for all of these to have their own dedicated transport networks.

Good luck with your enterprise, as space activities become more abundant, roles become increasingly specialised, and having a service dedicated to wrangling heavy objects about the place seems like a logical next step.
Why was the post flagged? Was it that people are voting to flag it?

I thought this is a pretty legit post pointing to a legit sociopolitical problem.
I was trying to be funny here! There is lots of room between "plus", which I think is misleading, and the kitchen sink name you quote. Although it depends on how serious the problems were, in this case I'd pick something shorter that still suggested rough edges.
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Healthcare is free in the UK. I don’t know where you’re getting the idea you need to spend “£5-6k” on it.

A lot of employers in the UK offer additional health insurance as a benefit, but that’s on top of - not instead of - what the NHS offers you.
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Fortunately I think we both managed to realise that before too many rounds of this ;-)
I disagree with the author on this one. While it isn't a perfect analogue to mathematical addition, neither is floating point math. The bigger issue is that calendar math is tricky and durations cannot always be converted between one another.

The correct solution in my opinion would be to have distinct types for this sort of thing to help clear up the ambiguity. Date and time are really tricky concepts to model though and it is a difficult balance between honesty/precision and intuitiveness for such APIs. One such clunkiness I've seen with KeepassXC is that it stores password expirations exclusively as timestamps. This is actually not correct for the common use case of passwords expiring on a particular day (since you don't know the time) because what if you are in a different timezone? This I think shows that you can't just convert dates into datetimes without problems.
> Describing FIRE as easy and saying that anyone who fails to do it is somehow less wise or immature is nonsense peddled by a bunch of people who retired early by writing "how to get retire early" blogs.

I haven't heard anyone claiming it's easy or that any failure to do it is due to a lack of wisdom or maturity.

I think wisdom and maturity are required, but that's not all that is required. There's also a fair amount of discipline, and alignment with the tradeoffs, plus a good helping of privilege and luck.

> "Get a high paying remote job from a young age with no student loans, move somewhere cheap, actually find a partner there, don't dare find someone that makes teacher or non-professional salary or has health problems or student loans, wait until you're retired at 38 to have children, don't dare have kids with health problems or special needs, and lecture everyone else about how easy it is." is perhaps not the wise and mature advice you think it is.

That's not even close to what I claimed required wisdom and maturity to realize.
Honestly, I think a lot of people here without kids have absolutely no idea that you need to prove immunization in order to attend school.

What’s funnier still to me is men (it always seems to be men) outraged that they might need to prove vaccination in order to send their kids back to school, publicly admitting that they’ve been fobbing that work off on their spouse.
Uh, someone correct me if I'm wrong on this... but aren't most Lithium Ion battery chemistries self oxidizing?

If that's the case, I don't think a fire suppression system would help.
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In the short-term this is partly addressable by not parking EVs in garages, and perhaps long-term by new safety measures on both EVs and on garages to contain potential fires.

But I have a related question: Are power walls also dangerous like this? They are also large lithium ion batteries.
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to prevent the spread of disease
A mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people together is the perfect environment for a vaccine resistant strain to evolve.
yeah feel like Covid is a huge setback for the re-use movement, shopping bags also, as seemed like finally were over the hump as far as adoption and normalization. All out the window now. Plastic bags as far as the eye can see