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No real issues other than our own lack of experience with PyO3. I'd say the biggest gamble is spending the time to get it set up. Once we got it running, it was smooth sailing.

We're calling Rust from Python. Haven't tried it the other way around. Our use case was helped by the fact that we are just passing a String into Rust and letting Rust do all the heavy lifting. There's minimal back-and-forth.

I liked how PyO3 managed panics (they're just normal exceptions that can be caught on the Python side). I wasn't the one dealing with Maturin, but it seemed reasonable to get started with. I never enjoy introducing more tools into a build system, but this was relatively painless.

If I recall correctly, the bindings themselves are only like… thirty lines of code.
> * Don't always immediately updated to the newest version. If it's compromised, give the other users and the vendor time to find the vulnerability.

It always feels like advise that relies on not everyone following it is cheating just a bit.
Most people must have gotten it from CD-Action, which was THE monthly gaming magazine at the time. Each copy came with a DVD containing a few demos of upcoming games and 1-2 full games, most of them titles a few years old. Colobot made an appearance sometime in the mid-2000s.
> If a nurse injects the wrong medicine, they are gone.

Um...I don't work in healthcare, but my union includes some, and they definitely try to protect members who get in trouble irrespective of the circumstances.

There is a procedure for investigating someone who is accused of mistreating the vulnerable, that ends in putting people on a banned list, (if not prosecuted, etc) and the union has a guide to the minutiae of what someone under investigation is legally required to answer.

That's not the same as "injecting the wrong medicine", but wouldn't an honest mistake be considered less serious than neglect or abuse usually? I don't know, just guessing.

One thing that seems to be happening right now, is that nurses are being paid way less than market rates; there are ads for like $200+ per hour, but the regular employers don't match that.

I don't know if there is an analogy with police officers, but maybe they can do private security?
Importantly, if "Warren Buffet comes along and wants to spam our network" his bad actions would be tied to addresses that can be blacklisted.

You can't do that with PoW without "additional" consensus rules, which is that slippery slope to PoS!
Plagiarism: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/8ya8v4/sr71_spee...
Tarjan's proof of inverse* Ackermann bound is hard to understand; it's much easier to understand the proof of the log*(n) bound, which is also an extremely slow growing function: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/chap5....

where log* is the iterated log function; i.e. the number of times you have to apply log repeatedly until you reach a value of 1 or smaller. For reference, log_2*(10^10000) = 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_logarithm
It is definitely possible... it is also easy to end up with software synthesizers that use up large chunks of your available CPU power, or even synthesizers that require more CPU than you have available. It is also easy to end up with a beloved software synthesizer that stops working because you updated your computer's OS. I have sound modules from the 1980s that still work exactly as they did almost 40 years ago. I can't say that about software I used in the 1980s.

A lot of modern synthesizers or sound modules are basically just software running on CPUs, DSPs, or even FPGAs.
I used to be on call, and now I'm not anymore (but I changed jobs in between).

I'm not against being on-call but in my opinion if I get called tonight then tomorrow morning I want to be able to start a process that prevents the problem from happening again, and I want to be able to put EVERYTHING in discussion. I don't want to hear anything about development or operations, that thing must be root caused and it must whoever can implement a fix (either me, my team or the development team, either on our side or on customer side) must drop everything they're doing and implement a correction of error.

TL;DR:

If I can't fix stuff and prevent the problem from happening again then I don't want be on call.
How are infections measured in seconds?
Read their guidelines. They are purposely excluding any people's names. They wouldn't call it Trump virus or Biden disease or John Doe variant either.
I'm okay with command palettes, but hate how they steal ctrl/cmd + k. I use that in Firefox to focus the search bar.

If you implement such a shortcut, please make it configurable!
It's shutting out a tiny elderly subset for the benefit of all vs shutting down all for the benefit of a tiny elderly subset. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but your ethical concern should be 2 sided.
“To my knowledge, we have no evidence that any human virus has evolved to become less virulent (please furnish examples if I'm wrong!).”

Isn’t this what happened with the influenza strain that caused the Spanish Flu pandemic?
Add which terms to what without violating which constraints?
>Coalition of Communities of Colour

Jesus. Talk about inventing problems from problems.
Sure, but that's still a device.
To do math, I may literally visualize the numbers in my head, like an extra piece of paper I can manipulate numbers on, but it's not literal paper so it doesn't have to conform to annoying IRL properties like fixed transparency and permanent ink that can't be slid around.

It gets difficult to do more than simple calculus and algebra problems purely in my head, so I start offloading parts of my virtual workspace to a meatspace page.
I guess the Spanish flue probably did
Not just build internal models of the code, but also an internal model of the execution of the code. For example, a mental model of the scoping rules. As a developer you have to read a function and build a model of when variables are assigned values - you have to execute the code in your head to understand what the state will be at a particular point in time. I think a big part of complexity is having to imagine what the current in-flight state is - the larger the current in-flight state, the harder to reason about how the code will interact with it.
They are pretty transparent. You can read their guidelines here: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_...
I'm a teacher at a school.

- We eat outside.

- We have filters upgraded to MERV-13 and the fans run the entire school day.

- We have windows and doors open on all classrooms, except for A) a few that don't open outside, or B) when it's rainy/windy to the point it's not possible. We have small, secondary HEPA filters that we run in those circumstances. (Often, we're blaring AC or heat into a room with all doors and windows open just to get a few degrees closer to comfort).

- We mask indoors, too.

So far, no secondary cases attributable to spread at school. We've had frequent testing for much of the time, too, so they'd likely get detected. Now a lot of the student body is vaccinated, too, but this dates to before that.
They are OK. But "slow for low latency" is not really defined; for many low-latency cases, only static or at-startup allocation is permitted, thus not deque at all. If you might need to build for production with MSVC, definitely do not use the std::deque that comes with it.
The financial press is always better on this sort of thing because they are only really interested in the economic outcomes.
But I mean in English you do this exactly as shown

> You can give someone a phone number (12345) and then verify it by saying it differently (twelve, thirty four, five)

So how does it change?
What if I told you that most software complexity doesn’t come from the code but from the software requirements?
Ya, to me, ass covering is much more like trying to rewrite history after the fact, downplaying the virus, or maybe trying to hide statistics like nursing home deaths in your state.
I've found that my taps to upvote register as a downvote so I've taken to tapping a lot higher than the arrows appear.

Unrelated, but any Reddit thread with more than a handful of comments will reliably crash/reload/crash Safari/iOS for me. It's been quite effective as I usually leave the site and save myself time. Haven't been able to work out if it's common to others or something unique about my phone/setup.
I think their best would be educated guesses without actually seeing how it behaves in the wild. Though with them simply saying it's a VoC with a high number of mutations has led the media to catastrophise in their reporting.
One of the best features of OSX is that programs have menu bars. I didn't even know they had removed the menus from VS Code on other platforms. I still can't find anything in word, except on mac, where there is an actual menu.

Anyway, the removing of menus was not caused by the addition of command palettes. I think the history is that microsoft believed icons was easier than text, so they made the ribbons, and then for a while other removed menus in favor of ribbons, but then they realized ribbons sucks, so they removed those, and then there was nothing, maybe a hamburger menu if one of the UX's had done webdesign before.
> Even non-tonal languages have melodies, for example English people use a lot of intonation compared for to my native Polish. When I was in UK everybody sounded like they were talking to infants or dogs

It might just be more obvious since the English patterns are unfamiliar.

One of the more surreal experiences I've had was watching an English-language news broadcast in China. The presenter was speaking English and had obviously put in a lot of effort trying to learn what natural English sounded like. The general pattern of intonation over her sentences was quite realistic for English.

What made it surreal was that the intonation didn't match the words. Everything she said, it was like she was using the intonation pattern of some other sentence and applying it to a completely different sentence.
We don't know for sure, because a lot of people with and without symptoms got tested regularly.
>>Simplification also dumbs down, stunts the mind.

Citation needed?

Simplification is itself an act of intelligence. Removing complexity is difficult. Einstein, Feynman, Newton, and innumerable others are lauded for simplifying enormously complex ideas to the point of comprehension by the masses.

Oversimplifying is bad, because it implies lost information. Simplification itself is a form of sophisticated articulation.

More efficient representations of numbers are generally associated with better performance in math, historically. Roman numerals being a prime example of unnecessary complexity, compared to the maths being done by Indian people, and so on. Civilization tends to abandon conventions that are superseded in advantage.

Making things more difficult to formulate for structural reasons unrelated to the problem at hand is inefficient.

Having inefficient numbering in language is wasted energy at best.
You didn't have to. You wanted to. Lots of people wanted to. For no real reason other than to fit in or appease a mob. There's no "have to". You don't "have to" do much these days.

I'm not letting people's stupid actions be marked as a "have to" when they're most definitely still stupid and still neither required nor appropriate.

"I had to" rob the liquor store.
A gui combined with tooltips is one the easiest to learn interfaces. I have a very bad memory and GUIs show me what my options are. It's like typing a command with --help except it's always there
Why destroy it, when you can co-opt and control?

Spend $X billion, then just bleed everyone without power. Sort of like what we do now.
The article paints command palettes as a return to terminal inputs. However there are two massive differences. Firstly, the use of fuzzy search and natural language makes the commands discoverable. Secondly, there is a feedback mechanism that shows what the command will do before it's run. Together, these massively lower the learning curve.
Ah sorry, you're right. I wrongly added the weekends there. But you get the idea. It is still not much lower than US salaries. Note that also we are using the lowest hourly rate here with 650gbp.

Working as a consult comes with its own risks (not much worker rights, very little or no notice period when terminated etc). But those risks are not too bad when you consider how little worker rights one has in US.
It's well known it's more infectious, and widely suspected to be more deadly. See both https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-is-de... and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var...
I have not had that particular issue, but I have noticed another strange behaviour that I only see on Hacker News on iOS Safari.

If I navigate to the comments, then click the article, about 50% of the time, navigating back to the comments doesn’t work. It loads for a little while, but then just displays a static view of the linked article. If I hit back again, I’m on the HN homepage, then I can hit forward to return to the comments and all is fine again. It’s really bizarre.
Every macOS application has a command palette in the help menu: command-shift-/ will bring it up and you can incrementally search all the commands in the menus.
Lots of other fields have on calls or out of work expectations. That's part of the job, and you're compensated highly.

It's not like on call is a shock or something, it's not "whatever they throw at me", it's just... part of the job. My sister is a dentist, she has to be on call sometimes, it's not a shocker or something you don't know when you're signing up for the job.

You're implying that people aren't negotiating, but that's baseless. Software engineers are highly compensated because of these expectations, and we all negotiate accordingly.
Ignoring the touchscreen debate. I picked up a new Audi in September, they asked if they could just give me a single key for now. i was given the actual stick part of the second key but not the fob. Obviously shortage in chips for the fobs. I’m sure if I protested they would have found another somewhere (or if I was picking up a top model) but I was happy to help. Will probably get the second fob next year sometime.

They also told me they had to make a call to a customer that afternoon who had orders an A3 to a custom spec back in March 2021 to update her on the new delivery date… for March 2022. And that’s just an A3!
Also note that the low vaccination rate in SA is not due to a lack of vaccine availability.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-...
Not much of an achievement, tbh
> And it's not like the local government is gaining anything from slowing down the local economy and annoying its citizens

It’s a lot simpler than that. Weilding political power is psychologically addictive, perhaps even more so than recreational drugs. Like drugs, the user will always want to come back for another hit, and thus politicians will use every excuse and rationalization to continue to use emergency powers.
A while back the SR71 ops (flight?) manual was posted to HN...

There was a particular comment which I think was on like page 69 or so...

"Do not attempt any turns above 70,000 feet; drop to 70,000 feet first then do your turn with a turn radi of ~2miles....

Do not fly above 90,000 feet without prior authorization"

---

Or some-such... so the thing was known to fly over 90K feet - but you needed approval to do so...

Nine-teen SIXTY WHAT?
> Severe cases and hospitalizations lag infections by 2-3 weeks

The starting point in this case would be symptoms onset, surely? First samples were taken on November 14; the median time between the onset of symptoms and hospitalization is 5-10 days; patients have been followed since November 18 [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safrican-doctor-says-pa...
Note that I said "since the beginning".
I remember having trouble googling for examples of Nice and Clean code back when I was interested in those languages, because even adding "programming" and similar to the mix wasn't really helpful. but that was also a while ago, google has gotten better at contextual keywords since.
Are there any examples in the US of using lockdowns to make public protest illegal?
He’s also the only YouTuber I’ve ever bought something from. He does a great job of using the things he sells in videos to demonstrate their value and he’s not overly pushy about it like many other creators. He’ll simply mention that the tool he uses is one that is available for purchase from him, no different than mentioning the names of other tools he uses. It’s an ingenious and very effective sales pitch.
Being more severe and deadly is not necessarily a propagation disadvantage.
Because if you sick you stay at home and don't go out. If you are very sick, you need to go to the doctor, or the hospital. This can create more spread.
Whelp, my chance to shine. I had my turbinates surgically removed as part of sinus reconstruction. About a year after I got my face smashed really well.

Reading the surgery notes later I found out the surgeon gave me cocaine! This is apparently old fashioned but normal.

The biggest consequence is that in the nostril that isn't blocked by my bowed septum, I can stick my finger a lot further up.

Ask me anything!
This is the way everyone not responsible for creating it has always viewed the Office Ribbon UI. Most cursed creation in software.
The policy that enabled people to get raises through unemployment is long gone at this point though and has been for a while.
Japanese is like that too (probably got it from Chinese), with the added fun that it has two sets of numerals: the indigenous Japanese one and the borrowed Chinese one. So you not only need to memorize the counting word but also which kind of numeral to use.
That's a very interesting thought, but the one thing I think would be a problem is fake torrents with other parties bitcoin wallets embedded.

Also some bands don't want to operate on "donations" and want to set a price for the download. I wonder how that would work to be able to set a price.

Of course you could avoid this by only getting the torrent from the official band's website, but fakes would certainly be a problem.
Be sure to check back with us in 6 months, year at the most
A metaphor I was thinking of earlier.

If a guy is going to piss on you, you're going to be happy if he has to keep a pair of speedos on as he attempts it. You could also just move further away from him.

But if you're both swimming in the same pool while he pisses in it, those speedos will make little difference anymore. Neither will your distance from him help very much.

What will help much more is the amount of water in the pool, and the amount of fresh water being pumped in and old water pumped out.
I started with a journal, 5 minutes or so of practice every 2 to 10 days.

First three I spent with my eyes closed, boxed breathing and not thinking of anything. It is hard to engage your mind in something while it's thinking this and that. That has to stop first.

Then I'd try to localize a point. Move it around. A spot of my attention.

Then try to understand what it would feel for it to be red, or green.

Then I'd add a second point, and spread them apart or move them in closer together.

Then I'd make one larger, a spot. The other smaller, and move one around the other.

All of those are exercises for different days, and are progressively unlocked by succeeding at the previous exercise, not once but thoroughly.

Then you could try tracing letters, imagining yourself following the motion.

Putting letters together, one after the other.

Reading that backwards.

You should expect just that to take about 6 months of practice. Then it gets easier faster.
This is one of those tiny seemingly inconsequential things that keeps me hooked on Mac OS
Searching "About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home." provides a few online versions, in addition to the original from Archive.org

Previous HN discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=In+the+Beginning+Was+the+Command+L...
Maneuvering a regular (stern) driven boat without a bow screw at low speeds is super hard. There is this 10 year old kid at a marina near where I live that handles all of the rental boats, I've seen them do this in absolutely impossible situations with a grace and skill that really blows my mind, it's like the boat is on rails and does exactly what they want it to do. Even the box shaped 'party boats', and those are really next to impossible to move around in predictable ways.
Fauci told 60 Minutes on March 8th, 2020:

> “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask...
Maybe not, but its quality can tank so low that nobody recommends it anymore, which has long since happened.
I do get
tired of reading code that isn
't formatted in
a
clear way because the autoformatter is
a slave to the column limit and
especially in the case of 1. lists
2. instructions. 3. Other things that
should line up--is overzealous
in breaking up lines and making the
code as unreadable as possible.
In Australia earlier this year when infections were happening the rate of single-digits per day, they could trace the source of an infection to a fleeting encounter of two people walking past each other in a shop.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/covid19-cctv-footage-...
These paradigms can be complementary. Menus and toolbars for when the user is browsing and they don't know what they want, command bars for when the user knows what they want but not how to get there, and shortcut keys for when they know what they want and how to get there.
This is a great observation. In the end, the goal of a terminal usable by people and machines was folly. Machines can use the shell, humans can use the command prompt.
It could be non-allergic rhinitis like in my case. USC head of sleep surgery recommended I try the “Afrin test” which is trying Afrin for a night or two (avoid more to prevent rebound effect). Lying down can engorge nasal passages. Try elevating head via pillows or bed elevation. Use humidifier and take large dose vitamin D. Mouth tape and sleep on your side
> Mandatory arbitration is mandatory in the sense that it takes the normal justice system away

No, it is mandatory in the sense that parties will be obliged by the normal justice system to submit to the specified process and will be held bound by the results by the normal justice system (with narrow exceptions.)

> if as the parent posits the normal justice system does not exist then everything becomes "Mandatory arbitration", right?

No, if the normal justice system does not exist, there is nothing holding anyone to a particular pre-specified arbitration process or enforcing the results of that process.
> the answer i got from UX people is that "you can't hover or have tooltips on mobile". they are trying to achieve uniformity between mobile and desktop.

Achieving uniformity by reducing the user experience to the platforms' lowest common denominator. Not the best solution!
Chose carefully - fast or accurate.
The same thing happens with e.g. Fauci's mask remarks from March of 2020. Somehow people pretend like that was the fatal communication sin of the whole pandemic and the reason there's little trust in the medical community and they ignore the months and months of downplaying the virus and just an endless stream of disinformation from literally everyone else in the administration in service of trying to get reelected.