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> What about the other side of the cutlery? Was only one side dirty?

I read this as the handle should be at the top and the points ("face"?) should be at the bottom (assuming vertical cutlery bins). I know some people who swear the handles should be on the bottom and the points should be on top.
So what is your solution to prevent law enforcement becoming influenced to do things other than realistic law enforcement for the betterment of society in a designated violence monopoly?
To be fair, alot of political philosophy had no real framework to deal with a pandemic.

Liberal globalism advocated for keeping borders open no matter the cost and against any restrictions of social life at the beginning.
The progressive Left miss-identified quarantine for all entering the country as political scare-mongering against foreigners.
The right is still embarrassing itself on a daily basis, regarding the pandemic. Most of the elderly politicians in all sorts of countries, seem to be entirely unable to adapt to new situations, outside of their life-experienced frame of reference. All they have is the fixated-idea to tunnel through "back to normal times".

The International Institutions were revealed to be underfunded, thus easily subverted and mostly interested in turning the first world into a fortress as protective measures instead of helping.

Government policies for all types & forms of government meandered and flailed.
It seems after several generations since the last pandemic, the experience and institutional knowledge had been wiped out to deal with it. I have no solution for this, but it seems that while theoretical knowledge remains, a correct response can not be inoculated with just that.

I honestly doubt that even with the Obama Playbook around and in use, the outcome would have been much different.
The measures would have been taken half-assed and the actions crippled by cost- and corner-cutting.

Those with the most pandemic experience fared pretty well at the start (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore mostly due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbrea... ) - but even within these societies the nature of the beast was largely ignored by sub-cultures (religious or otherwise).

It seems that some things, we can only learn and remember, by suffering through it. I hope, that this does not also is the case for imperialistic induced world wars.
The sharks helped write the rules, they certainly ain't in violation.

This is normal and good, actually. Yeah, good I say.

Sigh
It's really about class, not about race. Unfortunately, that son of a coal miner can get a haircut and a nice suit and pass for a member of the upper class. A person with brown skin, not so much.
As someone else wrote in this thread, there's absolutely no way to know how many were saved from potential harm, so that's a useless contradistinction.
My understanding is that Sweden didn't go into lockdown, and has largely done OK.
Yeah, any positive news on fusion progress and there always seems to be the same set of comments appear that are overwhelmingly critical of fusion development.
Fusion is not well funded and imo has been let down by mismanagement of ITER, and despite this keeps making progress.

I feel that fusion is one of humanity's best shots at actively reversing climate change, and it is disheartening to see such widespread pessimism about it.
Yeah it's hard. There are huge hurdles in making it economicly viable, but if we can go from first powered flight to the moon in 70 years, and put billions of transistors on a chip in 50, then maybe we can get fusion going. It's clearly possible.
>there is a company where anyone working more than 20 hours a week got reduced pay for those extra hours.

what company and in what country? that's a compelling idea, provided the pay is decent enough that one would only need to work 20hrs a week.
I had mentioned it previously on HN. If money doesn't buy you happiness, you're probably spending it in suboptimal places.
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Yeah, I've been eyeing the EPYC servers, but RAM pricing seems to very roughly be in the ballpark of $1,000 for 128GB, so $4k for 4T sounded very attractive and I wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing anything. As
cvwright pointed out, you can get old DDR3 RAM for less, but I haven't found servers that can fit that many DIMMs. Thanks for your response.
I agree with you, but we need to reevaluate our values when it comes to public funds.

When Florida paid Emeril Lagasse to produce a show that's purpose was partly to promote Florida tourism, people freaked out and it ruined his career.
Plausible if I had ever berated a cop before. In fact, I didn't berate this one on this stop.
Stop resisting! That's it, we're taking you in for public obtuseness and resisting arrest. Yeah, yeah, you can make a phone call at the station, stop resisting.
Your complaint seems addressed to the OP, perhaps you should post it at that level rather than a reply to my particular comment. My (original) comment here being simply that adding a question concerning social media would be practical for police officer making a traffic stop.
Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?
Among the mega high-traffic websites reddit seems to be the slowest and most unreliable. Many times it simply won't load, or log you out for no reason. Why do you think reddit never manages to improve its infrastructure?
There is another saying, "it is not vote that counts, but who counts the votes."

We need to push for transparency in all aspects of elections, if someone says fraud, we need to be able to have evidence that no fraud occurred that is indisputable. Anyone should be able to examine the proof.

The hard part is to provide anonymity and transparency.

The harder part is getting people to agree to making transparency and accountability part of the process without one side or another providing a back door to the process.
The strawman was > You can't just magically say, "I'm a not a thing at all, you can't regulate me!"

Sounds like "free of all regulation" to me.

Maybe you didn't mean "all regulation", but then in addition to confusingly saying it wasn't a strawman you really flubbed the wording on "the claim that someone can merely opt out of regulation" by not making that distinction clear.
Is it possible yet to (without hoops) have an action workflow that runs on pull requests to <default_branch> without having to name that branch explicitly so that you can have a write-once-run-everywhere-forever process across repos that might change their default branch name? Last I saw there was a template parameter, but those get populated at creation not at runtime.
Not at all. A single line will use a tiny subset of language features. It will show you nothing about the overall complexity of the language, just about those things it happens to use.
> and it remains the most trusted source of news in the UK - give the news division a requirement to be profitable and the sensationalism that follows would destroy that trust pretty quickly.

It's kinda interesting that the journalist supposed to criticize the government are... on the government's payroll. There's a massive conflict of interests right there.

> The last thing we need is a news landscape even more similar to the US.

You mean several different organizations with different viewpoints and financial support from backers with known agendas?
The alternative explanation does not change P(severe infection|vaccinated), so doesn't change the nature of the choice to get vaccinated. But it would imply, if proven, that the claim that vaccines reduce severity is false.

If the alternative explanation is proven, it implies that people who are vaccinated and develop an infection should react to that news the same as an unvaccinated person. In other words, even if the alternative explanation doesn't influence the choice to get vaccinated, if it is true and we are saying it's false it would mean vaccinated people are more likely to die once infected because they've been led to believe it is not as serious a concern to be infected and will be less likely to, for example, notify their doctor as promptly or go to the ER given they have been informed their risk of severe infection is low.
I pre-clean too. But, the thing that really kills the bacteria is not the hot water (it's not hot enough), it's the bleach in the dishwasher detergent (bleach is a chemical sterilizer).
How does this compare to multipass? I tried multipass out on an Intel Mac yesterday and it worked great until I connected to corporate vpn (anyconnect) and then it all went downhill. Tried some of the workarounds (https://multipass.run/docs/troubleshooting-networking-on-mac...) but no luck. Back to Docker Desktop.
Yeah agreed. $200k a year is more than enough to live on. Heck, I'm saving 80% of my pay cheque -- specifically to save enough to offset this crazy property price capital growth.

But a simple example that shows how lucky I and others are: I can rapidly, from $0 (if I was silly enough to have no savings for this exercise) save up a deposit within a year or two, less if one has a partner.

Any of my friends and acquaintances, unless they also went into high-paying jobs and industries here in SEQ, or unless they have parents well-off enough to help them, are writing off being able to enter the property market for years or decades.

Its worrying, for sure.
Is this true even if you're speaking English in France? I would assume in English, it always means 10^9.
> A perfectly random source could generate a string of 1M zeros,

I you sample the thermal noise of the transistor used in your RNG too quickly you can get 1M zeroes. :)
As a guy who's been running stuff with docker-compose and is learning k8s, the learning curve for k8s is a cliff. Every single layer of the stack gets added complexity.
There are equivalent groups for doctors and teachers, I don't follow your meaning.

Like what is it that FOP¹ does that you think they should be prevented from doing? Should they not be allowed to exist?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_Order_of_Police

Please note that I don't give money to these organizations, I'm pointing out what a big chunk of donating money to the police consists of.
"The way to stop discrimination based on race is to stop discriminating based on race."

I heard someone else phrase it that the current "anti-racist" movement isn't trying to eliminate the jack-boots, they're trying them on for size, instead.
So, I don't use either of these things, but still tend to read the arguments between people who do, and that isn't what it feels like to me (as again, someone who doesn't use either of these things).

Specifically, it feels like you are missing that the people who argue against k8s are saying that it is extremely difficult to configure, and so instead of this clean "some people don't understand that it is nice to have a system that just works", it feels like the argument is actually about a tradeoff between what you think is easier to put together: a single system with a million options that seem to all need to be configured or it doesn't work or a handful of systems that are each easy to understand in separate, but where you will need to do all the glue manually.
It’s not happening, and there’s zero reason China is willing to give in, but sort of remains as an ambition. Yeah pipe dream is probably spot on.

I think it has more to do with external independence/isolationism, than about environments theme, carrying over from the century before. I don’t understand why the government just go double down on nuclear fuel cycle concept but maybe there are too much political complications in it.
I agree with all of that, but I think you’re making the case that leftists are in fact averse to debate. If an outsider can’t interact with a couple people on social media without having already read all the important literature and knowing the “established” answers to pesky questions like “why do attempts at establishing communism so often result in authoritarian conditions,” then the community is not open to being prodded. Many of these communities are intentionally insular. Why would they be open to people questioning their philosophy when most of society does that already?
It's now only twenty years away!
I still don't understand how most people on HN don't realize TikTok is a tool of the CCP to manipulate the West.
This statement seems correct but I have no data to back it up. Do you?
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It's the biggest victory of the elite in the last decade(s). They turned a socio-economical class problem (poor workers vs rich) that infects the current state of capitalism into a race warfare. Turn people against each other so we can live free. Google and the other mega tech companies just keep doing that so they can get away with whatever they want and no one turns against them.
I'm still waiting for a compile-to-sql language in the vein of coffeescript or typescript. It seems like there is so much that could be improved with some very simple syntax sugar: variables, expression fragments and even real basics like trailing commas.
Plenty of skepticism in these comments. I've been following CFS for a while and can present a point of view for why this time might be different.

Fusion energy was actually making rapid progress in the latter half of the twentieth century, going from almost no power output in the fifties and sixties to a power output equal to 67% of input power with the JET reactor in 1997. By the eighties there was plenty of experimental evidence to describe the relationships between tokamak parameters and power output. Particularly that the gain is proportional to the radius to the power of 1.3 and the magnetic field cubed. The main caveat to this relationship was that we only had magnets that would go up to 5.5 Tesla, which implied we needed a tokamak radius of 6 meters or so in order to produce net energy.

Well that 6 meter tokamak was designed in the eighties and is currently under construction. ITER, being so large, costs tens of billions of dollars and requires international collaboration; the size of the project has led to huge budget overruns and long delays. Recently however, there have been significant advances in high-temperature super conductors that can produce magnetic fields large enough that we (theoretically) only need a tokamak with a major radius of about 1.5 meters to produce net gain. This is where SPARC (the tokamak being built by the company in the article) comes in. The general idea is that since we have stronger magnets now, we can make a smaller, and therefore cheaper tokamak quickly.

Small tokamaks do have downsides, namely that the heat flux through the walls of the device is so large that it will damage the tokamak. There have been breakthroughs with various divertor designs that can mitigate this, but to the best of my knowledge I'm not sure that CFS has specified their divertor configuration.

This was just a short summary of the presentation by Dennis Whyte given here [0]. I do not work in the fusion community.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
No it suggests P(severe|vaccinated) is much lower than P(severe|unvaccinated) which isn't the same thing as saying the vaccines reduce P(severe|infected). It's funny I've been downvoted tho because it shows how tribalist people are about vaccines that they can't even understand an argument that has no influence on ex-ante vaccine risk assessment.
It's hard to sell "massive animal species" when you put a person silhouette and realize it was the size of a corgi.
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What is a good alternative to Cloudflare DNS? I've been using 1.1.1.1 since it was launched, but now this makes me want to switch to something better.
Turtle Logo on the front page -- perfect time to ask my question:

What's a good starter Logo for a precocious 5-year-old?

The things that are important to me are high quality graphics (both of the turtle and the line), an animated turtle, and keyboard-only control (he can't use a mouse very well).

ACSLogo for Mac OS ( http://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/ ) nails the graphics really well, but the trouble is that you can't define procedures from the command line -- you have to go into a special window to add a procedure. It also doesn't have the "up-arrow for last command."

Any suggestions?
> I don't want to touch the handle. = Give me a foot controlled valve.

If you want to save a bit of water, you can get faucets that are "touch" controlled (on/off). That way you can touch the faucet with your wrist/forearm/back of hand to turn it on/off. Temp is controlled by the knob position so it stays the same temp through on/off cycles until you move the knob.
I feel the same way.
Electrics are neat, though - especially if you make your own: https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/reverse-engineering...

But I just like the 'ambiance' too much. There are always different levels of risk adverseness: if I was considering candles a pollution health hazard I should also stop riding motorcycles, vaping various things, and stop eating like I do...
What are you referring to? The top comment is not mine and also does not make that declaration, it correctly states that the difference is statistically insignificant.
In my parents home, their dishwasher and washing machine is connected to both. In both the houses I've lived in in the last 10 years, all the appliances I have had have had their own heaters.

> can't see why it would make sense to connect to the cold water line

My hot water line might be a different temperature to what my dishwasher works at. If it's too high, were wasting energy by heating up the water too much. If it's too low, the dishwasher doesn't work properly. Some people don't have 100% hot water on demand; in the UK and Ireland, having a hot water tank is common (and will likely be common when ground/air source pumps are installed, or if electric boilers are used), and there's no guarantee that the tank will have enough wayer at the right temperature
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I don’t mean that one or the other is harder, just that doing both takes longer. If Toyota has a battery pack design and factory layout their happy with then they can “just” copy it which saves time over designing the equipment then factory and then building it.

As to your 10+x comment that’s very true today, but Toyota isn’t selling any EV’s. It’s perfectly reasonable for them to have a conservative adoption curve right now rather than assuming their going to sell 10m EV’s in 8 years and then potentially massively over build capacity. This is especially true if their aiming for true mainstream cars without significant markup to justify more risky investments.
You are apparently mistaking my description of the world as it is for an endorsement of the world as it is.

I guess I don't think that police should be (somehow) specially prevented from any police related political activity, but that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge the age old question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
This is normal in the UK because BBC never had ads. I remember foreign cartoons would often actually cut back in time slightly.
It could be quite confusing but I just accepted it as some weird characteristic of TV.

For example Scooby Doo would be falling to his death... Fade to black... Fade back in... and he's higher up (?!)... Shaggy swings in and saves him.
Alternatively, the cop uses a bunch of highly sensitive field drug tests on your car and gets a false positive. In america it seems that's enough to jail people. And then they lose their jobs, their home.
Thanks for your response. Your numbers are better than what I came up with, but I thought I'd check just in case I was missing a great deal somewhere.
This is exciting. Magnetic field strength is a key component for enabling magnetic confinement fusion. This is because energy gain and power density scales to the 3rd and 4th power with magnetic field strength but only ~linearly with reactor size. See following equations for more details: https://youtu.be/xJ2h3vbOag4?t=306

So, why is this particular announcement exciting? There are 3 factors:

1. This is a high temperature superconductor. I can't find any references, but as far as I remember the substrate they are using needs to be cooled to (WRONG, it was cooled to 20degK, see reply by MauranKilom) 60-70 degK to achieve super conductivity. Compare to magnets used in ITER which need to be cooled to 4degK. This is the difference between using relatively cheap liquid nitrogen vs liquid helium.

2. Field strength of 20 Tesla is significantly higher than 13 Tesla used in ITER. Given that magnetic confinement fusion scales significantly better with field strength vs reactor size, this will enable much smaller reactor to be power positive. See following links for more details on ITERs magnets: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2280763-worlds-most-pow... https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/2700

3. Finally, the magnet was assembled from 16 identical subassemblies, each of which used mass manufactured magnetic tape. This is significantly cheaper and more scalable than custom magnet design/manufacturing used by ITER.

The kicker is how 3 of the factors above interact with the cost of the project. Stronger magnets allow smaller viable reactors. High temperature superconductors + smaller reactors allow for a much simpler and smaller cooling system. Smaller reactors + scalable magnet design further drives down the cost. Finally, cost of state of art mega projects scales somewhere between 3rd and 4th power with the size of the device. Combining all of the above factors, SPARC should be here significantly sooner than ITER and cost a tiny fraction (I would guesstimate that fraction to be between 1/100 and 1/10,000).

edit: typos + looked at the cost of ITER and refined my cost fraction guesstimate + corrected some stuff based on the reply by MauranKilom.
Am I missing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Supra
Yeah, and that point is when we have enough people vaccinated. Which should be done by December. Then we can join the new normal. I would classify that as temporary.
Most of such jobs pay peanuts (relatively speaking). Academia is something to consider as a hobby or after you retire.
That runs contrary to my experience as well. Fats, syrups, and greens - you don’t necessarily have to rinse and scrub but try to leave some starchy sticky rice or eggs to dry on the plate and that stuff may not come off, it will be dried and cemented even further.
This works OK, too.

I prefer the "no revisiting" rule because it places backpressure on participants to not veto unless they really meann it. If they really would be OK with the restaurant such that they would allow revisiting it, then they probably shouldn't veto in the first place.

This tends to make the game go faster, which is an important goal.
I was just looking at these this AM. They are $$$$ but so beautiful.
Boiling it down to just education is too reductionist. Education is part of reciprocal human interaction and the academy (often associated with education) is itself an ancient institution. What's different is our collection and employment of knowledge.
Yes, but what if you could borrow $100M at 3% interest collateralized by $200M worth of your equity. Then, when you IPO, you just pay back the $100M * 1.03^t.