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> The thing that irks me about this is that I thought ballot initiatives like prop 22 were supposed to give constituents a direct voice, especially considering CA is basically a one-party state.

The issue with Prop 22 is in how it was set up.

- The state constitution gives the legislature the duty to set up a worker’s comp system.

- Prop 22 was voted on as a piece of legislation that denied the legislature the ability to set up a worker’s comp system, so the superior court denied it as unjustly limiting the legislature’s ability to function.

- The worker’s comp rules in Prop 22 were not severable from the rest of the proposition, so the entire thing was struck down.

There are two types of ballot initiatives in CA: ones that act with the effect of legislation, and ones that act with the effect of a state constitutional amendment. The threshold for the latter is higher than the former. The proponents of Prop 22 wanted the force of a constitutional amendment (changing how the legislature can create a worker’s comp system), but at the lower ballot threshold.
It is Pascal, which is then used to compile the original TeX code. See example of running TeX/LaTeX at [1].

PGF/TikZ is a very well written program. What impresses me is that it does have the right amount of abstraction. It comes in different layers, starting from the Front End (TikZ), Basic Layer (which TikZ) uses This layer is built on top of the system layer. Whereas the
system layer just provides the absolute minimum for drawing graphics, the basic layer provides numerous
commands that make it possible to create sophisticated graphics easily and also quickly.

The basic layer does not provide a convenient syntax for describing graphics, which is left to frontends
like TikZ. For this reason, the basic layer is typically used only by “other programs”. For example, the
beamer package (can be used for presentations) uses the basic layer extensively, but does not need a convenient input syntax. Rather,speed and flexibility are needed when beamer creates graphics

The system layer, and drivers then create the the graphics in various formats, such as postscript, pdf etc.

[1] https://tex.rossprogram.org/
Did 'the Wuhan lab' spend $606 mln on air conditioning/ventilation?
The reason I use Firefox for Android is the ability to use addons. According to this, they don't work on Apple phones: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
You clearly care a lot. I respect that.

My prompt for you: do you care about the people suffering, or do you care more about moral posturing & fist shaking?

If you care about the people suffering, drop me an email on richie@joinfella.com and I will help you however I can to empower you to tackle whatever you see as the root cause.
Of course.

That's the idea of flattening the curve.
It is a fraught comparison, but I would like to think that the Taliban has MUCH broader support in Afghanistan than the KKK does in the US.
I've been researching this stuff on and off for about 10 years. Here's a graph I made of Sandy using the same kind of tech but a previous project: [https://imgur.com/r/sandy/c87tV](https://imgur.com/r/sandy/c...

I also more recently made an animation of [Hurricane Dorian's approach to Florida](https://allclearweather.com/hurricane-dorian).

And of course, the barometer code for this on Android is an [open source library](https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary) I write to encourage other Android devs to do similar work. Cheers and stay safe.
David Elliott, police commissioner of the state of New South Wales: “You’ll also be endangering the lives of your loved ones and of course prolonging this lockdown. You’re going to be doing everything you want to stop.”

In other words: If you want to stop the rules, just follow the rules!
Isn't that still a human issue?
People need distributed consistent data for a lot of things besides configuration.
It’s likely the payoff is also to prevent apple from building its own search engine to compete. As googles payoff is so lucrative
We have tossed a lot of chemicals into the environment without really understanding what they might do. I’m not sure how we could have done it differently. Some effects don’t show up until you have mass exposure. The best we can do is ban things once we discover there is a problem.

The problem then becomes you have entrenched interests manufacturing those chemicals, which makes them hard to ban.

Somewhere back in common law we made the mistake of allowing private parties to pollute the commons. And now we have centuries of case law that are impossible to overturn.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/legal-tetris-and-fbis-anom-progr...

“ The Australian Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 (TOLA) allows government agencies to issue “technical assistance” and “technical capability” notices to providers of communications services. The notices require that the providers give the authorities help in conducting criminal enforcement intercepts, and that they make changes in their systems to ensure that they can give that help.”

…

“In any event, the FBI chose a curiously roundabout way of getting access to ANOM messages. For ANOM devices operating outside of the United States, “an encrypted [blind carbon copy or BCC]” of each message that a user sent was transmitted to a server located outside of the United States, which then decrypted and reencrypted the message with an encryption key known to the FBI. Those reencrypted messages were sent to another server that was owned by the FBI, outside of the United States.

In the summer of 2019, the FBI started negotiating to build the legal structure that would make this technical architecture work. In essence, the FBI went looking for a third country that would host the BCC server and could lawfully accept all of the decrypted messages and send the copies to the FBI. As the affidavit notes, “Unlike the Australian beta test, the third country would not review the content in the first instance.” This would have been a fascinating negotiation. Both participants wanted to make criminal cases and avoid privacy scandals. The U.S. would want to be sure that the third country had full legal authority to intercept the contents of every ANOM message, and that the country was also willing to share the full ANOM take with the U.S. in something like real time.”
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it looks like ripped off an existing product with added Bootstrap to it
I've had some success using the Kindle app highlight feature - highlighting key points as I go along, and then later reviewing just my highlights (which can also be exported). You can add notes to the highlights too.
> You think the economy benefits because lots of doctors, nurse, undertakers and whatnot get business out of it. But you are wrong.

The country that spends the most GDP per capita has the worst outcome for life expectancy of any industrialized nation[1]. There is no inherent monetary value to a human life in the capitalist system, as the data clearly demonstrates. The most ideal scenario in a for-profit healthcare system is to extract every dollar possible from each individual until just before they die, regardless of how old they may be at that time.

America does one better, and debtors can pursue the children of the deceased for certain medical bills in certain states.[2]

> Another fallacy to think the economy only consists of producing things

You can't consume digital goods without a physical computer. You can't get a service that is magically free of dependencies on infrastructure or electricity. There's certainly a scale of environmental sustainability, but you're always dependent on something in meatspace.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...

[2] https://www.thebalance.com/debts-from-the-estate-of-a-deceas...
>a booming economy

The economy was given a massive dose of Radiation and is currently in the walking Ghost phase....

it is not "booming" it is a false rebound propped up by money printer go brrrr and when reality sets in 2008 is going to look like a beach vacation...
I thought AMD had already brought chiplets to data center CPUs a long time ago [1], [2] and that is why they are leading currently, now that they have multiple generations of chiplet data center CPUs out? [3]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/keep-pace-moores-law-chipmakers-...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-epyc-processor-models-...

[3] https://www.wired.com/story/keep-pace-moores-law-chipmakers-...
Half of the nation would disagree.
“I'm working on a Playstation core for MiSTerFPGA”
Maybe I should have put the line beginning with "Google" in quotes. I did not author that statement, it comes directly from the Twitter page.

HN then changed the thread not to point to Twitter but to the Verge.
I say “follow the science” about Covid and Global Warming, for instance. Yes, that is a political statement. It’s also rational and reasonable.

I am a tester. Science is never complete, just as testing is never complete. But stupid people think they can ignore bad bugs and get away with it; and stupid people spin fantasies that maybe all those experts are completely wrong about Ivermectin or vaccines.

Trust science is just a way of saying “hey fella, there are people who have devoted their careers to knowing this. Let’s hear from them and take them seriously.”
I'm not talking about that.

I am talking about the link with photographs/video of his license plate number which is considered PII.
> A 0.2% infection fatality rate when treatment is available is pretty obviously not the only consequence of covid.

Fair enough.

Feel free to substitute the right numbers, but that is the question to be answered.

And that same cost/benefit analysis that should be done for any major problem -- opioid, tobacco, alcohol.
Surprised the article didn't mention that the main US witness has admitted lying for the US in return for immunity from his own crimes.
https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
Billions Stolen in Covid Relief Funds
Ask HN: New Platform for Software Tutorials
There was a post/launch announcement for a platform that allowed people to build software tutorials which were then hosted on the platform and people could pay for access to. I cannot find the name of it, nor the link. Does anyone remember!
There is not a single known variant that provably escapes vaccine protection. It is not inevitable and it has not happened yet.

Waning immunity has nothing to do with the virus mutating, it is just how the immune system works.
I’m talking about Hendersonville (north of Nashville). As for buildable land, not a chance right now. At least not at a reasonable price. My wife and I have been looking for land in Hendersonville for seven years, it’s awful. Old Hickory, the hilly terrain, and poor properly lines make it hard. It’s frustrating because our daughters all go to school in Hendersonville, but we live in White House.
> Keep in mind, using a screen is not relaxing

Why would watching a movie, sports game or playing a video game not be relaxing?
I desperately searched for the meaning of life
See also this Tweet [1] for how to convert between Chinese and Western measurement units

[1] https://twitter.com/crushspread/status/1428672304590901249
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> Web3 typically runs on IPFS which is like an upgraded HTTPS

So, there's one centralised portal, like with Google AMP? (Perhaps this is cynical.)
Yep I've just been reading up on this now actually: ghrelin & leptin changes after day 2 of a fast.
> Consuming information is not the same as acquiring knowledge

Yes but this:

> Getting the rough gist and absorbing the lessons are two different things.

I only partially agree with. I organize my knowledge using zk, and go through a) writing notes as I read then b) digesting them into ideas. Most books I read cover to cover prior to doing that, I remember only the gist of ; while books I occasionally speed read doing that, I remember in more details.

My point is: it's not just about "going on a trip" with the author, but appropriating yourself their ideas.
I think the schema is already there. You can read and understand it, right? So its has more structure for you than just entropy.

How to capitalize this is indeed a harder question. My mind gravitates more towards something like GPT3. If you fed it all your memories (expensive, I know) and gave it a prompt of "I was thinking about a funny gif with a dog and a mug in a room on fire", it'd for sure get you the this_is_fine.jpg. But the answer is not quite what I typically see myself wanting. Instead, I want to navigate this graph (the understanding necessary to make the connection from the prompt to the jpg in the first place) myself, and see what's interesting and non-obvious there. That's what I interpret as "being able to talk with your zettelkasten".
The inflation we see today is supply chain issues...

The Money Printing inflation is coming. The inflation from money printing today is almost all in Stock market right now as people took a lot of the money and either saved it (which institutions then invested it) , or invested it, This can be seen in the Money supply charts...

Watch though, as the supply chain issues get resolved over the next 12-24 months, people will start spending that Printed money, then you will see a second more sustained wave of inflation...
What? No, sorry, your comment is the nonsense. Not using an IDE doesn't mean 'no tooling', it just means 'different tooling we don't happen to call 'IDE''.

I think it's so blurry now as to be a pointless debate anyway - is VS Code an 'IDE'? Or is it an editor with a load of plug-ins available that give it equivalent functionality to an IDE? Because the latter definitely applies to vim and emacs and sublime too, and if it's the first, then... A lot of people don't use an IDE!
“if you want to connect with people at all, you've got to do it through the hellscape of social media. There are no other options. Everyone’s locked in.”

This seems extreme. Propaganda during war attempts to eliminate the populace’s willingness to fight, and this assertion sits somewhere between hyperbole and propaganda.

I thought the Bay Area’s economic growth engine is based upon never believing anything in IT is impossible. Maybe it’s a generational issue to think otherwise. If so, how the mighty have fallen…
Current life says that's not the case. Some of that may be supply chain issues, and they say inflation is at 5% or so, but most things have had at least a 20% price increase this year.

Edit: to poster below, it varies, very noticeable if you are traveling. For your cost of living, it's noticeable over the month if you are living paycheck to paycheck. My point is don't just "print away", inflation is a tax on the poor.

Car rental 87.7% (y/y change)

Used cars 45.2%

Gas 45.1%

Laundry machines 29.4%

Airfare 24.6%

Moving 17.3%

Hotels 16.9%

Furniture 8.6%

Bacon 8.4%

TVs 7.6%

Fruit 7.3%

Shoes 6.5%

Fresh fish 6.4%

New cars 5.3%

Milk 5.6%

Rent (OER) 2.3%
Nigerian National indicted for fraud on Covid-19 economic relief programs
Interesting. How long is eventually by the way?
When you purchase Bitwig, is it a one-off, rather than working on a subscription model?

Sad to say that's rather refreshing if so.
Most motor vehicles could attain those speeds, and 100 mph isn't illegal on all roads.

On a steep enough descent, a cyclist could get up to speeds beyond 50 mph, which really isn't safe given the equipment.
The Simpson's Paradox seems to refer to something else:

https://twitter.com/_MiguelHernan/status/1428014414666420230
Not necessarily. As long as your quorums always overlap you can have weaker commit requirements. See the FPaxos paper and some of Heidi Howard’s blogs for more on this.

https://fpaxos.github.io/
The Simpson's paradox seems to refer to something else:

https://twitter.com/_MiguelHernan/status/1428014414666420230
None of that explains how Australia could ever successfully coerce Apple into performing widespread surveillance of US citizens. The fact that Australia is a "five eyes" country doesn't make it any more plausible than if the demand came from China or Russia.
> most things have had at least a 20% price increase

Most things have not had anywhere close to that. The things that have draw more attention, though.
An interesting conversation involves listening and responding in ways that highlight important insights and help us all explore the subject.

I used to do that on Twitter. But conversations on Twitter are a lot like management by pure consensus— one person can ruin the dynamic by deciding a subject is not fit for discussion or by being unable to comprehend the subtleties of the topic.

So, to avoid flame wars, I rarely try to have an adult conversation on Twitter, anymore. And when I do I usually end up muting or blocking some random sod who got in over his head.
A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing
My point was OUR government can't be trusted with the money. You think the same people playing games with lives over seas just to funnel money to defense contractors is going to truly implement the system promised?

That being said, no I don't believe in socialist programs, Sweden was a pretty good example they aren't feasible, it crushed their economy and they are slowly reversing course. I think there should be safety nets, but the government should not be in charge of your life.

There's a reason America is the economic powerhouse it is today, limited programs, less taxes. Our private healthcare system is expensive but leads the world in innovation (cancer treatments, experimental drugs, vaccines, etc.) The American people pay for that R&D while the world gets it basically for free. I don't have an issue with universal healthcare, but we should lower costs first, not throw more tax payer money to hospitals and pharma.
That is not remotely related to what you claimed, genius. Try again
> "eat an insane amount of food. The food tastes 10x better, and the sensation when eating it is pure bliss"

This stuck out for me. Especially interesting that taste & eating sensation are both heightened.
Management is responsible for making sure that doesn’t happen, by retaining experts and demanding documentation and investing in ramping up new experts. Making the code bigger because each line does less is not going to save us from nobody understanding prod, and a short learning curve puts a low limit on the value of our staff (who quickly run out of tools and stop improving in clarity and productivity).
I wonder if they'll call it "glued-together". https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-slide-criticizes-amd-for-using...

The 4 die SoC does look an awful lot like 1st gen EPYC.
I've really never thought about that flip before.
Would be great if it worked for books sent to the device not bought through the Amazon kindle store
Ask HN: Do you have a home lab? Tell us about it
The simpler way to do that (that doesn’t assume/require you to ever be home) is to make any reconfigurations that should be possible-if-necessary, but not done on a whim, take 24 hours to take effect. Teach the user this in advance, such that they know that they’ll need to plan to set their phone into a new mode at least 24hrs in advance of actually undertaking whatever adventure needs the new config.

(This is the Animal Crossing approach to friction. Move your house? Sure, but it won’t happen for 24 hours.)
It's just a matter of time that the lobbies of these companies won't be strong enough to stop the justice from going after them.
> The calories-in-calories-out perspective assumes that the body stores every extra calorie you eat as fat. But this isn’t the case. Your body has the ability to regulate things like its temperature, and it has similar tools to regulate body fatness.

This one will be so hard to swallow for so many people. I actually assume it will never go away, and linger eternally in people’s mind as it’s a way too seductive myth to be resisted.
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I recently finished a weekend project for ai generated short stories (GPT-3)

https://toldby.ai

I'm always impressed by what it comes up with, though not all stories are 100% coherent.
Do experts in comp sci not write simple python scripts for small datasets?
It seems that the Linux Foundation has overstepped its initial purpose of driving Linux standardization. Is it becoming instead a shell for a wide megacorp[0] coalition, now jumping on the Covid train[1]?

And how about CBDC? It seems that there's a (strong?) link between Hyperledger and the WEF.[2][3]

I doubt Linus would condone such things! Oh, wait...[4]

Gah, conspiracies upon conspiracies :-) .

[0] https://linuxfoundation.org/join/members/
[1] https://www.lfph.io/
[2] https://www.weforum.org/people/brian-behlendorf
[3] https://www.hyperledger.org/event/world-economic-forum
[4] https://www.weforum.org/people/linus-torvalds
Well said. These are the kinds of nuanced conversations that our Fellas have with their doctor.
Give it another decade, and you might value your country's medical and social safety nets more than you do now :)
You don't pipe to bash on the first run. Use awk/sed without piping to workshop your commands. Once you've got them right send over to bash.

This is far superior to futzing with xargs interactive or whatever dry run feature they have.
The question is: What's the difference between un-/vaccinated people >60? Why aren't they vaccinated? Different opinions? Health-related reasons? Without this information, it's tough to draw conclusions.
Thanks, this is definitely closer to the original use of `egrep`! As for aliases, I prefer long forms because I don't need to think what the seemingly random collections of letters mean, and tab-completion / PowerShell ISE makes it mostly a non-issue when writing.
Wondering if this is going to bring some noticeable performance optimizations apart from the other benefits?
People write down contracts for proof. Without that, it's dubious if the contract even existed.

But proof is not relevant for a copyright. Even without writing, the existence of the copyright is not in doubt.
Worked at one place for 16 years. Never been married, but now I know what a divorce feels like.

So yeah, fuck that family bullshit.
In the interest of learning, could you provide some resources that explains the information flow?

I think I'm in the dangerous area of knowing enough about the subject to not recognise my own short comings, so I'd be grateful for any resources that helps me learn concepts I don't yet understand, or helps me understand, that I don't know enough about the subject to justify voicing an opinion
See you in 2031!
dont get me started with aws.

jesus fucking christ its 2021 its still painful, haha.
Congratulations on the launch! I’m on one of your waitlists. Do you work with any T1 diabetics? My understanding is I wouldn’t qualify for Victoza since I haven’t demonstrated sufficient ineffectiveness of Metformin. Does the weight loss prescription bypass that whole line of questioning?
Thats really cool.

I feel that modern computers are so powerful that they are productivity sappers. For me to be productive, I think a system with low latency but otherwise very limited would be the best.

It's like what a friend said in college about getting a dual monitor setup: "Your productivity doubles until you realize you can watch movies on the other one"
Was talking to a vet, they claimed that most cases of herd's dying "from lightning" were botulism related or other poisonings. The herds graze together, and can die together.
Right, but sender just wanted to send the photo to the kid, and now apple is providing a path for parent to see the picture.

Listen - I don't get the EFF argument any more than you do.