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Not the current discussion but just the general trend of discourse and observation. All Ads are bad, we should live in an ad free world. Charge for content and yet proven not to be a business model for a lot of media. ( It only works on Financial Times and the likes )

ISO standards should be free. Who is going to paid the employees of ISO organisation? 5G Patents are scam, why should they charge for standards usage? Who is paying for the Tech innovation within University Research and Telecom Industry spending billions every year. And the list goes on and on.

There is clearly lots of value these brings to the table. I just dont understand why they should be free. And Why is this Intel Software activated Hardware Rent Seeking? The BOM cost of an Intel 10nm inclusive of testing and packing without their Foundry margin is practically a few dollars per core. One could even argue have all the different SKUS have different set of operational complexities. So why is this wrong?
With the exception of NixOS, with which it's well integrated. The integration is a bit of an oddball, though.

Kinda typical... nice to have though!
I’m a bit surprised by the number of comments here basically saying if we can’t logically prove that X feels pain, then it’s fine to do whatever with it, or that if we don’t know exactly where the line should be drawn, then there’s no line to be drawn at all.

Do you all always behave according to well-defined rules within a consistent logical system?

I don’t think you can prove to me that you or your pets feel pain, so what would be the logical consequence of that?
>However, measuring both of those is generally very difficult, and so determining if something is sentient can be difficult.

That makes sense. So then, we should probably be very cautious about statements that openly entertain such possibilities given that they may be hard to substantiate meaningfully.

>The bar for sentience is basically, "is it more than automatic". Which is fairly low and easy to clear. It doesn't even require that there be consciousness.

Huh, every definition I've seen when I read about this stuff in college, and that I currently see when I google, explicitly relates in some way to consciousness. And anything that means "reaction" "sense" "detect" in a sense pertinent to sentience meant some kind of conscious sensing, conscious reacting. Did the definition change at some point?
Oh, nice tip. Didn't know this was a thing until now. Thanks.
I have never seen a carrot flee in terror from a threat, or flock eagerly towards a person that regularly feeds it, or curiously investigate a new structure in its habitat.
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There's more to the story than the headline suggests. Like big oil is involved.
This sounds mind-blowing, except that current public sentiment seems strongly against space exploration and that may catch up with budgets.

Even though SpaceX does the launches, it is government agencies that deal with launching missions, and government budgets are influenced by public opinion.
You are just talking about when they are applied, not what can be done. Nothing was removed from C++: you can still write templates with structural constraints, or trait constraints, or any mix.

In Rust, a generic is only right or wrong, in isolation. In C++, how it behaves, including whether it compiles, depends on how you choose to use it. That makes C++ templates strictly more powerful than Rust facilities. Rust could relax some restrictions, selectively, to gain that power, and might someday.

Preventing the "compiler vomit" is a main selling point of Concepts, and it works. It is still possible to subvert it, if you work at that (then you are no worse off than before). So, don't.
Both times I've taken time off without plans have been really transformative for me.

In the first I discovered I had a passion for helping other people learn and ended up working at MIT on the Scratch project and then with Bret Victor (http://worrydream.com) at his research lab, both really amazing opportunities.

In the second I decided to quit tech to become a therapist. You can read about that here: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

Your mileage may vary.
in biometrics this is called a Presentation Attack (PA), here the fake fingerprint is the analog of presenting a photograph, video or 3dp mask to a face recognition system. this is usually mitigated by the use of Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) systems, either hardware, software or hybrid. in this particular case it can easily be mitigated by some hardware that measures the amount of water in the biometric sample, for instance capacitive sensor, transparent conductive electrodes or maybe even better some optical sensor that is sensitive to SWIR wavelengths reflectivity differences (1000 and 1200 nm would be great here). a short scholar search will indeed reveal that this is a very active area of research, and probably will reveal tens of papers from our group which is a leader in this.
You missed Canada at #5. And Taiwan (#11) & SK allocating around 15% of their seats to PR- recently, as in the last three years- I would not call a 'significant amount' of PR
Show HN: Centrifugo – self-hosted real-time messaging server written in Go
In the case of Flask: It would be incredibly inconvenient to restart your development server and have it show up on a random port every single time.

The only time fixed port numbers are inconvenient is when they conflict, but otherwise they're much easier to work with.
I quit my job last November. In January I started my own business doing machine learning consulting. It took off slowly, until July I was not making too much, only small clients.

Then business started taking off and now I'm too busy for my own good. I learned a lot. Biggest lesson is that I need to charge more. A lot more. Another thing that surprised me was what brought in the most income, both in absolute terms and in a per hour rate, so I'll have to reconsider my positioning and marketing strategy for next year.

And I love what I'm doing and I feel like growing a lot. There have been many moments where I doubted things (The Dip as Seth Godin calls it), but somehow I got over them.
I would argue that the devices you carry with you are exactly the ones you shouldn’t use biometrics for.

Law enforcement can force you to use biometrics to unlock a phone. They have used dead bodies to unlock phones.[0]
What they can’t do is make you remember a code/password which you have “forgotten.”

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/03/22/yes-c...
You are certainly right that risk assessment is hard, but with manageable I primarily meant that the myocarditis which was detected was primarily mild in the young age group(at least in Germany where I followed the reports) and didn't lead to any deaths or severe impairments.

The risk for myocarditis from Comirnaty for 12-17 aged men is given at 4.8 in 100.000 vaccinations. Of those the larger than expected analysis showed that 10 out of the 78 total cases would have been expected without vaccination.
The 3d ridges from the 2d printer comes from the raised lettering, which is transferred to the dried acetate glue.
Could you steel man your argument? I don't see how there is zero connection. To me it seems that the other person oversimplified your argument.

Would be interested in hearing an example from your real life that would illustrate this point a bit better, if you have the time to elaborate.
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I'm seeing starting pay ranges bottoming out at $11 an hour to $14 an hour, which is as much as an $8 an hour pay cut, also less than fast food is currently paying with zip codes 30~ miles away. The one that lists $11 an hour as the low end requests 5 years of experience.
How long did it take you? It may be faster in Indiana, but this was basically my first idea in California a very long time ago when I was unhappy working in nonprofit fundraising management. The background check/psych eval and all the various hoops took 13 months to get through before I finally got an offer, and by then I'd joined the Army instead. And California required a college degree to become a corrections officer.

Beware, of course, that part of the reasons corrections jobs pay well is that prisons tend to be located in the middle of nowhere and they have to pay premiums to entice people to move out there. Your wife may not want to go.
> You have to commit to learning NixOS and understand that you are only learning NixOS, it won't help you use anything else.

This is kind of true on a surface level, but NixOS experience can be super helpful for setting up other distros because it turns Nixpkgs into a repository of high quality examples and demos that are always up to date.

Once you learn some basics of reading Nix code and how the NixOS module system works, the Nixpkgs repo itself becomes an excellent cross-distro resource on how to configure Linux software, much like the Arch and Gentoo wikis. I often consult Nixpkgs on how to do things in Linux for the purposes of configuring another distro or helping another user to do so! :)
GitHub: Dev productivity is back to pre-pandemic levels – InfoWorld
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Oh, that wasn’t an exhaustive list, just the places my wife and I go. We also have various american, african, asian, and middle eastern corner stores and a dozen restaurants, Dollar Store type shops, liquor stores, and some other things I’m forgetting. But I also live between a large park and a body of water so there’s presumably less area in my “1km radius” than yours. Either way, my point wasn’t that my US city is better than European cities, but rather that it’s more walkable than most American cities.
Around here (NY, USA) the metal recycling places I've been to keep a copy of your drivers license on file, and check it every time you go to the office to cash out. They're rather good at picking up suspicious activity. I've only been to the large facilities though, so there might be some smaller less scrupulous facilities somewhere of course.
We weigh stuff against human lives all the time. Cars, bridges, buildings, and industrial machines all make tradeoffs between safety and cost. We generally value a random life at about $7-10 million - much less than a faberge egg. In reality, adding up all the grief of loved ones, $7 million might be about right.

Treating life as some sort of priceless treasure really is divorced from reality too. I think most people would choose to shoot an arsonist before they could burn the Mona Lisa, and that's totally rational.
Of course you can meaningfully measure effectiveness. Effectiveness (real world) is measured by comparing reported infection rates between the vaxxed and unvaxxed. Those not only fall with time (why do you believe otherwise?) but are now negative in the UK, where I'm from: vaccinated people are getting COVID at a higher rate and nobody has a good explanation of why ("behavioural differences" being the government's current choice). This real world data is then adjusted to try and turn it into efficacy (ideal conditions, vaccine only).
I don't get the metaphor.

Does it mean the first pancake in the batch? I haven't ever noticed a problem. (Sometimes I do a full-pan mega-pancake where I only make one pancake.)

Or the first time someone tries making pancakes? But isn't that true of a lot of things you make the first time?

I assume the first, as in "Gotta get your sea legs" or Brooks' "Build one to throw away" (with the followup "second-system effect".)

... Oh, I'm an old fart. It's a phrase, like https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=first%20panc... from 10 years ago.

FWIW, follow the advice at https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-have-to-throw-out-the-first... - make sure the pan is up to temp, don't use much grease (I use butter), and give the leavening time to act.
This is quite impressive.

I would love to see if we can have something similar that doesn't require JS at all, so we can execute x86 programs server-side just using Wasm translation (hi Wasmer).

Here's another interesting project I found recently that I think fits as well on the asm2wasm translation mechanism: https://github.com/copy/v86/
Well, apparently Flask or other web dev environments fail to start if their default port is already in use...
But you get 10 times the nutrition density from animal protein.
Most likely every emoji was broken up into segments that are tagged for what they are + their relative importance to the emoji + where they should be located. When combining two emoji's you pick out the top weighted parts of the emoji and combines them in some clever way. Llama+bee becomes a yellow striped lama with antennae.

Certain modifications are made in some cases like where Bread+Cat results in a cat wearing a bread "helmet" where you see the cat's body (which you normally don't). There are most likely high-level rules governing this so it doesn't have to be made on each single emoji combination. Most likely emoji's tagged [animal] combined with "Bread" uses that pattern. [animal]+[animal] becomes the first animal wearing the second animal as a costume and so on.
>No, it's the suburbs that lack economy of scale. The walkable areas contribute far more per acre in taxes than the suburbs. They also require fewer resources to maintain per person because they're physically smaller. The suburbs have such a paucity of "economies of scale" that municipalities around the country have gone into debt to support them.

Yes, Strong towns loves to say this too despite it being obviously not true.

Infrastructure stuff like roads and pipes and so on is cheap. Usually 10-15% of the budget. The real cost of government is in providing services to people. And those are invariably more expensive in the cities than the suburbs.

Show me even one city in the US that has lower taxes and spends less per Capita than the surrounding suburbs.
laughs in Java, where enums ARE polymorphic classes
Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi
Here you go: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/food/2020/f...

That’s where I got the chef’s quote from.
I was thinking the same thing. Begging my friends for money would land me a couple hundred dollars, maybe a thousand if I cry enough, and I definitely don't have any friends that would let me gamble money on crypto and pay me back if I lose it. It's interesting seeing the stark difference in safety nets.
Rust is, in fact still quite a long distance behind C++ in expressive power, and moving toward it. But C++ is not standing still.
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I left a job earlier this year due to health issues both for me and my wife, plus the strained childcare situation due to Covid had us both close to burnout already. It was the best decision we could make for the health of our family. Instead I've been working on something which I still haven't released, but it's close. Our financial future is not really dependent on this project replacing my full salary within X months or anything, so I find that it hasn't added any extra stress so far. We'll see what happens long term though. I'm not ruling out getting a job again if this project fails, but so far it's been very nice!
Jobs in those places also tend to pay a lot higher than the median salary.
My job sucked and I hated it (doing sales analytics for a FinTech startup). Boss was an asshole, his boss was an asshole. You know how it goes. I had probably a year's worth of living expenses so I said fuck it and just quit with nothing lined up. I had the idea that I was going to try to start a business. That didn't really get off the ground. I'm still piecing together why exactly. Perhaps I'm not the kind of person that's good at that kind of thing.

In the end I spent about 4 months unemployed. I did get a new job, which paid better than my previous one (and had less assholes). And then about month into that, a FAANG recruiter hit me up and I got a job at one of those places. Ended up doubling the salary I had originally quit at. So it all worked out. But I feel I got very lucky.
No, anything based on their mRNA tech became toxic after multiple doses. That's why they refocused on vaccines even though vaccines were historically considered much less profitable than other kinds of drugs: they're less profitable exactly because you get one once, and then you're done for life. Thus by making vaccines instead of the other kinds of drugs they originally planned to make, they could work around their unfixable toxicity issues.

Except now, endless dosings of that very same tech are being mandated. Note: no announcements at any point about how they found some fix for this problem.

I've updated my original post with a second story from the same site that makes this problem clearer (spells it out in different words):

"But that hasn’t worked out so far. Moderna’s attempts to make actual drugs from mRNA have been repeatedly hamstrung, proving either too weak or too dangerous to test in clinical trials, former employees and partners said. The company has instead prioritized vaccines, which can be dosed just once and thus avoid the safety problems that have plagued more ambitious projects."
You may not understand this if you are from a foreign country, but the relationship of states to the Federal government in the US is not like the relationship of provinces to the central government in France.

The US is a truly federal system in which each state has its own constitution and its own legal code. This is not a purely theoretical point, it's quite true that there are wide variations in laws between states as well as wide variations in state constitutions, which is one reason why, for example, a lawyer has to pass the bar in each state.

And like any nation, the legal code of a state is the result of historic and ethnic forces applicable to that state. For example, my colleague, who is from Italy, was worried about his mother being mugged repeatedly by some local youths, and he was telling me how worried he was about her. The last time she went to the police, she had the following conversation:

"Why do you keep releasing them? They will just steal again."

"Yes, but they are underage, so there is nothing we can do."

"But if I refused to give them my purse, they could kill me with the knife."

"Possibly."

"But if I were to get a gun to protect myself, and then shoot them the next time they threatened me with a knife, I would be arrested."

"Of course".

"So what can I do to protect myself?"

"Just give them your purse."

"But this is the third purse they have taken, and I can't afford another. Will you pay for the purse?"

"Of course not"

"And you wont put them in jail? You will just release them again?"

"Unfortunately, we have no choice"

"If I wait for them to try to hurt me with the knife and then shoot, would I still be arrested?"

"Probably"

So there are some things that are very difficult for Americans to understand that may make sense to someone from Italy and there is bafflement going in the other direction. In the U.S. if someone threatens you with violence, you generally have the right to defend yourself and to shoot them. You never need to allow someone to physically intimidate you into handing over your belongings, and you always have a right to defend yourself. But apparently this is considered unspeakably wrong in other countries. Fair enough, to each his own. But I will point out that strict laws against defending yourself are only possible in very peaceful societies. In more violent societies, the public will not tolerate being repeatedly robbed with no possibility of self-defense -- that is the origin of mafias in Italy, basically groups for protection when the central government was too weak.

This is one example of how there is no such thing as a "universal" social contract, as all of these rules are contingent on questions like what is the likelihood of being victimized by crime. Social contract theory is itself just a philosophy - and a poor explanation of legal codes - as laws and norms are the results of evolutionary processes involving trial and error, not social contract theory.
It's fair because London is a horrible city. (Rant alert)

It's not just bike and transit unfriendly, it's bad for cars too. There's no easy way to get from one side to the other in less than an hour during the day, short of taking a helicopter.

Compare London to nearby Kitchener/Waterloo. They essentially have a ring road (hwy 85), PLUS a light rail + bus rapid transit system. It's still absolutely full of stroads, but at least it's more accessible and things actually move around.

In London, Oxford is essentially a 10 KM long parking lot every day at 9 AM, and Adelaide spends about two hours a day blocked by freight trains. Every attempt to fix the city frankly makes it worse. I don't know if it's because of poor planning, inept council, the lack of geographical constraints, or some other factor, but this city is the absolute show piece for failed urban design.

So yeah, I think it's completely reasonable to lean into London ON, it's the perfect case study in bad north american cities.
There's also a lot of funny combinations that use three emoji, which you can't do with this page, if anyone's using Gboard already they should definitely give it a go :)
Yeah, this isn't new. It's just cheaper.
Perhaps we can spice up Haskell programming with random alien attacks?

I think games like these have the advantage that they immediately become a tool to be toyed with, although many still complain that getting into Factorio isn't too easy. Until math or a programming language becomes a tool, you have to invest a bit more into it.
Intel similarly recorded record smashing profits while destroying its R&D and tons of its future potential, and AMD and ARM are now a very serious problem for them.

Its entirely possible to post a few years of crazy profits while tanking the company.
> Whereas you would have just left me to irrevocably take my own life in response to temporary problem that had a medical solution readily available.

For the record, I never wrote, said, or claimed that, and your claim is inaccurate. Please refrain from making false claims about me.
There's ActiveAdmin which basically that.
FDM printers probably don't have a high enough resolution, but I wonder if new high resolution resin printers like the phrozen sonic 8k mini ($600) have a high enough resolution to do it.
The Dutch versions of these have elaborate systems to separate pedestrian and bike traffic that minimize the "divide neighborhoods" effect.

The first time I went to the Netherlands I walked from Schiphol airport to the center of Amsterdam and it was an easy but amazing experience. Walking from JFK to Manhattan is a completely possible walk in terms of distance (I usually do better than a 20 minute pace on the flats so it takes only half a day) but when I think of the battle with the infrastructure you'd have to do it's like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
I do really love the art. I wonder if someday, we can walk and explore inside of these artworks.
Ask HN: Will we get smartphones with tactile touchscreens
I'm not a tech expert, but it seems obvious that screens that actually let you feel the image/text displayed would be huge. I want to know if you think such an idea is practical and how long it will take for them to appear on smartphones.
It doesn't sound like you're looking for answers, it sounds like you just are frustrated and want to vent. That's cool, but it's a different problem than "how do you start a new career with minimal qualifications". You're going to have to sacrifice something if you want to switch careers. As a 38 year old myself I feel your pain, but I've often thought about going back to manual labor to get into the trades. I used to stock shelves and bake pies and it was pretty satisfying work.
2017 or 2018 I think, but Fujitsu was going to release a new version this year.