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> There is a lot of figures in our culture today who basically advocate this. People who declare themselves to be atheists but tell disoriented youth to just 'pretend to believe'. And it really has the quality of LARPing. It will not move anyone forward philosophically.

I think you can come up with your own (stretched) interpretation of Christianity that doesn't require belief in the divine, and I think that approach, taking an existing societal value system that works pretty well, makes a lot more sense than trying to build a new one from scratch and getting everyone to buy into it.

Personally speaking, I used to be somewhat of a militant atheist.
I was really engaged with the whole new athiest movement of 00's.

But I've distanced myself from that, I certainly don't try anymore to persuade people away from their belief.
I don't describe myself as a Christian, although I do think that western society is built upon it's values.

Maybe that's LARPing, inauthentic, not philosophically rigorous, but it's good enough for me.
Maybe it is working, but being coerced to take a novel gene therapy from organizations with a long history of abuse is a horrific precedent that should offend everyone.
Different article, same subject, no paywall: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/biontech-reports-prom...
Intranet apps are the ideal case for web technologies, because all their disadvantages either don’t apply or can be mitigated or ignored :-)
When I was faced with the same choice, I just had thought that I just need to try to compare. There are plenty of big companies with great salaries, so I could always come back.
Eight European startups tapped by YC to become the next big thing in fintech
Sadly it is the kind of stuff that keeps being ignored by WG14.
I hope the researchers behind this are proud.

And I hope the marketers pretending they'll have a commercial plant by 2025 are ashamed.
Nothing really, but I imagine a COBOL compiler (and possibly a runtime/execution environment) that still gets updated doesn't come cheap anymore.
If I were writing a new banking host today I'd write it in Java or C# and be hopeful that the tech will have a longer shelf life than COBOL.
I'm curious if they can push the magnetic field even higher in the near future. For smaller magnets in NMR spectrometers 20 Tesla has been commercially available for 20 years. Of course this is more difficult for larger magnets.

The new superconductors that allow these larger magnets are also very recent, not in discovery but in actual mass production. So they don't have as much experience with using these as with the classical superconductors. So I hope there is still quite some quick improvement there on the table.
Ah, Beats, the black sheep in the Apple world.
The issue isn't whether RDRAND is backdoored; it's that the output from the RDRAND circuitry is fed directly to an AES whitener, and the only thing you can test about the RDRAND output is the whitened output from AES.

Well, the output from AES is by definition indistinguishable from randomness, unless you have the key. So to test a TRNG, you need access to the input to the whitener. Intel doeesn't provide that access. So the hardware might be producing a continuous stream of zeroes, and you'd never know from examining the output of the whitener.

I believe Intel chips with RDRAND have been inspected using electron microscopes, and no flaw has been found in the hardware (I think it's two free-running oscillators whose outputs are sampled and XORed).
I'm not disagreeing with a lot of your premise, but you said "I have nothing to lose". If/when you go on a cold streak it can be hard to maintain that attitude, and downright depressing. It's not rational, but it happens. The psychological toll can be very real, and going on tilt in real life can have major consequences.

Besides that, are you correct, or is it just survivor's bias? After all, literally everything you said could be replaced by the time I won $20,000, then $500,000, then $30,000 then $50,000 in the lottery. Someone is going to get things right.

And separately, in response to [1], it depends a lot on what programming you do. I consider professional poker players to be a lot more honorable and a better service to society than programmers active in the ad-tech or surveillance space. Or a lot in the financial market space.
Looks like the video on your site is not working. At least from my region.
I learned to program in hypertalk as a kid, and I am so glad that it never took off.
The post is about a constant magnetic field, not a changing one. So, no, stuff about 5G is quite irrelevant.
Huh, TIL it's only available in US, UK and China. I wonder what's the barrier elsewhere.
You’re conflating consumer and corporate purchasing. By and far, companies prefer subscription based pricing that comes with ongoing support. Consumers also want support and updates, but have an irrational desire to not pay the company/people that provide it…
Related, on HN recently: How Doctors Die.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463482
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26685244
I assume it's an issue for anyone that started using computers in banking in the 1960s or 1970s (not sure when that happened around the world but it seems to be the case for Australia, USA etc).
Linked Lists with Sequence and IteratorProtocol in Swift
key points:

* mRNA vaccines aren't a silver bullet for cancer, but may help when paired with other therapeutic modalities.

* cancer and covid are different. covid is far simpler because vaccines can target a single antigen, the spike protein.

* by contrast, many tumors mutate and over time evade single-antigen vaccines. moreover, different tumors may exhibit different antigens so what works for one cancer type may not translate to another. lastly, vaccines require cooperation from the immune system. even if researchers identify a promising antigen, there's no guarantee the immune system will recognize this antigen and act against the tumor.

* in summary, one of the hardest questions when developing cancer vaccines is defining which antigens to target.

terms (from wikipedia):

* antigen: a molecule or molecular structure, that may be present on the outside of a pathogen, that can be bound by an antigen-specific antibody or B-cell antigen receptor. The presence of antigens in the body normally triggers an immune response.
yes, but more than 20 (if you slice it that way)
Ok, good points
I stand corrected, thank you. From a sibling comment, which stated that cordite (a low explosive) was an end product, I wrongly concluded that all end products were low explosives.
Just use "offline" tools like httpie. Pretty good interface. My experience suggests that a relatively small number of engineers need to work with more than 5-10 requests at a time. So you can just store commands in some text file or just using shell history search.
Yes that part is surprising. I wonder if it had to do with manufacturing limitations at the time? Even still, some off the vehicle tests probably could have saved them some pain.
> individuals who are at-risk for COVID-19 (a small minority of the population)

What do you mean by this? You’re saying COVID affects only a minority? Are you also forgetting that this pandemic is raging despite so many people WFH? Imagine post-WFH when the economy reopens and life is more “normal”.

> I'm having trouble finding a single instance of viral vaccine that requires regular boosters

Have you heard of the flu shot?
I assume you are referring to mRNA vaccines here. These are not in any way "gene therapy." Please quit spouting misinformation.

For reference:

> Gene therapy is a medical field which focuses on the genetic modification of cells to produce a therapeutic effect[1] or the treatment of disease by repairing or reconstructing defective genetic material.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy

mRNA vaccines do not modify cells, repair, or reconstruct anything.
There are two problems with this reasoning. First, you are comparing the cost of written-off plants, for a technology that has huge upfront costs and much lower fuel costs.

Fission is not cheap if you build a new nuclear plant, not in the Western world. That's why almost no nuclear plants are being build. Making a safe plant is just really, really complicated.

Second, this specific argument can be used to see why fusion is a pipe dream. The primary competitor to fusion is fission. And the fuel costs of fission are pretty low, as you just said. So fusion will not be competitive unless you can built them around the same price as fission plants.

Someone else in this thread talked about S curves. Well, those kind of S curves happen for tech that gets produced in larger quantities, where it is economical to spend engineering resources making the production of the tech cheaper.
Again this assumes fusion power will be cheap. But in reality it may cost about as much as (fission) nuclear power. So yes it may help with making energy production carbon-free (together with solar, wind, hydro), but it won't necessarily create a some sort of energy abundance.
I hope this will allow us to contribute toward fixing some of the longstanding issues. One that I'm still surprised hasn't been addressed is the way that it grants irrevocable admin permissions for the IAM security principal that created the cluster. And it does it invisibily–there's no way to see what IAM role or user has system:masters since the permission doesn't appear in the configmap or any other user-visible configuration. Last I checked you can't even see it in the dashboard and have to make note of it yourself for future reference.
Less AI and more people. I hope this succeeds.
> IAP's basically are micro transactions though

That’s exactly why I used it as a good example. And I didn’t mean that NYT has to use IAPs, they could easily integrate Apple/Google Pay for frictionless micro-payments if they wanted to. It’s just that consumers wouldn’t use it.
Yep, and, thanks to that little fiasco, we lost significant ground in trying to eradicate polio worldwide.
> Do you understand what masculinity is?

This is the best question. Masculinity is just an archetype. It could have been three dudes standing around, "Hey you know, we are all strong, smart, and like to protect our families. I bet it's because we have these third legs, pretty sure that's it." And then we pass it down generations. Tell women the same BS about femininity. Letting just a few folks define what a gender represents, as if one side or the other does not share those traits. Just being human isn't as fun, I guess? Or maybe just the complexity of being undefined is too much for some folks, to know they could be contradictory, complex or different. Either way, masculinity itself is just kind of like a cult-y marketing tool. It's used to either make you feel bad or great, maybe apart of something, (that always ends well), but the people selling it, want it to define you. And if you buy into it, think there is something special about you because you pee standing up, and that makes you superior, that's toxic AF.

And yes I am straight, white, and male, with a nice haircut and could tell you the 7 day forecast everyday of the year. Would love to hear your definition on masculinity and why you treasure it's meaning so much.
AIUI those numbers were completely fabricated by pro-abortion campaigners, and are orders of magnitude higher than the real statistics.
Huh, thanks to my completely destroyed sleep schedule, i get to continuously watch infomercials about class-action lawsuits related to paraquat. No idea it was used in this context though.

When I googled the chemical it was just the typical whining about how its the only thing that works and is completely safe.
Individualism is a closed system. Any attempt to find meaning in isolation as a lone consciousness is subject to the same kind of force as the entropy of closed physical systems. It becomes almost impossible to pattern match on significance because the dataset is too small and the variance in factors that might influence our thinking is too great. All Nihilists are focused only on their own existence because they fail to see reality as having meaning beyond the meaning they can individually make sense of.

I think we can only ever really understand ourselves as humans in relation to other humans. Our individual ideas about who we are can only form in context of our ideas about who other people are and in relationship with them. This is an open system where meaning is an emergent property. Life create meaning, order and structure in the context of complex systems. This is a force as powerful and pervasive as entropy but much less understood.

Meaning exists outside of ourselves.
Financial help is not all it takes to stop abortions.

There are welfare states such as scandinavian ones where the financial help for having children and/or being a single mother is very generous.

A single mother with 6 children can receive financial aid to the equivalent of a senior software engineer salary without having to work at all. Source: https://www.expressen.se/gt/gt-granskar/shukri-hade-fatt-lik...

Even with these levels of financial support, abortions are common - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Sweden#Trends
Family also pressure to give birth even in cases where the potential child leads a terrible life and it's abused too.
I don't think I'm exaggerating at all. Canada routinely bars entry to convicted felons from the US. Manning is famously a felon. This is what irritates me about this story; the people making the most noise about it don't care at all about the ordinary ex-convicts that Canada bars, just this celebrity.
Hmm, yeah sorry about the FireFox thing and thanks for reporting. I just checked it now and it seems like the code editor div isn't respecting the height 100% style so it's shrunk to being a few pxs heigh. I'll fix today.

Thanks for giving it another shot in Chrome.
Can anyone tell me, what have the vaccines done for us already? Because they don't seem to work, so I hope in the search of healing cancer (a metabolic disease) they opt for something different. It seems like a waist of time and money, at least mine.
Touche! I heard you on Corecursive, which is where I got that from.

Keep up the good work, I'm excited to see where Zig goes next.
Number 1 benefit of EKS to me is Fargate pods, which don't look to be available in EKS-A.
The Twin Towers Design and Architecture
Microsoft has destroyed the Windows desktop singlehandedly on their own. Since Win8 and “Metro” they moved away from having consistent UI widgets like it was in Windows 2000 or XP but instead made the Windows desktop a Wild West if different UI paradigms. Even the ribbon introduced a new UI paradigm that wasn’t available to third party devs.

If even MS themselves doesn’t bother to be consistent then developers certainly won’t.

I am a long time Windows desktop dev but all my new projects are either web or Electron. I am done with the mess in Windows.
I did this on a recent project, and it worked really well.

I had each function definition in its own .sql file, with a preceding "drop function" call, and a Makefile clause to run them all. Which meant managing versions was easy (coupled with migration .sql files). I also got to find out if any of my SQL was broken right up front, and testing the SQL was simple - call the function and check the return.

I also defined views for return types, so mapping the return values to the structs in the Go code was easy (yes it's boilerplate, but it really is not as painful as the author makes out). Query functions always returned the relevant view type (or a set of them).

The author's approach seems to go to great lengths to avoid a relatively small amount of boilerplate.
Sorry, I see now that what I intended as a generalized “you” really made that seem like I was attacking you. Apologies! I just wanted to highlight to anyone reading how awful solitary is as a practice by relating it to a recent shared experience.
It feels like some point within the last few years tech became a place where you are identified by the tools you choose (ok, vim and emacs have been around). Not just that, but you sell your project based on those tools. So you can have that revolt app that showed up yesterday that for some ungodly reason disabled text selection on their website (user hostile as fuck) but it was getting advertised because it was Rust. The top selling point was theming via Electron. They have to sell the project before it's actually ready.

Blog posts like this are very thinly disguised advertisements for people like this guy who tweet all day about what tools they use. Which, he's successful, and more people are aware about this stuff than before. It used to be bad form to quote yourself, but tweet yourself? That's content.

I blame a big part of it on YC and the VC ethos of big big big instead of better better better.
Moderna and the FDA think it's a gene therapy. "Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA." [1]

>Please quit spouting misinformation.

I like how you start with the word "please" so you can pretend you're being polite.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000168285220...
Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die.
https://youtu.be/Lb-EJEWRxlM
> replace a torn earcup fabric

I'm generally happy with Apple products, but Beats products specifically have very poor build quality, and from talking to genius bar employees when mine were broken, "repairing" broken headband/earcup/etc. = giving you a new one. I don't touch anything Beats now.
Complete tripe. The article doesn't even work up the guts to make the claim that's made in the headline. And even in what it actually says, it goes too far by claiming the government was trying to "purposely" harm the lungs of pot smokers. The only argument supported by the evidence is that the government was trying to kill weed crops as an early drug war tactic, which backfired because it wasn't killing enough of the crops but rather contaminating them with toxins.

The rabid desire to spin "uS GoVeRnMenT iS EvIl@!" narratives everywhere there's a shadow on the wall is just so old hat.
There needs to be clarity on what qualifies as a success and a failure.

If they quit in two days, do I lose my money? As I know a great candidate who has done that because he was mislead (literal Java developer hired to do JavaScript kind of thing).

How about if they are just let go in a downsizing and not really fired for performance?

But otherwise this is a great idea.
I find this pretty funny.

In the 00s and early 10s, the Linux desktop was criticized because of the inconsistency in the look and feel, e.g. using Firefox (GTK) in KDE (Qt) plus random apps in Motif, TK, or straight up Swing. The consistency of Windows and OS X desktops was desired and looked for: people migrated themes across toolkits, synchronized font settings, etc.

Now every Electron app does their own thing and people don't seem to care one bit, but when I need to use one of them I feel like I'm using a different CSS-enhanced, antialias-enabled 90s Winamp skin for each app.
> my car is insured to 20M in damages p.p.

How much does that policy cost?

Are you hedging against running into a gas pipeline, school bus full of children, or something along those lines?

I'm honestly really curious about this.
Yup, plain old heating water to make steam to turn a turbine.
This is why the US makes you sign forms promising you are and were not a Nazi in Germany during the 30s/40s and were never affiliated with various terrorist groups as as part of the customs paperwork. It's unclear what US laws could apply to all those members, but lying on that form is a clear and serious felony.
I got a REAL ID several months ago and definitely didn't get fingerprinted in the process.
Given the usual turnout, there's a pretty good chance...
Exactly! The word "Nihilism" has so many aspects to its meaning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism) that the author's choice of one, just smacks of intellectual laziness. He/She has a preconceived notion against which they trot out the same old untenable arguments (for deriving "Meaning") which have been effectively demolished with the rise of the "Scientific Age".
omg that looks horrible! don't do that! xD
The article suggests that they're already providing the inputs, "a list of the variables used to calculate the index and a rough estimate of each variable’s impact on the score".
That study refers to GSM phones, though, which use a much lower frequency that's a lot better at penetrating things like walls and people's skulls.
For terrestrial operations, sure. But we need to either overcome shielding hurdles with fission or have relatively portable fusion if we're really going to explore our solar system or the stars.

Renewables are key to having a sustainable energy economy. Fusion power is what will let us do the drastic things to recover from climate disaster that is already here.
Well if what you're saying is true, home insurance is definitely cheaper in the UK.

Here it's split into home insurance and contents insurance, if you rent you only require contents insurance but if you own a house you generally get both combined.

For my house (home and contents), I pay about £250 which is quite a bit higher than usual because this area had a history of flooding (before they put flood defenses) and I insure some high value items extra which increases cost.

My excess (I guess you call it a deductable) is £250.
If you have a cheap means to an end or an expensive one, and you have limited funding because of politics, you will want to pour all your money into scaling the cheap means - then you'll get there much, much faster.

I live close to a wind turbine factory. They could easily have scaled production multiple times over the past five years. The only reason they didn't is funding, in fact during that period they at some point cut production when subsidies were cut.

I think it's getting to a point now where subsidies are not needed. But still, if you're talking about speeding up the process, you can just provide a little extra funding and get big results.
An extremely glorious failure.
Perhaps we could devise some kind of medical implant to do it. Although no doubt somebody here would offer it as a SaaS that triggered when you failed to renew your subscription.
VC investors don't give you that money to sit on it. They want you to scale, and quickly.
While I tend to agree that Electron is going to be more and more relevant, I'd like to counter-argument that native apps these days are accompanied by powerful vendor services. For example, if you target the Apple ecosystem you get CloudKit and can deploy syncing between devices very easily and translating operational infrastructure costs to the user. Need crypto? You have CryptoKit, and so on.

What this means: any app will try to expand to become multiplatform and multidevice but if that's the business case you are bound to be challenged by niche players that can execute better and with less cost for a single platform. I think both models can coexist, but niche players will always be niche players.
Good on you, man! I'm finding it hard to learn the language. This one has to be a great learning experience, if not widely adopted.
Most commonly accepted morals come down to one thing: they contribute to the survival of that moral.

Societies with a moral against killing thrive and spread compared to those without.
Thanks that was a really really interesting read. Probably deserve its own HN submission.
I’d love to hear how you handle code coverage, dynamic queries (custom filters in reports, etc.), live schema migrations (we aren’t brave and don’t do that at all - and don’t use functions either).

I’m coming from a sqlalchemy background if that helps to set the context.