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I'm living in a third-world country (Kazakhstan). Plenty of people here are against any vaccination. Plenty of people are vaccinated, but strongly against any re-vactination. I don't know why that happens, why west was able to vaccinate majority of people. Vaccine is not an issue here, it's free, you just spend a hour and get vaccinated in a nearby hospital. Government is trying to push vaccination through their throats, but it is met with extreme resistance (and some dirty politicians are even building their agenda on anti-vaccination).

I guess, we don't have good enough brain washing media compared to a civilized world. And when people are using their own heads, without trusting government, it sometimes results in a wrong common knowledge.
> I REALLY LOVE THE ROLAND D-50.

Hahahaha!

I did my best work on an SY77 ... /waits/ ... and an Ensoniq EPS ... /crickets/
Masking is a psychological process designed to install compliance. If it was designed to prevent illness you would insist on using the correct sort of mask that filters inbound - since that protects you from failures elsewhere.

I would hope that nobody here would ever design a process that requires 100% compliance to very strict criteria before it has a chance of doing what it is supposed to do. Particularly when there is an obvious and clearly superior alternative that works regardless of what others do.

The whole process we have in place at moment is backwards from a physics point of view - filters under pressure leak, and don't under suction.

Ask yourself why massive studies didn't happen with tightly controlled experiments in normal real world situations where changing masks was the only variable altered. We've had eighteen months to do such work and yet apparently we can't organise it in an unequivocal fashion.

Instead we get people trying to use statistical methods to stitch together alleged proof. Which then leads to reporting bias as cognitive dissonance kicks in.

It's like watching the diet-heart hypothesis again in real time. That took 40 years before it was abandoned.
Ah yeah I read the article at 2am. You’re right I misunderstood what was written!
In China it's not.
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For those looking for more, if you haven't already read Steven Levy's Hackers, it is a great book about the start of the computer revolution. And I'd say Whole Earth (and other events before then) had clear influences on the show Halt and Catch Fire, a fun sort of "almost history" of some early startups.
On Feb. 4, 2020, after a private meeting with Xi, Tedros formally announced to the WHO Executive Board that there was no need to “interfere with international travel and trade” and restricting Chinese flights was “counter-productive” to fighting the global spread of the virus.
Climate change will probably kill a lot of ski towns in the next few decades.
I’m sorry, but I think we’re on different planets here.

I work and live in DC and that’s a forgone conclusion here.

Since I can’t ask you for evidence of China NOT controlling the WHO, maybe I can put it to HN:

Does anybody have a good article for this person to read about China and the WHO?

Maybe google “WHO China Influence”. There are thousands of articles.
Finding the bad queries is easy --- mysql has a slow query log since forever. The problem is finding where the query was generated. And convincing the people who wrote the bad query to use a better one.

Even without that, show process_list or whatever it is tells you how long the query has been running, with mytop you can just look for anything that's been running for more than a couple screen refreshes and start yelling from there.

Usually, when I'm brought in, somebody else designed the tables, poorly, too. There's usually not a whole lot I can do about that, because I don't usually have enough authority to demand a data migration.
The level of institutional racism is much higher in Europe. It is based on location and genetic group. The stuff being addressed in the US isn't on Europe's radar yet. The US is more progressive than Europe on race.
I'll save you some time: @ 10:00: paraphrasing "the tech is less energy dense than highly compressed H2 fuel tanks."

This isn't "solid hydrogen" as the 'clickbaity' title suggests, but rather just another metal hydride for storing H2 (don't get me wrong, there is a lot of promise in this field, just nothing exceptionally 'disruptive' here as the video suggests). H2 is by far much more energy dense than Li-ion batteries, so I'm not sure why the author keeps raising that point (note I'm bullish on H2 for this very reason). For most energy applications, energy density, volatility, and cost
/kWh are the three supreme attributes.

The point that the cost to store the H2 using this method is about 50% that of compressed/liquified H2 is a valid benefit, but without a clear comparison with the MANY other metal hydrides (having similar attributes), the point is largely moot. I do like the role-to-role processing though, that's clever.
yeah, i was recently burned by this.
Fauci provably lied to congress about gain of function research funding. Is that a "good thing" too?
Python has always had the ability to do callbacks (ie. first class functions), though admittedly it's not a common pattern and the stdlib doesn't support it for IO (also its anonymous function syntax is poor).

There have been several libraries that provide the concept of a promise, but with modern python these are built into the stdlib with native async/await support, though many interfaces are still sync-only (though you can work around that with things like gevent that monkey-patch those interfaces to work with an event loop under the hood).

I agree that python would be a poor fit for the kind of uses that JS in the browser usually serve, but it's really a matter of ecosystem, not core language design.
This is very interesting thank you.
>academic space is...overtly hostile to right wingers...

>Why would they trust advice given by people who proclaim their hatred of them?

1. It's all institutions, not just academia.

2. The "right winger" narrative seems to be that everyone is overtly hostile to them (media, academia, Hollywood, scientists, health organizations, voting machine manufacturers, pharma companies, Dr. Fauci, Big Bird, etc.), which apparently somehow justifies all sorts of irrational and anti-social behavior.

3. Deciding whether something is factual based on how you think the people communicating it feel about you is flawed, to put it mildly. But, if you can convince someone that it's a valid approach, then you can manipulate them against all reality.

I do think that poor critical thinking skills, as exemplified in your rationalization here, do play a major role in how we got here though.
TY for the insight.
These were called "privateers", and they were very, very common all through the Age of Sail, not just in the United States, but in essentially all countries with a merchant or naval service.

How it worked was that during the (rare) intervals of peace, you'd keep a stockpile of guns on shore, and run your ship as a more or less ordinary merchant vessel (virtually all of which were armed at the time, though not as heavily armed as a naval vessel or a kitted-out privateer).

When war broke out, as it always did eventually, you'd cram your ship to the gills with guns and crew and get a license from some government (not necessarily your own!) to cruise against that government's enemy. This was called a "letter of marque". It was entirely possible for a (say) Dutch privateer to get a letter of marque from the (say) British government to attack (say) French vessels.

Normally privateers would limit themselves to attacking enemy merchant ships, or occasionally looting enemy ports, as their primary motivation was profit. They typically did not want to tangle with full-blown naval vessels.

Privateers were outlawed in the 19th Century by an international treaty signed by most countries. Interestingly, the United States has never signed that treaty.

The relevant constitutional authority in the United States is Article I Section 8, which explicitly grants Congress the authority to "grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal".

The advantage to the government was that it effectively had a secondary navy it could hot-swap in without having to pay to support it during peacetime.

The advantage to the privateers was that they got to keep the lion's share of the value of any ship, and any ship's cargo, they captured (the government did take a rakeoff, of course, because that is what governments do). It was essentially legalized piracy.

Figure out how much an entire container ship would be worth if you were allowed to just go out and grab one, and you'll be in the right ballpark, except back then it was expensive spices, precious metals, silk, etc. rather than electronic trinkets.

Though it was obviously a high-risk business, some privateer owners (and even crews) became incredibly wealthy from this practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
> if things are correlated, it should at least make a scientist wonder why

Not really.

See: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Good grief, thank you for explaining this to me. I've wondered why I can't get the thing to work.
Anyone who lived through the AIDS epidemic can tell you that having a regulatory body is not automatically better than none at all. FDA bureaucracy and inaction has killed more Americans than WW2. Dissolving the FDA, or at least the gatekeeping branches of it, is a third option that ought to be seriously considered.
Too bad most of the media (and apparently most of HN?) are into natural immunity denialism.
In the model I propose they are not forced to be censored. As soon as they feel like stepping out of the kindergarten they can do just that.
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> For instance: a nation focused solely on its own territory will be unable to prevent a pandemic disease from affecting it if its neighbor manages to cover it up long enough for it spread across the boarder.

Isn’t this what happened with COVID-19 anyways in the present situation with globalism? There were scientists from WIV that were hospitalized in November. A lab leak still seems like the most likely origin theory. China didn’t tell the WHO until the end of December 2019, and it isn’t clear why - perhaps they didn’t want to cause panic, or maybe they wanted to be sure before taking big steps, or maybe they were secretly hoarding medical supplies, or maybe they did not want the rest of the world to continue pandemic-free and leave them behind economically. I cannot say which, but given the kind of things the CCP is willing to do (see Tibet, Hong Kong, Uyghurs, etc.) I wouldn’t put malicious strategy past them. But my point is, even with globalism, I am not sure we get the benefit of neighbors not covering things up - so we might as well try something else?
That's a far cry from claiming that China controls the WHO.

This was simply because at that time there wasn't any evidence to the contrary, which, unfortunately turned out to be not true once more evidence came out.

You know what? We still don't have the whole picture, and we will still come to conclusions that hindsight will tell us is wrong.

But that doesn't mean you need to attribute all of that to malice or control by the Chinese.
Does anyone know the source of the controversy? Are people concerned about the implications this may have on the current historical narrative of human development?
In the US, law enforcement surveilling all messages in order to analyze to look for suspected child abusers would be illegal.

We're talking about hoping that private companies will do it on their own (or be required to do it somehow?) in order to turn over to the police what their systems flag as looking like predators? And that it's important E2EE doesn't interfere with that?
Term limits have also been cited as one factor in the dysfunction of the California legislature after the mid seventies. Essentially the party leadership controls everything because the rank and file are all inexperienced and just vote the way the party tells them to.
I'd love some way to expose an allow-list-restricted subset of YouTube to my 7 y.o. nephew. A couple of days ago, he noticed that his twisty balloons get cold when they deflate, which opened up a huge learning opportunity for adiabatic compression/expansion, Sterling cryocoolers, etc. YouTube search is broken on Grandpa's smart TV and as soon as Grandpa handed him the tablet to do a YouTube search, he was off watching a group of Australians competing to see how many weather balloons they could pop by throwing various items at them.
> one of the best things you can do for them is work towards the dismantling of Western civilization and establishment of a permaculture-based society.

It would take less time and result in less suffering if you just shot them now.
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Point of order- The most stringent border lockdowns actually worked shockingly well, see New Zealand, for example.

Also “you are either in a pandemic, or you aren’t” isn’t the important part of a response framework. The far more important part is preventing novel diseases from becoming a pandemic in the first place, even if they have the potential to be.
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I agree. But you can't deny it is still a lot of people who use Xi as their last name. There are nearly a million in China alone. But I agree that is a weak argument. If a surname is a problem, someone can use that logic to claim the name Corona virus was damaging to the Corona beer brand or the delta variant was damaging to Delta Airlines.
None of these books are very technical tbh. They usually describe principles in simple language (big plus IMO) so they could be consumed in a way you would read a novel.

As for having trouble reading difficuly texts try this - read two pages. Try to recall what you read. Then try to connect it with what you already know. You only need to do it for the fundamentals not every sentence and it will help build up flow.
>>> Stop with the globalism

> Again: nations should handle their borders.

> That means a strong border policy focused on border defense from illegal entry, and reduced, quarantined, and/or eliminated immigration in times of pandemic.

And again, that won't actually work during a pandemic. Are you going to strand your own citizens overseas at a drop of a hat? Diseases can travel in them just as well as in a foreigner. If your focus is exclusively on your own borders and territory, and you're not cooperating with other nations, your border agency is going to be flying blind in the early stages of a pandemic and will probably fail to keep the disease out.

Similarly, even if you do manage to control it internally, the kinds of barriers you'll need to maintain will have massive costs, that may actually be higher than participating in a global response to a global problem.
> I work and live in DC and that’s a forgone conclusion here.

Oh ok, that makes it true then.

> Does anybody have a good article for this person to read about China and the WHO?

How about you go and try to educate yourself a bit about what the WHO actually is and how it is governed before making a fool of yourself like this? The only circles where people really believe that the United Nations and the WHO are run by the Chinese are those that you probably don't want to be associated with.
It's not just about the meltdown. Rocketdyn also illegally disposed of toxic chemicals by burning and/or blowing them up.
The article in question.
The only issue I have seen so far is that constantly exhaling onto your eyes dries them out and can make them more prone to minor infections. Happened to me, doctor told me to not use contacts for a bit and take mask breaks once in a while. Outside of that, medical professionals wear masks all the time. Nurses are often subjects of medical studies because they are an accessible caprice audience. I know of no known cases of mask wearing being a bad thing.
I've met such newly appointed architects myself - judging by the commit history, they were OK writing unmantainable spaghetti for 10 years, then they read a few books on patterns, got promoted to architects and started applying those patterns everywhere (ending up with unmaintainable overengineered abstractions). When arguing during architecture reviews, you'd often hear "but in book X it's written that..." like they don't have their own opinion. Fortunately, they all outgrew this phase and eventually became proper architects.
> Coupled with the fact that SARS-CoV-2 has proven that even the most stringent border lockdowns fail in the face of highly transmissible, asymptomatic threats. Which makes this an "everyone" problem instead of a "head in the sand is okay" one.

The “most stringent border lockdowns” didn’t happen, at least not in a timely way. The WHO is one reason why - even at the end of January 2020 they recommended against countries taking measures like border closures. The US travel ban didn’t get implemented until February 2020, and it still had various exemptions and tens of thousands of travelers from Hubei continued to pour into the US. What really should have happened is that China should have voluntarily shut down all their international ports in mid-December 2019. Unfortunately even though China shut down some domestic flights in January 2020, they didn’t shut international flights until March 2020 (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/Whathappensif/how...), following a call between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
I don't know if they've disappeared -- maybe the numbers are diminished, but they still exist.

Take something like Tableau for instance. If you visit the Tableau forums, there's some really creative people who are constantly coming up with solutions for dashboard problems, anything from rewriting a SQL query to workarounds with Excel, just to get a dashboard to display the right way. Some of these solutions involve a deep understanding of how to manipulate data (windowing functions, pivots, date arithmetic etc.).

And at most big companies, you'll find Excel wizards who do wonderful (but cryptic) things with VBA macros. You'll find full mathematical models embedded as Excel VBA macros. Maintainability aside, you can do some pretty mind-bending things with VBA.

There are also the AutoHotkey users who automate GUI tasks by recording mouse/keystrokes and then tweaking them. We had more than a few of those in my last company (bigcorp).

If you look outside of the consumer macOS ecosystem, you'll find that power users are alive and well.
> transmission was from some third person not known to the contact tracers.

This becomes an unlikely explanation once

> > * A vast majority of infections can be traced

and

> > Especially when we have multiple circumstances like this.

The probability of an alternate explanation becomes exceptionally unlikely. It's further reduced by our general scientific understanding that:

> > But people who are sick shed live virus, and there's not a safe level of exposure of live virus where infection is impossible.

Infection from a momentary contact is fairly unlikely. But when you have a massive number of momentary contacts in the populace, it happening many times becomes a near certainty.

E.g., this:

> Several individuals in Australia were also infected with the Kappa variant through lingering virus aerosol particles in the hallway of a quarantine hotel in May. Though the individuals had no direct contact with each other they opened the doors to their hotel rooms within 30 minutes of each other and tested positive for the same strain.

No complete sequencing, but the same variant... spread several times apparently by the same mechanism of indirect contact, several individuals infected. In a quarantine hotel, where there's not many alternate explanations available.

Or this one, confirmed by sequencing:

> A similar event occurred earlier in April where two families quarantining in rooms next to one another were found to share the same viral sequence, after briefly opening their doors 30 minutes apart.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/06/28/inf...
Not really. You just didn't want everyone knowing you're having sex. Especially in small communities.
The plastic barriers that have become so common are an egregious example of this. They hurt air circulation and don't prevent transmission, but they're cheap and appear to do something. I've wondered why restaurants haven't started using some sort of fan attached to a high quality air filter, basically a cheap air purifier. And for more intensive usecases, why not have chambers that are sealed off and have a powered filter as the intake? I'm not the expert here so there's probably a good reason why, but it was a little weird seeing everybody focus on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic instead of filtration.
Take a bow. I was given this wisdom right on my first job and its the best advice I have ever received. Software is pretty useless without the business context so merely talking about software is not helpful.
> the local lodging industry absolutely hated competition since those 15+ person family reunion style groups were paying half as much on a VRBO...

It's not just the cost--the market has changed. Hotels are like cable companies or pre-iTunes record labels. People prefer renting a private, detached, house rather than a bunch of hotel rooms because it's a nicer experience having a shared space with your whole group away from strangers.

Families can dry their ski clothes by the fire while hanging out in a living room while grandma makes her famous gnocchi for dinner. Then they can go to bed at a reasonable hour. Meanwhile, a group of friends can get drunk in another rental until the sun rises. These two incompatible personas don't have to interfere with one another[0]

Okay, yes, there are hotels with cabins. These are still too close together and not big enough to accommodate what the market wants out of a vacation experience. It's the difference between five friends paying $4k for business class seats versus spending $20k to charter a private jet and splitting it.

[0] We're assuming the friends stay indoors and aren't a neighborhood nuisance--certainly not always the case, but sometimes people get drunk responsibly.
All that's proven is that statistical models are a good fit for something we don't really understand. No different than using epicycles to solve the problem of planetary motion.
> inspections rarely happen before an agreement is made in principle to buy

That depends on the market.
The really interesting stuff is the metallurgy necessary to have an oxidizer-rich pre-burner run the turbopumps without having the hot oxidizer burn through the engine. Western engineers thought it was pure fiction when they first heard about it.
They get new masks every few hours. Or they did before the pandemic anyway.
Well the very first step would be: native R support for installing specific package versions, and sharing that with others. There’s too many third party solutions that come and go over the years. And there’s no guarantee that what you select today will be understood, or work, tomorrow.
Do you live in a non tropical region?