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> No, this isn't the reason. Straight, clear communication of facts from professionals is one of the best ways to combat erroneous viewpoints.

For better and for worse, this is not true with most people. Most people are most open to changing their viewpoints if you engage them in a manner where you try to take their side, first, and then lead them in a new direction.

Straight facts might work best for you, but I'm afraid they're pretty much a sure-fire away to turn off most adults who've already made up their minds and don't already agree with you.
Domestic production of almost everything in the world. This is also immensely valuable to innovation because it's easy to make new things and test new ways of making things.

Do you expect that "designed and engineered in X, made in China" is a sustainable situation when most of those designers and engineers have never set foot in the factory that makes their product, and never will?
thanks freddie! what's the first thing that caught your eye?
This is also a very good example that not all languages with GC are created equal, some do provide the mechanisms to do alternative ways of managing resources.
> tbh I question the value of this in the age of docker

Haha. In the world outside of HN, big companies enforce specific database servers for reasons such as centralized monitoring, security, compliance and competence. Setting all this aside because of "docker" is classic HN.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

The CDC estimates that 36% of Americans have been infected.
Youtube-dl works on Mac, and you can get it working on iOS too. https://www.macstories.net/linked/downloading-youtube-videos...
The big challenge is that black holes are quite small. In order to say that you have "seen a black hole", it is necessary to rule out that you have seen something similar to a black hole but larger than what general-relativity would predict.

The black hole at the center of M87 is large (about the size of our solar-system), but it is 55 million light-years away. If I computed things correctly, it subtends about 70 picoradians on the sky. That is about the same angular size as Alan Shepard's lunar golf ball as seen from Earth.

So yes, if a black hole is at the center of a galaxy, its (non-)image will be in any image of a that galaxy. But, proving that you've seen a black hole means ruling out that it is some other kind of compact object that might be somewhat larger than a black hole. The only imaging-based way to do so is to image its event horizon, which requires resolving the angular size of the black hole itself.
> Business processes are not fundamentally different from any other process.

I think you're correct. There is a lot of what project management people can learn from computer science.
The real problem is that you're almost always shifting work from a language that is well known and understood by you and/or your team to one that is less, or even poorly, understood and known, and you end up incurring the cost of novice programmers, which can be a real problem for both security and performance.

If you have good knowledge and experience in the language your preferred version of SQL implements, that's good. If you just have people that understand how to optimize schemas and queries, you might find that you encounter some of the same problems as if you shelled out to somewhat large and complex bash scripts. The value of doing so over using your core app language is debatable.
I'm pretty sure you don't even need those flags, and it just uses the non-throttled mdoe by default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/492
Nope, stumpwm. Before that I was using i3. Never even bothered with a DE when I jumped ships.
You can't order/sort by parameters.
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peterbonney's right for exactly the reasons that the public trying to reason its way through interpreting studies like this unaided is dangerous to public health.

This is an observational study. It's not possible for it to control for (among other things) the possibility that those who were infected and survived already possessed enhanced natural immunity due to some other cause. All we know is that people who get COVID-19 and don't die from it are less likely to become symptomatic with the delta variant than people who are inoculated, not whether or not they were always less likely to become symptomatic with the delta variant.

People who interpret this study to mean "I don't need the vaccine" are really rolling the dice on the possibility that there's an X-factor here to COVID-19 survival... And they don't have it.
what does it really mean to "orbit the sun?" We follow an elliptical path around the sun from the perspective of the reference frame of the sun. From the perspective of the reference frame of the earth the sun and planets move around us in complicated epicycles. From the perspective of an external reference frame, outside the solar system, the earth moves in a sinusoidal manner as the sun orbits the galaxy. At the largest scale space is expanding and no orbits are cyclical. We never return to the same space twice. Rotation is said to be absolute while linear motion is relative but since space is expanding at the largest space and time scales are not orbits illusory? Due to gravity objects follow curved paths through space and time as the fabric of the Universe expands but if you think about it you never really return to the same place twice so might also at large scales apparent angular motion also be relative or convergent on linear motion, e.g. through fourier decomposition?
The existing funding mechanisms for journalism exacerbate the problem.

The highest-quality generally-accessible journalism is virtually uniformly some form of national or public media, usually broadcast: BBC, DW, CBC, ABC (Australia), Al Jazeera, PBS, NPR. These treat journalism as the public good it is.

For Internet media, I'm increasingly of the view that news costs should be bundled into primary connectivity whether wired or wireless.

The total budget for journalism in the US amounts to less than $200/person. The cost of managing subscription-management systems often greatly exceeds this. (There's no such thing as a free lunch-monetisation system.)

At the 2005 advertising peak, ads income (a cost born by the public through product purchases) was $50 billion. Subscription expense in 2020 was another $11 billion. Pro-rated per person among the 330 million population of the US:

- Advertising: $50 billion -- $150/person ($12.60/person-month)

- Subscription: $11 billion -- $33/person ($2.75/person-month)

- Combined: $61 billion -- $183/person ($15.40/person-month)

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers...

An advertising-free subscription assuming 2.5 persons per household on average would run less than $40/mo. With advertising, the cost would be less than $8/mo. This would fund journalism at the levels of 2005, whilst making the work product available to every household in the US.

My suggestion would be to further index ISP fees to the typical household wealth of an area. Richer locations would pay more, poorer locations would have their news source somewhat subsidised. Businesses could be similarly assessed.

It turns out that either paying directly for news, or indirectly through advertising, creates tremendous distortions.
If Hotswap learns how to migrate from company/technology A for client B, they can save time when helping client C if they also need to migrate data from company/technology A
> The clots are considered extremely rare - there have been 417 reported cases and 72 deaths - after 24.8 million first doses and 23.9 million second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK.

That's 72 deaths among millions. You're trying to describe COVID as "given low risk to an otherwise well person", but you're still off by many orders of magnitude. Using this site[1] we see that he current 0-59 death rate is 0.2%. That would be nearly 100,000 dead to get a comparable rate.
I know that it is frowned on here at HN to ask 'did you read the article' however -

The Mainichi daily said the bus automatically stopped but the operators pressed the start button as they did not think he would walk out on to the road. (fourth paragraph from the end).

Perhaps you missed that part?
If I had $750m (or any more sizable wealth really, even 10m would be enough for where I live), would be to improve wealth inequality from the roots via the boring and slow route. Better education for children (equipment, teachers, etc), regular food on the table (big problem for many people), counselings and medicine for abusive parents.

Second best thing IMO would be to start some business which is sustainable and doing some social good. For example making e-readers and cheap e-books for the aforementioned children such that their parents can actually buy them. Side note: e-readers are discounted even today (selling at loss) and most money comes from e-Book sales.
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When I was working with Azure Queue Service years ago, the way for my service to get delegated read-only access to a queue was:

1. My service's users would have to grant my service permission to read all access keys for the queue

2. My service would look through the access keys and try to find one matching some conditions (specific provided name and read-only)

3. If it couldn't find a limited one (which it would not in pretty much every real case due to the defaults) it would grab any read/write key and use that

(Later, we used Managed Identity when that became available, which avoids the song-and-dance but also has performance issues with very large scale sets. Out of the frying pan...)

I'm wondering if Jupyter had similar ability to read the primary r/w key for every database that had it enabled.
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A large part of why it wasn't economical is that no one was being charged for the economic costs of carbon emissions. If combustion didn't have this massive subsidy, it wouldn't have been the more economical choice for so long.
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That's all fine for locals. How about members of objects? The object may be long-lived, the buffer it uses may be short-lived, and it can hang around unless you remember to null it.

Remembering to null references is not much easier than remembering to delete things. It's trading one issue for another.

And now there's two ways to remember to manage memory.
I haven't met anyone that didn't want Microsoft to have a better default terminal.
I'm not sure there's any need to "innovate" on the UI in this case. It's a stable, mature product refined for >30 years to suit the desktop use case and billions of people are familiar with it and its metaphors. There's plenty of room for innovation on new features, but why mess with what works UI wise? Seems like change for change's sake.
Ah, I get it now. Descartes suggested that the representation of numbers need not be dictated by the geometric interpretation of how they were calculated. For example, a^2 doesn't have to be represented as an area, even though geometrically it would be the area of a square.
The article discusses this exact point:

> The thing that has always bothered me about this, and which continues to bother me, is that I’m only able to live this lifestyle because I have the technical know-how. The average person would neither know how to do any of the things I’m doing (installing a custom Android ROM, setting up Nextcloud, etc.), nor would they probably want to, given that it’s a lot of extra hassle for a sub-par experience.
I'd definitely go the emulation route for these and other reasons for sure, it was just the stated reason to do so wasn't among them.
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However there are unprecedented measures taken today. We're nearly 2 years into lockdowns. Moratoriums on rent, unemployment subsidies, massive increases in gov spending and a host of other unprecedented economic interventions.

These are ineffective because of people's refusal to cooperate. These methods work best if we work together. Because some people chose to ignore measures, it means we're prolonging the misery.

There are debates over why the least vulnerable, healthy populations are subject to the same restrictions as the obese and elderly. If obesity is a risk factor and we have a "collective responsibility", then why hasn't the gov mandated exercise?

Because the least vulnerable and healthy population can spread diseases to the obese and the elderly.

Exercise is a useful health intervention. It's also not very effective for losing weight. It's also the government's fault that we are obese to begin with, because the governments are responsible for urban design, dietary and market regulation.

I'm not convinced a voluntary quarantine of high risk groups would be more harmful medically or economically. The response has caused incalculable economic damage and disruption of individual's lives.

It is unclear to me why only partial quarantine would be useful. It just means that the virus are spreading among the healthy. The moment we stop the quarantine, the moment people starts dying.
> The applications broken in v4 are so niche that most people won't notice.

Except when you’re building these applications. Then it’s infuriating! Maybe more often a feeling of hopelessness than anger.
"An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." – Dan Ingalls, in an article in Byte Magazine, 1981
3D printed rockets, autonomous driving, and now - turning food into squares. Remarkable.
Building more parking doesn't solve the issue of congestion, it just makes it worse.
The plan was to have the same exact OS on desktops and phones. Around the time Windows RT came out (which was a result of their Windows-on-ARM stuff), that's when they finally stopped using WinCE on their phone hardware and moved to the NT kernel.

Of course that's all moot now since they've given up on phones.
Realistically, such a new protocol will only make it worse. No doubt that new problem will lack some features that IPv6 has and that are in active use. So some group will refuse to move to the new protocol.

Some group will not move at all. IPv4 is fine for them.

And the rest of the world will get an endless amount of translation between IPv4 and the new protocol that is a nightmare to debug.

There is also the big question whether there actually exists a better transition path. I have not seen any ideas that are likely to be accepted on a large scale by the networking community.
No. Windows 10 was windows 1.0.(same UI plus taskbar).
Win 11 will be win 1.1.
Not link local addresses - there’s a whole space for ‘Unique Local Addresses’ [1]. It’s basically analogous to the private IPv4 space (apart from the fact that you need a separate globally routable address to access the internet from, but that’s not hard).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
They did it before, and then unified it. The Win95 line had a distinct core compared to the NT line. It was unified under XP. XP had multiple editions (home, professional, a couple others). I no longer recall the major differences, but I think the big one was that professional supported corporate provisioning while Home did not (which meant if you were a nerd like me and had a home LDAP server Home couldn't use the login information from it, IIRC).

However, I don't recall the user interfaces being fundamentally different between those versions. And that's what they'd need now if they wanted a smartphonified desktop OS for the "average home user" (whatever that means) and the now over 25-year old interface for professionals.
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This is highly misleading as you are ignoring the number of deaths compared to the population.

The Antonine plague killed 2,6% of the world population.
Covid, so far? 0.04%.
It is not even close to beat the Antonine plague.

Just for perspective: The upper estimate for covid deaths in 2020 was 3M.
The average estimate for yearly tobacco deaths is around 7.5 M. Every FUCKING YEAR, almost 3 covid pandemics caused by cigarretes.

Not to mention that the averaged covid death age is very close to the average life expectation, that is, a majority of people who died of it would probably die in one year or two.

Does it means is not a serious disease? No. it doesn't.
Does it means it is a hoax? hell, no!

But does it means that there's an unwarranted level of panic? You sure bet.
Well let's not saddle up the high horse so quickly. The same sort of issues apply to the US where collectivism/socialism is certainly not the norm. There the individual is powerless in the face of corporations and they are similarly exploited, except now instead of the ruling party doing the exploitation it's the ultra rich who take advantage of the individual.
What are you doing to handle more complicated WHERE clauses, such as WHERE last_name = 'Doe' AND (first_name = 'Jane' OR first_name = 'John')?
You are right, but are you suggesting this should be censored? This is important information that is very relevant to a sizable population.
It’s amusing that earlier this week HN was arguing that devs don’t get payed for the impact/value they generate (justifying low pentest bounties). And now the argument is the opposite for C-suite.

IIRC many academics have studied ceo comp and found it outsized any evidence based justification of influence (such as compared to if a lower payed ceo was at reigns).
But even in the image they generated, it is just the matter surrounding the black hole we see, right?
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No one in this forum says otherwise.

But you miss human emotions 101: If someone tells you they are worried about something, you don’t throw facts at them as the first thing. You ask them to tell more about their emotions, hear them and make them feel heard. They might as well be missing factual data (as the case with vaccine hesitating folks) but their emotions are real, and unless they are treated as a person they’d be close to influence because they are in a skeptic, anxious state to begin with.

Often people barge in like performing an exorcism expecting the power of data compelling the “possessed” demonized other to the “light”. Such vilification is a self-fulfilling process.
I won't switch from Mac OS to Linux because of Logic Pro. Are there DAWs available for Linux? Yes, and I don't like them. Are there DAWs I'd be willing to use other than Logic Pro? Absolutely! But that doesn't help my situation:

1.) They only run on Windows or Mac OS

2.) They're considerably more expensive

Having said that, there are some people who really like Reaper. I keep trying it and I keep going back to Logic Pro - and that's what keeps me on Mac OS.

Bottom line? It's the application software that will determine which OS you run.
Love the Turners Cube, can that be done with wood?
> RNA injections are, apparently, only good for 90 days

Er, what?
Same is true for any consultancy company, of course.
Most people who are against the vaccine are making emotional decisions, not logical decisions. You literally can't change their minds by arguing specific points. If you really want to get into it, you need to find out what is driving the emotions that make them land on this decision.

I have chosen to skip all that. Vaccinated family may come visit us, non-vaccinated cannot. I don't like the situation, but I'm just going to set my own boundaries vs. starting family fights.
> The Qatari Foreign Ministry, which did help rescue the girls, additionally accused Reneau of playing “white savior” in the girls rescue.

Shows how savvy Qatar’s propaganda operation is. They deftly use intersectionality to invert the real power relationship in the discussion. Ordinarily, a fabulously wealthy principality attacking a random woman in Oklahoma would come across as bullying.

The real story seems to be that Reneau helped by making the girl’s plight go viral and working a personal connection at the US embassy in Qatar: https://www.wsj.com/articles/oklahoma-woman-to-the-kabul-res... (“Mrs. Reneau had met the girls, ages 16 to 18, at a 2019 Humans to Mars summit in Washington while they were on a visit for a robotics competition in the U.S… In Qatar a former roommate of hers now working at the U.S. Embassy stayed up all night to process the paperwork needed to get the girls out. The government of Qatar sent a plane and flew the girls out.”).

The Qatari government obviously did the hard work of sending the plane to get the girls. But a sovereign state complaining that some well-meaning lady is taking too much credit for her role in the rescue is extremely petty.
Fairly unrelated but I've always gotten a kick out of the NSFW issues that users report on youtube-dl's page.
“Controversial” gives this situation a lot more credibility than it deserves
If only we could attach names to IP addresses somehow!