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> I think linear TV will still be going in 10 years time, but probably not 30

I think you're probably right, but I'm one of the few millennials who will miss it when it's gone. I still like being able to turn on the news or some dumb show as background noise, it's an old habit from my boomer parent upbringing. I'm a bit surprised I haven't really met anyone else around my age with a nostalgic attachment to linear TV.

I stream things that I actually want to watch deliberately, but as a replacement for linear TV it's just not the same. It's a lot more effort (paradox of choice, beyond just the UI itself necessitating a lot more "clicks") and there's something nice about knowing that people around the country/world are watching the same thing at the same time as me. I'd like to say it could be a startup opportunity, but I think I might be the only one who cares.

Not to mention, currently an antenna will get you much better picture quality than many/most streaming services (definitely true for the BBC News stream available on iPlayer -- that looks like crap to me).
Any reason for picking GPL.

I was very excited to see this , but with a GPL license I can't use it in my projects .
It’s biased tripe that makes you more stupid. Time to defund it
Nexus3 can be a docker registry. It’s built-in.
> There's no magic number, but CoVID-19 is the most serious public health emergency in probably a century.

Do you know what AIDS is?

Unlike Covid which kills something under 1 in 100 people it infects AIDS until the mid 90s was a death sentence for anyone who got it.

I remember being in an emergency room and the nurse asking for people to give blood because their blood banks were tainted and the doctors could either let patients die from from blood loss or in 10 years from AIDS.

I have no idea why that whole pandemic has been pushed down the memory hole. It's like everyone born after 1985 doesn't even know what it is, let alone what it was like to see people you know just wilt and die.

>Countries that properly managed the pandemic locked down hard for a few weeks, eliminated the virus, and then reopened. They've been back to normal (or something close to it) for most of the time since.

Countries that don't have it keep having to lock down for two weeks every three months. NZ is the most successful and they are currently in their 5th national lockdown.
If I were forced to choose between Netflix and BBC's back catalog and current programming for the same price, I'd say that BBC comes out far ahead.
You are being Fox-news-level combative about your hobbyhorse here. Others have explained why you are way off base.

What would you have us do? Dispense with masks and vaccines and just let the chips fall where they may? That's madness. COVID is a threat. It's best to work to counteract that threat using the best tools we have available, which are pretty simple: masks, distance, and vaccination.

>The fact you cannot give me a set time when it will end, or what status we need to meet for all of the safety measures to end is pretty telling.

It kinda feels like you're demanding to talk to the manager of coronavirus here.
The biggest limitation I'm hitting with Github Actions right now is that there's no real support for queueing jobs up. Github actions do support a 'concurrency group' primitive that will prevent two actions in the same concurrency group from running at the same time, but this only allows you to have one item executing and one item queued up. If you try to queue up another one, the first queued item will be cancelled.

In our case we've got some cypress tests that we want to run on a specific on-premise server every time we create a pull request. They take about 20 minutes to run, and we're creating a lot of pull requests, so you have to carefully check what github actions are executing before you create a pull request or push new changes to it. I'd love support for proper queues like what teamcity and other CI systems have.
What do you think argument is, but dissent? Science doesn't progress if there isn't dissent. If there is no dissent from the status quo, there's no reason to do any research.

Galileo also thought the orbits of the planets were circular, but he was wrong about that. It doesn't matter what he thought or said at the time. Newton's laws of motions worked well... until they didn't and Einstein gave us something better. We also don't think Einstein is 100% correct, either, because relativity breaks down in some important corner cases. But it's the best explanation we have at the time.

Science is fundamentally built upon the principle of falsifiability. Without falsifiability all you have is belief and dogma. It's also why there's a fundamental difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law.

Your "argument" that we should all just shut up and walk the line is, ironically, the true anti-science position.
> Estimating licensing, maintenance costs for running at that scale ...

I am pretty sure AWS for example doed not have major licensing payments for software. Their stack is mix of open source and self-written software and none of them require regular license payments.

So all the software costs that the study talks about would be reversed -- it is hard to compete with $0. And any extra work in system administration will be split over hundreds of thousands of servers.
Can you bitcoin folks keep your twitter squabbles off HN? It's not interesting or relevant.
Of course it’s debatable. What’s not debatable is that the grandparent perceives it as a satisfying, fulfilling life right now.

What constitutes a satisfying life is an incredibly gray area, and for me, as I get older, I keep having to re-calibrate myself and realize life is short, even more so if you don’t know how to use it.
At this point it's a protection racket; agree with them or get brutally cancelled.

Few years ago it was contained to humanities but as of recently, it started spreading in technical fields. See how AI researchers got cancelled [0]

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
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Wow. I had never heard of mcsweeneys.net before the rant from the other day[1] which I ignored as a one off but this site seems to be teeming with people who love vacuous arguments.

Here is this genius[2]:

> Some who become ill with COVID-19 need to be intubated and placed on ventilators. Intubation is a painful, invasive process where a doctor forces a plastic tube down your trachea to keep an airway open.

Unnecessary intubation likely killed a whole bunch of people especially in the Northeastern U.S. last year.

[1]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-th...

[2]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-short-quiz-for-my-stud...
> improve mental health

I think that this is a poor target. How do you set out directly targeting mental health? What are the biggest causes of mental health issues?

https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/index.htm

CDC lists causes such as childhood trauma, trauma from medical issues, biological factors, alcohol or drugs, and loneliness or isolation.

How do you set out to tackle loneliness or isolation? How do you help prevent alcohol or drug addiction? What are the reasons that people become addicted to drugs or alcohol?

> Use and misuse of alcohol, nicotine, and illicit drugs, and misuse of prescription drugs cost Americans more than $700 billion a year in increased health care costs, crime, and lost productivity.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior...

> Some must cope with the early loss of a parent, violence, or sexual abuse. While not everyone who faces these stresses develops a mood disorder — in fact, most do not — stress plays an important role in depression.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/what-causes-dep...

This is a big interconnected problem. My point is that just giving directly to mental health resources rings hollow. A tougher holistic approach needs to examine why American society just plain sucks for so many people. Why do people want to kill themselves or others? Why does life suck so much for so many? We have a rotten system and drug addiction/gun violence/suicide are symptoms and not causes.

My 2 rambling cents.
The political decision to lose national sports coverage from the public domain made both the BBC and the nations sense of identity weaker.
I don't think the SEC would say everything is fine if they changed the plan to have 10% more collateral. So I still don't understand this particular complaint.
Mmm, I'm not so sure. Certainly the things it means about the person responsible for the decision are a little different - lots of people accidentally put policies into place that harm minority groups, etc. But if the outcome is the same and a person in power chooses not to fix it, it really doesn't matter what their intent is, it's a moral failure not to help the people who need your help if you're able to do so. I don't really care whether they say slurs in their spare time with friends, I just want my elected (and un-elected) representatives to do what they can to prevent people from dying of starvation or preventable diseases.
But no, most new hardware needs new drivers instead of trying to be compatible with existing ones, especially with ARM boards while on x86 you at least have a chance to boot an outdated OS…
Death is not the only societal cost, and the study above only looked at first-order numbers of deaths.

Additionally, it's difficult to measure the cost of in-action when responding to an erratic phenomenon like terrorism.
I don't know what your original tutorial said. There's many ways to do this problem.

> maybe you know the word I need to search for, it was something like using every two or three bits and anding or xoring them or whatever to magically erase any bias present in the shot noise, yielding a perfectly uniform distribution of 1s and 0s.

I forgot the name of this technique as well. Its rather simple: take the bitstream and look at it pairwise, you have 4 options:

* 00 -- Throw away

* 11 -- Throw away

* 01 -- output 1

* 10 -- output 0

That's it. This always removes bias and returns a random 0 or 1 bit regardless of how biased the RNG is. 50% of outputs will be 0, and 50% of outputs will be 1.

However, you're being "too smart for your own good" if you go down this route. A perfectly unbiased input would still have 50% of its inputs rejected, and already you've dropped the speed of the RNG by 50%.

IMO: Signal processing is more obviously clean. Ultimately, you need to use analog techniques to finesse the white noise if you wanted to have assurances to the reliability of your RNG. You need to "clean up" the signal if you want the ADC / Input Pins to reliably read the data anyway, so making the analog circuitry a little bit more difficult (and maybe $1 more expensive) isn't a big deal.

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I'd take the white-noise as a voltage-signal, and send it into a bandpass filter or a simple "notch" filter, lets say with 10MHz to 11MHz (named: filterA).

filterA is then averaged across the last 100kHz (aka: 10 microseconds), which is just a simple low-pass filter (named: filterB).

Finally: you compare filterA vs filterB (simple voltage comparator): filterA > filterB == 1, and filterA < filterB == 0.

You'd safely be able to sample the data at 10MHz, or generate one bit every 100 nanoseconds. It'd be as simple as digitalRead(inPin) in Arduino (as long as the comparator outputs the voltage that's compatible with Arduino. You may need a level converter depending on how your comparator works).

Bandpass filters are a complex subject of op-amps in of themselves, but are necessary parts of circuit design. The sooner you (and your students) are familiar with filter designs, the better.

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There might be some slight bias still (ex: if temperature is rising over time, or reducing over time), but I don't think there would be major amounts of bias. So bias-removal is still going to be useful. But don't use the technique described earlier: instead just AES-encrypt the input bits and then xor-it.
I had a non-technical management role and a business need that could only realistically be met with software. I had no budget and company policy prohibited purchasing or commissioning software anyway. So I thought "how hard can this be?", took a laptop home and taught myself to code.

I started in BASIC because that was bundled with the laptop. I quickly became aware of its limitations and moved to C (working in DOS back in 1990).

From there I became the company's go-to person for glueware. We had a dozen silo'd systems that all had some form of file or COM port based I/O, and I was soon proficient at getting them to talk to each other.

Six years after I wrote my first line of code I hung up my management lunchbox and became a fulltime software engineer.
There's a dynamic aspect to this that's difficult to capture in terms of straight up mortality risk.

For starters, we're more interested in the marginal average reduction of mortality per dollar invested rather than point in time risk. Like, the risk of flying on airplanes is fairly low relative to driving. But that's, in part, because we've already invested a huge amount into making air travel safe. It might not make sense to funnel future dollars into making air travel safe as opposed to cars. But if we were to lower that investment going forward, mortality would presumably go up. Because people aren't that irrational: Zooming through the air a mile in the sky, absent safety precautions, really is inherently less safe than driving on the ground.

That's extra true for something like security, where you're dealing with responsive opponents. The odds of a plane blowing up in a terrorist attack are low, but if the bad guys had a 100% successful method for blowing up a plane, they'd probably take it and the odds would go up.

Plus the odds also vary quite a bit based on the denominator too. For instance, the odds of death by flying are lower over the last X years. But if you were looking only at mortality risk from flying on the 737 Max in 2019, maybe that's different.

And then there's the non-mortality cost. Eating healthier food would reduce mortality quite a bit. But people like eating unhealthy things -- at some point, the extra life gained isn't worth it.

None of this is to say that the current degree of security theatre is worth it. Only that relative mortality is probably insufficient a measure.
No we are not machines. You can tell a computer to try and solve a problem for years on end without a problem. Try and get a person to spend their entire lives trying to "improve" the world without any diversions or fun in the slightest and they'll burn out within a week.
I can't believe you are being downvoted on this website of all places. Meaningless jobs are crap, and shouldn't be celebrated at all. I'm sorry but deciding that all work is pointless, just because that's what your work is like, is plain and simple coping.
Ugh, you mean that stretch of the Turnpike on 70 that forces you to pay a toll for travel between Topeka and Kansas City? Not exactly an optional tollroad if you're driving across the country on 70, and you can tell they're not using a lot of the money to maintain the roads...
I like the original programming content the BBC produces. I don't like the BBC, and BBC news in particular, at all.

They propagate bias in insidious ways like 'creative' titling of articles, pushing articles off to side channels, and cutting HoC footage, all the while claiming impartiality. Their quality of their writing on the site has truly tanked in recent years, too.

And that's not to mention the harrassment of people who don't pay their license fee. Complain about Netflix's content all you want, at least they aren't lying about having signal detecting vans and sending threatening letters calling you a criminal. (To the non-Brits, the license fee is optional if you don't watch TV. But even if you tell them you don't have a TV, they'll send you letters every single month threatening you with court[1])

[1] http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
>Spill a bit of detergent outside the detergent box so the initial scrub gets some soap.

Many (most?) dishwashers have a special section for putting soap that gets used in the pre-rinse cycle. In mine it would be functionally identical to spilling some extra detergent, but it's easier to consistently measure the right amount.
>That's because you would never be able to get bullshit through the peer review process in physics,

are you sure about that?[1]. Some journal accepting a bullshit paper proves exactly one thing, that likely one individual or a small group of people had bad judgement. I'm not sure how one publicity stunt is supposed to destroy an entire field of research. That's just your own preconceived bias talking, and it's actually why these hoaxes are just stupid.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/22/nonsense-pap...
I've been suffering from insomnia since last year. To clarify, I'm talking about nights when my mind is either jumping from one place to another, imagining conversations with future doctors (I have an undiagnosed health condition which, after visiting many doctors in my country, a conclusive diagnosis is elusive) or interviews (I've been learning web development since last year but I'm still unemployed).

The combination of turning the lights off in my room, watch something relaxing/calming (that doesn't make me laugh hard or scared) for 1 hour before bed helped me, BUT I also had to use night light for my monitor (flux). I can get at best around 6 hours of sleep and has become my norm as my neighbors can get loud early morning.

Also, I always use relaxing apps to sleep. Rain sounds, white noise, music, I just install and uninstall them 3 times a week trying stuff out.
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Me too, I really wished some nice corporation would give it the adoption boost it needs.
haha, 70 hours. So cute!
"The BBC’s legitimacy is predicated on it being a universal service."

And this is the issue. Once they got super political they ceased being universal :p
Lift it on a boat, connect a tunnel between the hatch and the quarantine area, leave that in place until end of quarantine?
I feel like it shouldn't be surprising that law enforcement and spy agencies would have a different view on privacy vs that of regulatory agencies and customer advocates... Similarly, a public defender and a prosecutor will have very different views on significant issues even if they both happen to get paid via tax dollars.
There are just so many things the BBC in its current form is doing wrong I don't know where to start:

- Paying too much for too little (both quality *and* quantity of "talent")
- Repeats, repeats and more goddam repeats in increasingly short timeframes
- Recent actions such as putting Spitting Image on BritBox (paid commercial service), it should have been on license-paid TV ! I certainly refused to pay for it.
- Taking Political Correctness to extremes. Whether race, gender or disability it has become like *every* BBC programme has to fill a quota. Don't get me wrong, diversity is important, but do you really have to cram every form of diversity into every single programme to the point where it starts feeling forced and artificial ?
- Turning BBC News into a joke (newsreader reads summary, over to "our correspondent" who has been expensively transported to the scene to tell the viewer *the same thing*, then back to the studio for someone else on the BBC's payroll to tell the viewer *the same thing* again).

During the COVID lockdowns, I can probably count on one hand the number of hours of BBC programming I watched. Everything else came from Apple/Amazon/Netflix and perhaps one or two services.

If you want the BBC summarised in a nutshell, just look what happened when DoE died. They cleared their schedules across pretty much all TV and radio channels ... to broadcast the exact same mirrored content ... for god knows how many hours it was (48 ? 72 ?). Completely nuts. I mean one channel fine .... but the entirety of your major broadcast channels?
The part of our response that disappointed me the most was the way people ostracized any other way of thinking during that time period.

Suggestions that we shouldn't overreact because it plays right into their hands and that we shouldn't give up rights to the government out of simple fear that we'd just regret later didn't just go unheeded, they were vehemently attacked. It was worse polarization by far then we're seeing now, and it wasn't a more-or-less 50/50 split and didn't follow party lines.
How dreadful would life be if Auntie went radio only? It’s the only content I really care for. TMS, Radio4 to Radio2 inclusive, and a 198LW service detectable in the deepest of valleys.

The gutting of the R4 schedule with repeats and the downsizing of the radio news team could happily be reversed.

The jewel in the crown is R1Xtra. It’s absolutely at the cutting edge. How?!

Oh, and erm The Last Kingdom, I guess. Thanks Netflix for saving it.
> It's also politics. If you actually wanted to solve the problem

The pairing of politics to problem is a challenge in that solving a problem means shifting focus to a different problem set. A different problem set will likely emerge a different politics which is effectively a threat to the people engaged in the current politics.
> That may be the target, but the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time.
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Don't we all die eventually? What's your point then?

Are you saying that if people get COVID they'll all die of COVID related complications *eventually•? Because that's not necessarily true. If someone is the 101st person who needs a ventilator and all 100 ventilators are being used by COVID patients, then that person likely dies and they could have been recovered.
Honestly, its easier than it seems on the outside. You want to work for something that is doing good, and you want to do do good work that is actually relevant for fear of working on the wrong problem without realizing it until you've sunk so much time. It sounds to me like grad school and academia would be a perfect environment for you then and I recommend you apply if you are interested.

In grad school you will recieve a stipend which will help bills a bit. You will research different departments and see what the field is going and apply where you are interested. You will end up working for a professor trying to achieve one of the aims on their already funded grant from the federal government. The aim might actually be painted in quite broad strokes or have some methods to get you started at least, and you are free to go off the reservation and work on this aim how you think it should be worked on. Your professor, if they are any good, will nurture your efforts and help provide theoretical insights, supply you with relevant literature if you need help with that, and connect you with other researchers that have the talents you need to form beautiful collaborations. You will publish papers and feel good when some of them are cited by other researchers. You could even continue and do a stint as a post doc with another research group and develop more skills, and eventually find yourself interviewing for faculty positions if you want to pen the grant to the federal government yourself, and train another generation as you've been trained.
What I would like to know is whether there is any indication from the DES whether there is, in fact, any Dark Energy activity at all.

Last I heard, DE was discovered to be, probably, a product of a pervasive miscalibration. I have not heard of any retraction or rebuttal. The recognition coincides with evaporation of galactic rotation curves as an indication of Dark Matter, also not, to my knowledge, rebutted. Cosmology is not unique in systematically ignoring evidence against the existence of its favorite phenomena -- Nessie and Bigfoot fans, either -- but its claims are the biggest.