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> some people

Members of the public posing basic questions. In supermarkets where many thousands per day pass, when the infected are measured as several per thousands, the arithmetic product returns """many several infected per day""" with some contact with the supermarket personnel. Such image creates a difficulty in conceiving a model for transmission, model which people want to form as a basic operation when told "there is an epidemic". The tentative answer "some are probably able to block it earlier than full response" was informally circulating as an answer to the said basic question. ("Informally": when you ask your practitioner, your friend in the lab etc.) This article is a proposal for a formal answer.

> asymptomatic covid19

Covi_D_19 is the Disease. These cases are not cases of diseased - they are much more "at ease" than the asymptomatic diseased. They get their share of virions but block the infection immediately: they do not result as "having been infected" upon test.
That’s overly pessimistic, I think.

While we would indeed need to process seawater at an enormous scale, that becomes necessary after roughly 24 times longer into the future than the first nuclear power plant is into the past, which is when the non-seawater fuel runs out. This is too far into the future to make realistic predictions about technology or industry.

As for it being too late to stop global warming: well yes, but because that ship sailed some time ago. As is said of various things and time periods, the best time to do it was a few decades ago, the second best time is today.

The bigger problem is the political viability, both internally and internationally. How does Iran ever use nuclear power when every reactor is destroyed by an Israel afraid that Iran wants the atom bomb?

But, instead of thinking of it as all or nothing, think of the reactors than can be built as storage or intercontinental power grid capacity that doesn’t need to be built, or at least that we don’t need on the same time frame.

Right now, solar is doing what nuclear promised and failed to deliver for costs; batteries, while cheap enough to make electric cars interesting, are still more expensive for shifting day production to night load than just using nuclear to start with, and my preference of a global power grid needs a few decades to build even with (unrealistic) zero political concerns. All of this can probably be helped with nuclear.
Sometimes. But if I'm flying out to somewhere at 6am, the alternative is often that I'd just be spending the night in my own bed. Now, to be honest, I'm sometimes fine with heading down somewhere the day before and having a relaxing evening at my destination. But that may not be ideal for people with families and isn't really justified from a business standpoint.
Could this be something to do with the 1889 pandemic? Some have theorized that it was caused by a coronavirus and its descendent is still circulating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic
I started to watch, but I was really turned off by the heavy editing/splicing of the the girl at 30 seconds talking. It goes like this:

"Personally, as like a middle class" [splice] "I feel like" [splice] "it should be raised but at like a point it's like" [splice] "the rich are not gonna agree with it because they're gonna feel like why them."

That's way too much splicing, within a single sentence, to make me feel comfortable watching this in good faith....

Edit: I watched the full thing. It concludes with someone saying ""And if you're interested in helping us expose more liberal bias on college campuses across the nation, you can donate [here]" ~ no obvious agenda there. /s
This is a red herring. Where are all the people that are unsure of the security of virtualization? There is some Xen vulnerability every year that is the equivalent of the house burning down, but where is the Azure support article that suggests disabling Xen? (Oh right, you can't.)

I mean, the article is totally right of course, you shouldn't run untrusted code - THAT INCLUDES THE FREAKING HYPERVISOR.
Let's have it handle tabs or spaces while we're at it. The answer could always be "whatever you prefer".

As long as you don't mix tabs and spaces in the same file python is fine with either.
I'm sure it will let you make that label, but it won't be able to make any sense of it. Maybe I was slightly wrong that only syntax highlighting will be helped by the "standard" syntax, but the point remains that none of the (existing) tooling can properly make sense of those parts of the code. That $ isn't really a label, it's a reaction, which your linter knows nothing about and can't help you with; at best it can "work around" it.
Perhaps because of confidentiality? Lawyers would best understand the pros and cons of Google's Terms and conditions, and are probably the only one who read it.
The best way to stop drunk driving is to subsidize autonomous driving tech.
Remind me why Apple continues to work with a country that is responsible for some of the most egregious, disgusting human rights abuses again?
Because there are places where indentation signifying intention breaks down.

The classic example being the arbitrary restrictions on the Python lambda syntax.

Ruby is more orthogonal and systematic. Everything is an object, and you call methods on those objects. And sending a block as a method parameter gives you something that very much resembles functional programming (minus the immutability).

There are a few other constructs (it's not quite so dogmatic about object orientation as Smalltalk), but Ruby is very regular and so you can understand how everything works with a small number of syntactic constructs.
As I understand it, neither of those statements are exactly true.

Tesla replaces battery packs and then sends the old one back to the factory to be refurbished, rather than junked.

As for future designs, a structural battery pack would still be replaceable. The difference is that the battery pack would supply a portion of the strength and rigidity of the frame. That doesn’t mean the car would fall apart if you removed it, however.
You missed the point. Try to keep up with everything on Reddit or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter if you follow enough people. You can’t. It is impossible. It is designed to be impossible in order to be addictive.

HN it is not only possible, as you can wait a whole hour without any relevant update in posts. In the other sites soft reload of the feed after 1 second will change the posts.

But answering your question, I don’t see coming back every hour as a problem. Precisely because it is enough interval time to not incentivize an addictive behavior so you don’t feel the need to come back every hour. It is much easier to ditch any addiction you might have on HN because you are forced to take a break since you know there won’t be any new thing to give you a reward. On Instagram you can consume it 24/7.

Imagine if slot machines had to make you wait 5 minutes between plays. They would be exponentially less addictive
Cost efficiency of renewables is a problematic topic, because it tends to avoid discussing their intermittency, only how much power costs when they happen to work (which isn't under control).

So you have other side of the coin where renewable buildup ends up with fossil fuel burning to cover the inevitable shortages, while peak renewable low costs are used to badger dispatchable tech into non-existence
Pure math concepts like complex numbers are not naturally existing, just waiting for us to find them, they're human-defined tools to describe things. Like new words, they're invented. They wouldn't be there without us, as they are, for the most part, artifacts of our cognition.
Reliable solar power for $40/MWh:

https://www.energy-storage.news/developer-8minute-says-more-...
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Then Lua is for you! :-)
> There are even breeder reactors with passive safety and very nice safety records, waylaid only by funding and partially by geopolitics (ok, coolant is expensive as hell, but that's because we don't mine enough bismuth)

Reactors cooled with lead-bismuth eutectic have a somewhat nasty problem of polonium production. To the extent we'll see lead-cooled reactors I'm more hopeful about plain lead. It has a higher melting temperature yes, but it seems workable. There are a couple of promising efforts in this direction.
Its coming
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According to TFA, conventional nuclear power plants would exhaust the available uranium resources in 5.7 years if used to provide 100% of the world primary energy. The world could not possibly have followed Sweden and France even if it wanted to.
DDR4 RAM has the same latency as DDR2 RAM. DDR5 will probably have the same latency as well.

In 2002, our processors were so thin they could only execute maybe 2-instructions per clock tick. Today, we've got CPUs that hit 4 (x86 L1 cache), 6 (x86 uop cache), or 8 (Apple M1) instructions per tick.

With many problems still memory-latency bound (aka: any Java code going through blah->foo()->bar()... look at all those pointer indirections!!), it makes sense to "find other work to do" while the CPU stalls on memory latency.

The RAM supports higher bandwidth. The CPU supports more instructions-per-tick. Spending effort to find work to do just makes sense.
perhaps you are thinking of one of these:

December 2, 2001 – Lia radiological accident: In the village of Lia, Georgia three lumberjacks discovered two 90Sr cores from Soviet radioisotope thermoelectric generators. These were of the Beta-M type, built in the 80s, with an activity of 1295 TBq each. The lumberjacks were scavenging the forest for firewood, when they came across two metal cylinders melting snow within a one meter radius laying in the road. They picked up these objects to use as personal heaters, sleeping with their backs to them. All lumberjacks sought medical attention individually, and were treated for radiation injuries. One patient, DN-1, was seriously injured and required multiple skin grafts. After 893 days in the hospital, he was declared dead after sepsis caused by complications and infections of a radiation ulcer on the subject's back. [48] The disposal team consisted of 24 men who were restricted to a maximum of 40 seconds worth of exposure (max. 20mSv) each while transferring the canisters to lead-lined drums.

October 21, 1994 – a large caesium-137 source was stolen by scrap metal scavengers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish, Estonia. The man who carried the source home received a 4,000 rad whole-body dose and died 12 days after first taking it. In addition, the man's stepson sustained radiation burn injuries to his hands after he found and touched the source after the man had placed it inside a kitchen drawer

and the following stories are new to me and very disturbing. radiation is a long lasting invisible fire. not too scary except that we can't see it without tools.

January 23, 2008 – A licensed radiology technologist, Raven Knickerbocker, at Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata, California performed 151 CT scan slices on a single 3 mm level on the head of a 23-month-old child over a 65-minute period. The child suffered radiation burns (skin erythema) to a small strip of his face and head. In one report, an independent investigation of the child's blood was said to have found "substantial chromosomal damage"[65] but subsequent reports reported no lasting harm.[66] The technologist was fired, and her license was permanently revoked on March 16, 2011 by the state of California, citing "gross negligence".[65] The hospital's radiology manager, Bruce Fleck, testified that Knickerbocker's conduct was "a rogue act of insanity".

October 2011 – At a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, a 7-year-old girl was treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia with whole brain radiation. The prescriptions were done manually in a form with no formal peer review process. Because of an error in the registration of the number of sessions, she received the full dose in each session of radiotherapy. Even with early toxicity, the doctor refused to assess the patient, because some of the complaints were usual. The full treatment was finished in about 8 sessions and the girl was admitted with radiation burns. She developed frontal lobe necrosis and died in June 2012. After an investigation, the physicist, technician, and physician were charged with manslaughter.[79]
- Running Mileage on Strava. (have a goal of 2K for the year)

- Winnings/Losses $ each week on FanDuel/DraftKings

- MPGe while driving with a Prius Prime
Even if we created all our power from solar, it's negligible in land use compared to things like roads or agricultural land.
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A simpler solution:

Weighted score = (positive + alpha) / (total + beta)

In which alpha and beta are the mean number of positive and total votes, respectively. You may wish to estimate optimal values of alpha and beta subject to some definition of optimal, but I find the mean tends to work well enough for most situations.
Sure, but this project doesn't seem to use any NFTs so why bring it up?
Stay with b1b2 visa was extended by US government and total stay in US is 8 months. When person leaves to home country after how much time he can return to US with same visa?
How closely have you followed the layers of mitigations which the major browser engines have implemented? I think a more interesting form of this question is asking how often people are exposed to malicious code which isn't covered by the browser sandboxes.
If the idea is to leverage the Redis protocol for an “API”, what are the benefits to this approach over using the built-in `pub-sub` and the regular old C implementation of Redis Server?

I could maybe see some really specific use-cases for this but for probably 90% of cases implementing a distributed process API should be able to go over pubsub fine shouldn’t it? Or does pubsub have some sort of massive overhead?

EDIT: Just because it’s tangential to the topic at hand, and since I’m up here at the top, I also wanna throw out a nod to libraries like `nng` and `nanomsg` which are spiritual successors to ZeroMQ and they have functionality like brokerless RPC/pubsub built in as messaging models. I don’t see tools like this talked about a lot in this space cuz systems software isn’t the sexiest but if you need to embed a small and lightweight messaging endpoint in your backend stuff then look at those as well. No horse in the race, just like sharing useful tools with people.

https://nng.nanomsg.org
Is this assuming Inflation is isolated in US only?
What happen if there is a global inflation?
If cost of living is high in the US; one can just pick up and leave (for the FIRE/Single digital Nomad).
Oil extraction is impressive as hell in terms of the capital that goes into it. It entails some of the most amazing engineering ever done. But the fact is that renewables capex is now almost as big and growing about as fast, at 15%, as oil capex is declining.
Those things are negative externalities. In this case, apartment buildings are receiving e.g. a carton of free new laptops that they could sell or donate. Yes, in some sense it's "littering", but it's not littering of valueless trash that costs more than it's worth to dispose of. It costs Amazon more than it's worth, but to pretty much any regular human being, it's like Amazon "littered" a stack of $20 bills in their apartment lobby.

And, because this stuff has value, it will very likely all get reused (i.e. resold or donated into the secondary market), not thrown away. Which will satisfy some of the demand for the products Amazon is selling, replacing an order someone would have made for a new product. Which means this act doesn't even have any externalities for the environment—nothing is going to landfill that otherwise wouldn't.

So I honestly don't get your comparison.
Not just that, but when a company or process is ISO-whatever certified, how am I supposed to know what that means? (The technical rules, not the marketing.) If I need to pay to read the criteria for it, that certification might as well be meaningless.
Yep. The Boston to NYC train is almost always my choice compared to flying. (Driving would be faster but I hate driving into Manhattan though I could drive to New Haven and take commuter rail from there.)

But, while I've done it, Boston to DC doesn't really make a lot of sense unless I'm looking for an excuse to do some reading, etc. for a day.
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I used to spend a lot of time in the forums back when android was new and I was flashing custom ROMs every other day. I haven't felt the need to do that in years though. I remember the front page having more substantive content though.
Another is the small modular SVBR-100, which is essentially civilian version of submarine reactor that could be packed onto single rail car, and has no sodium nor fluoride involved.

The problem is that since 1995 or so there was never enough funding to go to production.
Do you forsee the government doing anything able slow wait times for Visa/green cards?
I don't understand what you mean. How are parentheses relevant? Also, personally I hate the parenthesis completion, it gets in the way more than it helps.

By "parentheses" do you mean "brackets"? If so, sure, you can use indentation along with brackets, but why am I now using two things? With Python, all I need to do is backspace every once in a while, to signify the end of indentation, which is very easy to do.
There’s a queue coming for Tesla charging
How would you build a fully nuclear grid without storage?

Seems a really weird thing for nuclear enthusiasts to mention.

It's like you're just passing on fossil fuel talking points without even reflecting on whether they make sense for nuclear.
There are enough iOS developers to make some difference. And I think that if it weren't for those iOS developers, who have no choice but to run MacOS, there would be many fewer developers using Macs.
Are any of those undervalued right now? The problem is that I can buy a condo and then have the bubble pop and still lose 50% in its value
I also love the cleanliness of Python compared to bracketed languages.
When I was younger and learning the language it seemed to be beneficial in forcing more structure and readability in the code (no ridiculous obfuscation by single line programs).

There was an article the other day showing how to take latex math notes in neovim the other day.
They showed a plugin that displays a render of text on lines that the cursor is not on.

Perhaps there is a way to set that up for languages with brackets? Just show the brackets relevant to that line (and the closing ones perhaps)
There's definitely a bias in security toward "sexy" vulnerabilities that are novel and creative but hard to exploit in practice vs boring "forgot to bounds check" or "off by one logic error" type vulnerabilities that are pervasive.

SMT (a.k.a. hyperthreading) is kind of a security minefield, but so is out of order execution and crufty instruction sets like x86_64. But vulnerabilities of this sort tend to be hard to exploit in the wild. Not saying you shouldn't be concerned about them, but how concerned you are should depend on your threat model. If I were really paranoid and could pick I'd choose something like a low-power simple ARM or RISC-V core to do critical computation. Alternatively you could run your secure compute on any system as long as nobody is allowed to run any other code on that system or have physical access to it.

BTW I am deeply surprised that there has never been a cloud hypervisor doomsday vulnerability that has brought down AWS or some other huge provider. Back when virtualization in the cloud got big I would have bet serious money that this would have happened by now.
Asking for a friend - Is it possible to start a startup/side biz (while keep doing his full-time job)by an H1B visa holder with his wife if the wife is on H4 EAD?
What does 'nerfed' mean in this context?
It seems like kind of a fun hack but I'm not sure what this is getting you. Is this some kind of an RPC-style thing built on Redis? And I'm not sure where the comparison to HTTP is coming from. I have a lot of questions.
Going by your post history, you tightened from "YC and Startups" to just "YC Startups" for most of 2021 before broadening back out again - what happened during that time?

(on a larger scale as best as you can tell, rather than just an uptick in personal business)
> That really is a narrow, normie view.

What does “normie” mean in this context? Is it the new “square”?
For anyone unfamiliar, Khmer is phonetically written, with (from an English speaking perspective) complicated rules for character placement thats arent always 'linear', eg some characters go above or below the previous or next character. The phonetic order is confusing. As mentioned in the article, there are a lot of characters, and no spaces between words. There are also at least two competing systems/programs for typing these characters on a standard keyboard.

There is no real standard romanisation similar to Pinyin for Chinese. The UN tried creating one in the 90s, and there are a couple of homegrown alternatives, but as mentioned in the article, most people just kind of make up the spelling and hope the recipient can figure it out. Until quite recently lot of people still had 'dumb' phones sending character limited sms, so spelling has been 'creative' (I stopped carrying a dumb phone as a daily driver probably around 2017-18, so really quite recent).

Basically as the article says, its a huge pain in the ass to type in Khmer, especially on a phone. If that crack team of overpaid consultants had jumped on the phone to anyone in Cambodia, they could have explained why voice messaging is so prevalent.
> t's not their little trivial masks that have been protecting them from a daily bombardment of SARS2.

Are you sure?

What if the reduction of viral load, such as social distancing or masks, is what's causing them to have COVID19 resistance?

A cotton mask has 60% filtration. An N95 mask has 95% filtration. If you "breath" in 1000 virus particles, someone with a cotton mask would only breath in 400 of them, while the one with N95 would breath in 50 virus particles.

I have to imagine that viral load would cause some kind of change.

Maybe there is a big difference between breathing in 1000-particles vs breathing in 400-particles. There seems to be no controversy that N95 works (aka: the reduction from 1000 particles down to 50-particles). But cotton masks are still an order-of-magnitude drop (at least, a binary-magnitude).
I feel the harder question is finding companies that hire for broad experience, aptitude, and are willing to pay you more than a fresh grad at MANGA.
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Just look around. Do you see it adopted anywhere?
Personally? None, I have already to many of those at work. Single exception: mpg for my 1982 Range Rover V8, because of reasons.

Professionally? Right now not enough of those needed and to much of pointless ones. I try to get people to use the proper KPIs for what they are doing so, it seems to be quite an uphill battle. Because who really cares when POs are placed as long as they are delivered on time (which nobody is monitoring right now...)?
If these servers are "general multi-user environments", are you sure you're really getting any benefit at all out of SMT? It's never a magical 200% performance silver bullet, not even for highly specialized workloads.