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I don't know about you, but I think I'm capable of polite conversation with someone whom I believe to be talking nonsense; or being friendly in discussing something I think is no good.

(In fact, maybe I'm willing to offer an example.. :/ - https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV/pull/372#pullrequestr... - could have been better perhaps, but I don't think it's too off-putting if the author has a legitimate change they want in, and surely they'd see the problem, I don't think it looks like gate-keeping pedantry? (NB the repo was unmaintained, I was recently added as a collaborator, so older issues/PRs with no maintainer response aren't a counter-example, I'm just in the process of sorting through them.))

The author of that comment was talking to us about low quality PRs, not a specific one, to an author of one, nor in feedback comments on one.
Usually the neutrino will interact with a nucleus and what happens is the reverse of a beta decay, i.e. either a proton will be changed into a neutron or a neutron into a proton, with the emission of an electron or a positron.

So one atom will be converted into an atom of another element, which is a neighbor to it in the periodic table.

Because one neutral lepton goes in and one charged lepton goes out, you might say that the neutrino snatches an electric charge from a nucleus, transmuting it into the nucleus of another element. However this interaction happens extremely seldom. In most cases the neutrino passes by without any effects.

Nevertheless, there has been a proposal to generate extremely powerful neutrino beams, with which to destroy any hidden nuclear weapons.
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We don't know. But the early data looks concerning enough to warrant attention and closer examination.

The early data is always not very reliable, there are some big effects that can skew the data and you don't have many data points yet at that point. There is also no lab work done yet, where you'd directly examine the properties of a variant.

This very well could be worse than delta, but it also might not be. It looks more concerning than any variant we've seen since Delta, but we simply don't have hard data that early.
> It's easy to agree that the Prussian state educational philosophy was focused on building good citizens for a nation state embroiled in near continuous war, or threatened by hovering on the horizon storm clouds of the next war.

Well, yes, since it is factually true.

> But you can use a Prussian system to deliver results according to American ideals

Well, yes, since actual American educational ideals, especially of the ruling class, involve a very similar concept of a “good citizen” to that of the Prussian model, and not even Prussia of the time the model was invented was as continuously engaged in war for as long as the US has been.
Gotta say, while I'm not surprised, and it's probably st least partially response bias, it looks like HN has really got its turkey roasting game figured out.
Yes, I explained this above:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29350612

This is less of an issue of Chrome being slow and more about measuring different things across the two browsers because of how the micro benchmark is structured.
>Also shows that when the USA prevented people in nursing homes from even going outside (to get sun exposure) it was the worse thing they could have done.

Is this something you feel is supported by the article or is this your own synthesis? And if it's the latter what sources led you to that conclusion?
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There are still some hidden gem features of search that are still there, like prefixing your search terms with site:example.com, or sometimes even better: -site:example.com .
They say 450, but they don't say the duration, so a lame joke would be that the turkey is never dry because they never eat it, you just put another turkey on top of the remains of whatever you've been cooking since last year.
Maybe link to a page instead of directly to the .apk file??
Got a pair of fresh turkeys from a nearby farm, brined in advance, put them in the smoker. Delicious juicy turkey, not at all like the typical dry turkey I had while growing up.
The association between Vitamin D deficiency (VDD as referred to in this article) and increased risk of respiratory infections is well-known. Mild to moderate Vitamin D supplementation, especially during winter or in those with subpar dietary habits, is a good idea.

However, I've noticed that Vitamin D has been garnered an almost cult-like following on parts of the internet in recent years. Some of the health claims around Vitamin D are getting out of control, and the recommendations for Vitamin D supplementation are far too high in certain circles.

I have to admit that I fell for this to some degree. I started supplementing 5000 IU/day after reading all of the writings about Vitamin D deficiency, the health benefits of Vitamin D, and the arguments that current Vitamin D supplementation recommendations were far too low.

But that 5000 IU/day put me near overdose territory when I got my serum levels checked. Even my doctor, who is very pro-Vitamin D supplementation, warned me to significantly cut my supplementation.

The scary part is that I see recommendations for significantly higher Vitamin D dosing all over Twitter and health forums lately. There's a growing idea that more is better, amplified by health influencers trying to stand out from the crowd and the growing cult-like status of Vitamin D as a wonder vitamin.

I think encouraging mild vitamin d supplementation (or improved dietary patterns with more Vitamin D) is a good step in the right direction, but I'm also worried to see how much of this is being exaggerated and taken to unhealthy extremes.

When in doubt, get a blood test.
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Taking something from someone else is wrong. Doing it for the good of others doesn't correct this theft. The degree that this happens in a society represents the level to which civilisation is broken and corrupted.

Open source examples aren't communism, there's no threat of force. It relies on decentralized collaboration and natural willingness to create and share. There's a solid legal framework in place that promotes use, improvement and extension with low cost to all parties.
Yes, that sounds like it is going to be completely constructive and straightforward discussion.
And you are only referencing the linked (now somewhat old) study. Other newer studies have already proven the link.
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A good burr grinder is all about consistent grind size and is very easy to observe.

Spread a small amount of ground coffee out on a piece of paper. Observe the varying sizes and shapes within the grounds. Better grinders produce more even grinds which produce more even extraction during brewing.

It’s an exceedingly simple concept. As an extreme example try and brew an espresso using a simple blade style ‘grinder’. It will be impossible. The refinement of a good grinder is simply optimizing along this axis.
You seem to have confused charter schools with public schools. In most districts, public charter schools are open to all students regardless of size or intelligence.
I genuinely don't understand how you're not making that logical connection here. It seems you're looking for some document where Mann says, "Look at me, I'm specifically basing my views on the Prussian system rather than the Prussian education values". This is absurd.
"Head in the sand" happy-clappy, willful ignorance won't help either. This underestimates and patronizes subsequent generations. Greta Thunberg is just one example of transcending hopelessness and not falling into learned helplessness. It is a climate change emergency and existential threat that must be deal with honestly without sensationalizing or minimizing because world leaders and the billionaires are killing the species long-term with apathy, greed, and delay.

What's needed is action now. Specifically, not "Mission Accomplished" ostensible, piece-meal virtue-signaling planting a tree, divestment, or changing fuels. Large-scale, oceanic bio-CSS is one of the primary technologies that must be deployed at a minimum rate of several trillion USD per year.

Only drastic carbon negative civilization will work for the foreseeable future, and CCS is the only way to get there because carbon, lifestyle, and economic austerity sure won't work.
Demos look very cool. Not including inverse Q's and hearts, not that retro apparently (probably a good thing.)
Made me think of this post (2008) by James Hague: 'Slumming with BASIC Programmers' https://prog21.dadgum.com/21.html
There is no C/C++ programming language -- they are related but distinct languages. For C++ there is "C++ Programming Language, 4th edition" by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, but his "Tour of C++" and books by other authors are more suitable as an introduction.
Parents are already paying a lot for improved education by moving to districts with decent public schools. They have to pay inflated housing prices because lots of parents want to move there to get their kids a decent education, and then they have to pay property taxes that go toward funding schools there.

Lots of parents would be happy to stay where they are and pay the cost of private education if it were available.

> magically get cheaper the moment you bring the "free market" into the discussion.

Capitalism isn't magic. It's incentives. Right now if a school is doing poorly there is almost zero incentive to change, because parents aren't legally allowed to send there kids to a different school out-of-district.
Well. Maybe people exposed to sunlight are on holiday, and therefore less stressed and having a better lifestyle.

Remember “half of Italy” died in the beginning. Plent of vitamin d there
> Some of the trust-busting policymakers’ discussions about tech products are painful to listen to,

Because they are wrong.

> but but also high switching costs that create the conditions of a monopoly, without meeting the technical definition.

Because they are not monopolies.

If there is a problem, they should address that rather than trying to distort what is happening, otherwise they will simply make bad policies because they are being dishonest.
I agree in the short term, but in the long term, sun exposure is a skin cancer risk.
Honestly - I like the Mokapot my dad uses it religiously - but reading this comment thread makes it sounds like Mokapot is getting its lunch eaten by more wasteful products (and it is) but I wager it is that they aren't in the same product category even though they are all under the coffee umbrella. Also its in a highly differentiated/competitive marketplace over the last 15 years where before that (in its glory days) there wasn't much competition to stack up against.

However the reason it is getting its lunch eaten is that people prioritize convenience and the Mokapot is a different product category although under the coffee vertical. A Mokapot takes bit of education and a bit of time in the morning to dial it in. The general coffee consumption market is not interested / technically savy to do this. It's losing because its a more complicated and higher quality product --> different consumers. I don't think those junky nespresso buyers would even be in the mokapot category to begin with. Its similar to how lyft/uber brought more people into riding cabs (also took cab market share).
I think the US missed a huge opportunity to pick the turkey as the national bird (I'm not saying anything about Franklin) and to consume turkey more than chicken. Turkey is royalty among poultry.
Since turkey is only eaten once a year we deep fry it to a delicious golden brown.
I don't mean any disrespect by asking this, but asking why this was done in C++ implies you believe some other option would have been better; or at least it gives me that impression. What language should this have been done in, in your opinion?
Sure, but it would rule out that Vitamin D is harmful wrt. COVID-19, right?

And you could look at the subset of data where people have a high vitamin D level due to supplements. If there is still a relationship there, then the argument for a causal relationship would be stronger.
it's very early in terms of the data that's out there, but so far it looks quite bad.

the ELI5 is that it's expanding really fast, and it is probably at least somewhat resistant to our immune system's first line of defenses that are formed from vaccination or a prior infection. the details on all of those points are very much in flux still, so be aware that the story could change as we learn more.

in more detail:

the biggest piece of worrying evidence is that it's growing as a proportion of cases in south africa at such an intensely fast rate that it's outcompeting the delta variant as though it isn't even there, which means it's far more transmissible than any other variant.

as far as i know, there isn't any information on whether it has higher lethality compared to delta, but my hunch is that it does.

the reason why i think it will end up having increased lethality is that it appears to have a complex of mutations that are associated with resistance to antibodies, likely including those generated by vaccination. that will make it take longer for the immune system to form an effective response to infection, allowing the virus to replicate rampantly and cause organ damage for longer.

keep in mind every other variant has also exhibited this property at least to a small amount, and in most cases, regardless of vaccination, our bodies are still able to clear the infection.

the issue is that this time around, the variant doesn't have just one or two tropisms associated with lower antibody binding efficiency, but perhaps a couple dozen. so, it'll likely be more effective at reinfecting people who have already had covid, too. and even though the variant may be "vaccine resistant", i'd bet that vaccinated people will still fare better than unvaccinated people. unfortunately, our antibody therapies probably won't be as helpful at saving people who are hospitalized.

but, our antiviral therapies (including those still in development) shouldn't be any less effective against this variant, which is a very faint silver lining.

in conclusion: buckle up, we're probably in for a rough ride.
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My 2 cents:

- Al is a known neurotoxin

- Al does not, typically, rust, despite being far more thermodynamically favorable than Fe because a kinetic barrier, AlO2, forms stopping further oxidation

- AlO2 is an extremely durable coating. Extremely inert. It's crystal lattice constant is similar to Al's to it does not flake

- Al does rust in salty environments.

Conclusion:

The moka is fine. Just don't use vinegar or salt water to brew your coffee.
I highly doubt they will consider them vaxxed if they die. These stats do not get recorded, Oh they had the second jab over half a year ago? not vaxxed, jab up sheep
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If we consider that most people are possibly deficient in Vitamin D, then it’s not surprising to see. That really doesn’t tell us anything. Or do I misunderstand?

Also by curiosity, are there any conclusive evidences that supplementing Vitamin D is beneficial for anything? I’m taking it as recommended by my doctor but I’m wondering.
I had one of these blow up. There was a loud pop and then literally coffee grounds all over the ceiling and cupboards.
I think a lot of people on HN are "process-oriented" and
"experimentation-favorable". Even though I was a cook in high school, I didn't really gain much skill until I found Alton Brown's books and then moved on to Harold McGee. Thinking about cooking as chemistry and physics transformed how I cook.
Hi, answer this question yourself, I can write here some of my failures, lost dreams, misunderstandings,.... But the important thing is to make the journey.

Imagine if we could give you the magic recipe, it won't taste good to you.

My father always told me, I could find the perfect woman for you, smart, beautiful and funny, but you wouldn't like her, you had to find her. Same here.
> mostly due to the fact that the product they built were long lasting

I reckon the real problem is that the Chinese can now produce equivalent wares at remarkably lower prices (because hey, almost-slave labor is cheap), and the competition from actual-espresso makers (Nespresso) is now intense (because, again, they can produce in Asia and hence sell at low prices).

There is always demand for new kitchenware, as people grow and move out of their parents' house. But that demand is typically for cheap kitchenware, which you cannot make in "old countries" anymore without being destroyed on price by hungry upstarts.
Yes and no.

The CDC offers a heavy paper card for recording vaccination status. This is the source of truth, as far as I can figure.

Larger medical providers also offer records in digital format that can be loaded into Apple Wallet (and similar) and generate a QR code for ease of use.
This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers, which is to consume data from a topic and do something with it.

One of those things being “store it in a relational model” or “write a sum to a key value store” or something else.

This ability comes for free with Kafka, but is very not-free when using a relational model.
The problems are not directly transferable though, Higher Ed there is no pricing controls at all since it is debt funded backed by government with almost unlimited amounts of funding, this is what has cases the explosion in costs

You will not, and can not see that with local schools because the majority of them comes directly from local taxation which can not simply print more money to fund their largess like the federal government does.

Local tax programs MUST be revenue neutral for the most part, baring limited issue bonds for specific things like building a new building

This will limit the amount of backpack funding that would travel with the student.

Personally I would not only want to open the backpack funding to charter schools but also allow parents to use that money for Home Schooling curriculum, programs, or creating School "Pods" like we saw during the schools closures where parents pool resources to hire tutors for their kids

I think we need massive innovation in schooling, including things like Homeschooling, schooling pods, MOOC's, and charter schools
I will explain my case why I care about that. Broadly speaking, there are two categories I shop for :

- Essentials: Things that are necessary to get irrespective of price variation at that moment.

- Luxury: This category could have something which might improve quality of life or something I might have fancied after seeing some marketing about it or reading some reviews about it.

It is for the Luxury category I care about the best price. These things I might not need immediately but investing in them at best price might improve my quality of life with not hitting my pocket hard.

My recent such shopping was getting an Apple Watch for my wife as a birthday present (still a surprise for her). To get that I found that I evaluated that I do not need to pay for Apple Watch 6 or 7 but an SE version would be a good one at cheaper price with all valuable features needed. Now there was a deal which allowed me get the watch for 391 SGD which is 460 SGD even with a Black Friday sale today. I think it was a good bargain and over a period these bargains might add to good saving.
Oh yes, and with a strong jet!
That's not quite true, as the USSR was heavily involved in the planning discussions for the UN. It was from the very beginning an attempt to codify the winning alliance of WW2 into a more permanent structure to create world stability.

Stalin balked at the last moment, and was convinced by FDR to join because it was believed that if the USSR wasn't part of the UN it was doomed to fail just as the League of Nations had before it. It was better to have the world's major powers be committed into and part of it, rather than outside, even if that meant having less freedom of action to pursue interventions as the UN.

It was a conscious decision to make the world more stable.
I've found Rust programmers to be eminently pragmatic. The economics of bugs have been clear for decades: it is orders of magnitude more expensive to find and fix bugs after they've been shipped.
This is the way. Need a large oven pan however as the bird is much wider when spatchcocked.
So if we could force neutrino interactions at scale we could make any element we want in large quantities?
"Async-await is nice, which is why we’re adding it to Dart. It makes it a lot easier to write asynchronous code. You know a “but” is coming. It is. But… you still have divided the world in two. Those async functions are easier to write, but they’re still async functions.

"You’ve still got two colors. Async-await solves annoying rule #4: they make red functions not much worse to call than blue ones. But all of the other rules are still there: ..."

You can continue the story at:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
This analogy is as thin and trivial as it is disappointing. Those concepts could have and have been easily understandably explained in a single paragraph. Don't even see the appeal. This analogy is not providing any new or interesting insights whatsoever.
Maintainer attitudes like this are major contributors to maintainer burnout. A look through the linked PR is about 50/50 solid technical criticism and nitpicky bikeshedding.

The Rust community seems toxic, in the Wikipedian way of being unwelcoming and unfriendly without ever dropping into incivility.
Gasoline prices have little impact on demand. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=19191

For this reason alone Carbon taxes do not work. In my jurisdiction, we already have over 100% tax on gasoline. Partly for road building purposes, but still obviously not impacting usage.

Hybrids coming around ~2000 certainly had a visible effect but it wasn't enough. Which is why Rivian, a company which has delivered no cars, is worth 97 billion. Tesla is worth a trillion. Whereas Ford is only worth $78 billion. We must get to EV transportation asap. We must electrify our railroads. We must electrify our planes.

In fact, carbon taxes are bad. Very bad right now. Because prices are inelastic it makes the tax regressive and anti-compounding.

So gasoline prices go up. Trucking immediately is more expensive. Products prices go up. But because product prices are higher, inflation etc. trucking gets more expensive. Alberta recently had a carbon tax and allowed this circle to run for some time. An interesting thing happened. The prices didn't go higher. This is a problem. The price available to oil value crashed instead. So while WTI was about $50/barrel. WCS from Alberta went to $5/barrel. The albertan oil industry couldn't sell their oil. The trucks weren't running. Alberta repealed their carbon tax which nearly immediately fixed the problem. Their economy was basically halted. No trucks running means people will soon stop eating.

Imagine 10 years from now. We have maybe 30% of vehicles gone EV. Who owns those? The rich. The rich no longer pay the 100% tax for building roads. Who is paying for the road tax and carbon tax? the poor buggers driving the 15 year old shitmobile. The poor end up paying and the rich dont? Pretty regressive.
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