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I approve of constitutionally guaranteeing that people can keep their communications secure, but as an American, I think the rhetorical framework surrounding the movement could be improved. We need negative rights, not positive ones.

People don't have a right to encryption, or a right to a specific computing environment, or really, a right to anything at all. What people do have is a right to be free of government limitations on the freedom of individuals to run whatever software they want on devices they own.

When you make something a positive right, that means it's something the government has to give you, and a government that can give you rights can take them away.

The American perspective is that people have rights just by virtue of existing, and the state can only illegally and immorality interfere with rights that you always possess, unconditionally, no matter what.

IMHO, the right framing isn't that people have a right to encryption, but that the state has no business interfering with the math people do on their own computers.
I did. Multiple cards, multiple times. And got rejected each time. My actual debit card worked fine.

The prior Privacy cards worked fine; that's what I had entered beforehand. It's just the new ones I reissued on Privacy that aren't being accepted.
Ask HN: Markets in which you aren't reliant on others' opinons to make money?
As per the title I'd like to discuss which type of markets reward the analysis of an underlying asset/event.

Meaning that there is a date of resolution and you don't have to watch out because "the market can stay irrational more than you can stay solvent"

What I came up with is sports betting on events happening within one month, betting on weather events as verified by NOAA weather stations (etc. rain, snow, wind, temperature).

Especially for sports betting, it's peculiar because in this case having consensus move against you is desirable as long as you guess the correct outcome at resolution, that's because bookmakers look at the flux of incoming bets to adjust the handicaps, plus you don't risk any margin call.
Well that sure makes up for being forcefully vaccinated, quite a tit for tat.
What good is being opposed to both of those things if there is no way to implement a situation without at least one of them? The single public sector monopoly on violence is the least bad alternative, because if it were to vanish the vacuum it leaves would quickly and inevitably be filled by the first strongmen who can raise an army via whatever means at their disposal. And that would be far worse than the single public sector overlord.
Are you not allowed to return to your office at all? At our company the offices are open but no one is required to return.
Same experience.

You have the younger crowd who live with parents, have their own room in a apartment somewhere. Happy to jump on work and then jump instantly to discord and whatever. Like my friend below my apartment.

Then you have the older crowd who have their own house, Kids, family pet or two. Have a spare room they can turn in to an office.

And then theres me, a 32 year old who has a single bedroom apartment who likes separation from work and personal. Having my work laptop at home has been stressful because its always felt like I am at work. Having to use my personal space for work doesn't bode well.

Luckly, my office is open and I can now go in everyday. Even when I am the only one in the office I feel more productive then being at home. WFH isn't for me.
I love blender and how extensible it is! beautiful work. also love your channel name! :)
Father of five, and husband of teacher here. Math is a problem for middle school teachers because they often don't understand algebra, trigonometry, calculus or geometry well enough to teach it. When you add to that common core style arithmetic where parents and family can't help (because they do not understand how to do common core-style math), teachers are struggling to even teach math at all.

Additionally, many professions pay better than being a teacher, and unfortunately, that includes package handling for FedEx and UPS (just drove by a sign promising $24/hour starting) in some areas.
> Does mediawiki have calculated tables, tags, executable source blocks though?

Mediawiki has categories which are like tags, if I understand what you are asking. I'm fairly sure it can do calculated tables in principle, though I don't know of anyone using them. Basically you can connect table cells and other elements to browser javascript, like Org tables are connected to Emacs Lisp. It's very common in Wikipedia tables to implement sort-on-click. E.g., for a table of countries with populations, you can click on the country name header to sort alphabetically or reverse alphabetically, or on the population header to sort by increasing or decreasing. The sorting is done in the browser so it is near instant, no page reload or anything like that. I haven't seen that done in Org.

Org isn't so great for plaintext use either. I don't know how you'd even do bold and italic. What messes it up for me is usually long url's that are collapsed inside brackets to make inline links. In unrendered form, the lines are unreadably long without annoying horizontal scrolling.

Mediawiki's killer feature of course is in-browser multi-user editing with built-in version control. I do that with Org using emacs and git, but that is far nerdier.
Thanks. The new emphasis on stats and probability is so important and is something I wish I’d had before taking my first university stats courses. There’s probably no branch of math more important to everyday life and maintaining an educated discourse in society.
Absolutely. Some people are gifted. Not everybody is, otherwise it wouldn't be called that. They are better than other people at certain things. It may be math, it may be athletic ability, it may be music or another artistic talent. We should be nurturing and developing individuals in what they are naturally best at, as that tends to also be what they like to do and probably leads to happier and more successful lives.
There is hope for America yet:

>
Michael Bloomberg: Why I’m Backing Charter Schools

> The public school system is failing. My philanthropy will give $750 million to a proven alternative.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-bloomberg-why-im-backin...
Moebius Noodles looks fantastic. Would you happen to have any other resources you'd recommend for DIY home instruction for early childhood learners?
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I think at this point it's pretty obvious that Big Tech wants the pandemic economy to last forever.
Given that price tag, what would be the political backlash against NASA if the JWST fails? Would that be enough to cancel other projects for good?
Ask HN: How to Live Alone
I have tried to live alone on many instances ranging from 1 to 4 months. But each time anxiety have grappled me from the neck.

It's simply not possible for me to live without constant human interaction.

Now, I want to know if that's possible at all in a healthy way? If so please share your wisdom.
Given that the US actively engages in military operations in defense of Israel, I would say that it not reasonable to attribute a larger share of the spending to Germany rather than Israel?
Zero downtime schema changes with Postgres
Yes, I am.

I have a primary care doctor whose portal has the sort of thing you're referring to. That's different.
The article doesn't say if they were personal or work provided phones. Many people living/working overseas have work and personal phones. Also, almost all of those with personal phones get a local SIM, so they'd get a local non-US (not +1) phone number. I used to be an IT admin with DOS overseas. Updates were enforced, and phones were disabled if they were not upgraded to the most recent version. Starting in about 2019, mobile device security went into overdrive and is very serious now. Additionally, the MDM profiles are quite limiting, so this pushed most people to get personal phones. A huge pain for records retention.
The tumbling in this video is a good demonstration of the angular momentum problem. The projectile has a carp ton of angular momentum after release, and there's no system in place to fix that. Maybe you could cancel it using the atmo and aerodynamics except that would probably melt the fins.

And angular momentum is just one of the challenges that appear to be unsolvable. When you hit orbital height, your velocity is in the wrong direction. How do you add enough horizontal velocity? How do you construct a rocket engine that can survive the forces involved in initial launch? How do you prevent the bearings from melting? How do you construct a launch chamber which survives the explosive compression when the projectile penetrates the vacuum barrier into the atmo?

And all with a Theranos-level of founder knowledge.
My testing lines up with Kenji's: https://www.seriouseats.com/is-aging-holiday-eggnog-worth-it

1 month is worth it, 3 months is great, after that I don't necessarily find it's worth it. That said, I have one last pint jar of November 2019 sitting in the fridge that I need to open soon and test....
Same here, collaborating with remote workers doesn't establish a solid human connection.

And without that it's just not the same thing, to a degree that doesn't make it worthwhile for me personally.

So it's a solid no to working with remote workers if it can be avoided.
It is similar. However, where omdoc seems to focus on storing math concepts in a precise way, it’s focus doesn’t appear to be on easily hand writing concepts in that format.

MathLingua, on the other hand, focuses on being precise and easy to read and write in its raw form.
They're not disjoint. At an advanced level, subjects like linguistics and psychology heavily cross displines with mathematics, logic, and neuroscience at least.

Students probably shouldn't be falling hard on one side or the other any earlier than they already do lest even more of them believe they are completely unrelated.
We don't need more trade schools though. Over here on hacker news many of us have day jobs eliminating those jobs. While we won't succeed (and trades are still a better job than many artistic degrees) there are a lot of kids going into them. Most trades are also taught on the job. Want to be a carpenter - you can start tomorrow morning at 7am in any large city. From there you can branch out if you want.
the only solution appear to be a reverse standing desk. you get one of those reclinable planks to hang yourself upside down at an incline and have gravity fix your posture
Please don't mistake yourself for dang
I'll see your "are you sure?" and raise you one. :) Are you sure that vi/vim have many people who use them and that those tools are "world wide famous" because of such superficial reasons? Isn't it possible (and far more likely) that there is some substance to their reasons?

Use whatever tool works best for you. I use vim because it is far and away the most efficient way to edit text - especially code. Anytime I have to use something else it's amazing how sluggish and tedious it feels to do the most basic operations - it feels a lot like trying to run in knee-deep water. I've extensively used many (most?) of the major editors on the planet (including many obscure ones) over several decades. I had to be forced to use vim at first because it seemed so terrible. Believe me, it's not my editor of choice because of some randos at Google, haha.
I’m not seeing any virtue signaling.
Don't blame the kids for "normalizing" what their parents did. I couldn't have changed the choices my mother made, obviously not when I was still an infant but really even much later. As you say, parents are unique individuals living their own lives. If their choices eventually lead to them being unable to look after themselves, what are the children to do? Let them starve or freeze to death on the street?

Like it or not, we all do have a responsibility to look after those who can't look after themselves, even if they're not related but even more so if they spent years of their own lives looking after us. There seem to be people here who would prioritize getting the latest greatest 4K OLED monitor over ensuring their own parents' welfare, and that's literally monstrous (look it up).
I'm not sure why that's a problem for using vim, as if the only reason people use vim is to avoid using the mouse.
I'm excited about the new code formatting abilities. In particular, I haven't yet found a good way to "format on save" changes in .heex templates, and hopefully this will change that!
Google BBR congestion control algorithm
Everyone knows already nothing will happen, they will get slap on the wrist as usual and show goes on.
I would agree that proofs as introduced in high school Geometry have more in common with formal axiomatic logic than the vast majority of "real-world" mathematical proofs; but a large part of that is just clumsy notation.

The fundamental concepts

1. We have axioms which are things we accept without proof because we all agree that they're obvious;

2. Everything else should follow logically from things which come earlier;

3. Don't skip steps!

are extremely important and apply regardless of the field you're in.
So go to the bar and do this? What does this have to do with the office?
Thought you meant the python linter, was already crafting an argument for it before I read your article lol
Is it a right to End-to-end encryption or a right to "encryption from everyone except government" ?
Once you get to senior you can coast forever and no one will bother you as long as you're meeting expectations, which gets easier and easier once you know the company culture. Anyone with 5+ years of industry experience or 2+ years at Google can figure out how to coast on 30 hours a week if they want. There's 100,000 employees, no one notices. Ads is a seemingly endless firehose of revenue so the bottom line is never threatened by your laziness.
A digression.

It seems at least plausible that more person-months have now been lived by people who've been vaccinated using Biontech/Pfizer and AZ vaccines than by people who've recovered from the disease. If so, then one might say that the riskier option viewed purely in terms of long-term experience is natural immunity.
>Are you saying they should only be available to you upon request?

No.
There was, and still is, one reason that I had discovered by chance and by observation, that enables me to read original, classical works.

That is- "dilution by lesser minds."

Once in 10th grade, I read up a poem on my curriculum in advance before the teacher taught it. I explained it to myself, it made sense and I found it interesting.

Then the teacher explained it, and ai realized that, the teacher doesn't really get the poem. He cannot fully grasp all dimensions of it. And he explained it in a much lesser way.

(I have had much better teachers who taught me how to understand poetry in the first place.)

That day was just the beginning.

From then on, I always read the originals- it translates to reading the claasical works by Plato, Ariatotle, reading old poetry, and reading religious scriptures, and reading the original scientific papers rather than the coverage by popular media.

Lesser men dilute things. All things.

They cannot fully grasp the entirety of a work, and explain only the part and up to the extent that they understood.

This limitation also applies to me, but I get much more out than other people can.

This is very limiting for me, and leaves me to desire much more.

I learn so much better- both qualitatively and quantitively when I read original sources rather than rely on other people's explanation, or the common understanding available.

Yes, I am upping it to say that entire societies have gotten many things wrong when it comes to understanding and "getting" stuff created by great people.

(There are people who actually gets stuff, but many keep it to themselves and don't correct others.)

Sounds like it comes from a place with unhealthy amount of hubris? May be that is true, but what I say is extremely true.
I will change the text.

I have built many many HTML sites, but not many in a team context, so it's true that I lack relevant experience.

In my own experience, what ends up happening is that there are lots of situations where there's double content — on desktop show this block, on mobile show this other block.

But that's not the same as a whole duplicate website.
Also doubting the civilian use, but in the previous discussion somebody commented[0] that the main purpose might be military:

> For military applications on the other hand, it's close to perfect. You don't need orbital insertion, you can accelerate your payload silently without allowing for detection in the early phase of the attack, your projectile starts at essentially cruise speed and can only be detected by infrared emissions due to atmospheric heating for a few seconds until the launch ablative heatshields are ejected. It's a fantastic first strike weapon.

I don't know if this is a more likely application, but we should at least consider that we don't know the whole story, for better or worse. It might very well be a military startup that tries to give itself some SpaceX marketing-sheen.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209456
>"Learning is not just a matter of gaining new knowledge—it is also about a change in identity. As teachers introduce mathematics to students, they are helping them shape their identity as people"

I don't get it... what about this is so scary to you? Is it the word 'identity'? Because as a standalone statement, I actually think this is a healthy approach to education.

I get that "social justice" and apparently now "justice" are loaded terms in our modern political discourse, but countering racialized ideas and framing education as a part of our identity as people/citizens... I mean, that hardly seems like objectionable to me.
If we were to abandon a policy after the first objection we can raise over some disagreement we have with the policy, then all policies would be rejected. This is not an intelligent way to evaluate it.

It's not whether gifted students exist - it's the extent they should be catered to. Society benefits more when you raise the average than when you foster the top 0.1%. Even Soviet mathematicians who moved to and taught in the US after the fall of the Soviet Union said something to the effect of "sucks for talented folks, but better for society" when they compared it to Soviet education.

With that context, whether they exist or not is really a rounding error. Most gifted students will do well eventually whether we have special programs for them or not. And it's challenging to show strong net positives for society if you did have those programs. As in, actual data that supports having them, vs mere anecdotes.
Staying in the same job for too long, I felt comfortable and had lots of control over what I did but no job is forever and eventually it will end so be ready for it.

My skills atrophied so it was very hard to get a new job once I had to look for one.

Tech moves fast so you need to keep up to stay competitive or work your way up the career ladder. The best way is to look for a new job. If you're lucky you can do it within the same company.

Side note: I believed that by focusing on my tech skills, I would be promoted. Big mistake, tech skills are a small part. You need leadership and relationship skills which are a huge part of getting projects done.
At least at my office it's only the young people that are actually coming in to the office. It's cliché, but the subsidized snacks, ping pong, etc I think are bringing people back where as I haven't seen a single 'older' engineer back in the office yet.
This isn't entirely relevant, but my dad passed away a couple years ago, he was only 67 and I was 30, and during the course of his illness, I had ample opportunity to think about aging and dying. I think the most important thing to remember is that people grow old and die. This fact seems so obvious that people nearly roll their eyes when you tell them, but I've seen people in their 60's and older just torn apart by the very normal things that happen as their parents die, mostly revolving around really not wanting to believe that their parents are dying. I remember someone in their 70's saying that it wasn't fair that their father, who was in his 90's, had cancer. What should have been gratitude for such a long life was replaced by bitterness that it had to end at all, which seems unfortunate.

It's hard to handle mortality gracefully, but really, fully internalizing that you have a finite amount of time with your parents makes it easier to deal with the frustrations of daily life, and also helps you keep a clear head when it comes down to it and tough decisions need to be made. As much as it sucks, you will be the one holding their hands through the end, and it can be a profound experience if it's not just a giant cloud of negativity and overwhelm (which is totally understandable, but not necessarily the only way!).
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Have there been any studies separating "natural talents and gifts" from a privileged upbringing where education was prioritized from the moment of birth? I don't think enough attention is paid to what happens during the critical period of early child development (0-3 years of age).

If it turns out that "natural talents and gifts" are really just due to a better critical period for the child, then the liberals here are really shooting themselves in the foot with this argument.
You are peeing in your bathwater.
Linux-based distros are my preferred desktop. I use them wherever and whenever I can; I've rejuvenated relations' older hardware that was dying on windows by installing a linux-based desktop instead. I've paid, and continue to pay, money to support them.

Packaging is the bete noir. It could be so great: apt and its peers pre-dated the commercial app stores as a convenient way to find and install the options you wanted. But things in the linux packaging world haven't meaningfully moved forward since then. Sure, we've had Flatpak and Snap (and the bickering that goes on between them). There's also Nix and Guix and the promise of reproducability. But none of them has actually moved the ecosystem forward. Instead, they've introduced even more choice and fractured things further.

There's no agreement. As the article notes, installation on windows and mac OS is consistent: there is, by and large, one dominant way. Go to the website for $your-app, hit the download link, and it's pretty stark:

Windows - here's the MSI
Mac - here's the dmg

Both jut work.

Linux - ....

If there's a link at all (and there's often not), you can practically hear the developer sighing as they embark on the "it depends..." story. Maybe there's a .deb if you're on a Debian-based distro. Maybe a tar.gz that you can download then figure out what to do with it.

Packaging isn't a differentiator - or at least it shouldn't be. If ever there was a case for extending some benevolent dictatorship into userland, packaging would be it. That wouldn't stop those distros for which packaging is a core part of their proposition (arch, nix, ...). But for the mainstream - the majority - the variability is just a frustration. A nuisance. An unnecessary distraction.

Dear Santa. For Christmas this year, please can you sort out linux packaging? Mince pies and whisky await. Cheers.