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> “But if you don’t test for it, it’s like it doesn’t exist.”

This is exactly it. During our house purchasing process, our state gives you the so-called right to know if lead exists in a house. But all a seller has to do is check on the form that they have no knowledge of lead in the house. The house could literally be filled with it on the walls, door jams, windows, but if they check "we're not sure", then both them and the state have washed their hands of the issue. So basically, you need to test for yourself. Meanwhile, the state has covered their ass by providing the requirement of the disclosure, even though the disclosure is completely worthless. The same goes for radon testing. And it's practically impossible to get an offer accepted if you do not waive your right to test for lead and radon before purchasing.

It's just irritating to me that industries and the government go through all this trouble to do nothing but cover their ass and stop right before they do something that would actually help the issue in the real world. Additionally, nearly all of the stuff you do when purchasing a house protects somebody else except you as a buyer. It's amazing to me that there aren't stricter requirements, standards for testing, and regulations around testing for lead and radon, two things that are easy to test for but have seriously adverse health effects.

Also, it's surprising just how much stuff still has lead in it. When I was researching ideas for a compost bin in my backyard, many suggested wire mesh (aka chicken wire, wire cloth, etc.). However, I found out that the galvanizing process leaves a fair amount of lead on the wire, which could then leach into the resulting compost, then the ground the compost is used on, and then your garden vegetables. Just touching the stuff at the store now means you have lead dust on your hands.

Even researching what soldering wire to use is a pain because apparently leaded solder is just so much "better" when it comes to flowing than non-leaded. It just doesn't seem to be taken that seriously at the hobbyist level (whereas my understanding is that industrial processes already have switched to non-leaded solder). I get that it's easier to use, but what about when kids or pets are around, or you forget to wash your hands, or when disposing of it?
More like the sea itself doesn't go completely flat after the wave passes. If the water is space, a rock is more like a break in space.
Such a deep libertarian argument. Truly subtle, nuanced and full of deeply detailed examples.
Great write-up with good ideas, clear code, and graphic detail. However my brain hurt more than necessary to read it. Two easy improvements could be made:

- Make each picture expand to 2x or 3x magnification on hover. We want to see the pixels, but opening each picture on a new page and having to magnify from there is crippling.

- Answer the reader's mental question first. Every reader is coming in to see how well the algorithm does against existing options. Have representative pictures at the top of: the original, result of one or two standard algorithms, and result of the best Yliluoma variation you have to offer.
I got one of those papers from my landlord. It's a beautiful document that I can, at best, use as toilet paper.

My landlord has no knowledge of any of the work that was done on the building, prior to him buying it. The previous managers did not keep meticulous records.

Is there lead paint on the property? Maybe. Maybe not. My landlord not knowing about it doesn't change anything in this equation.
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surely no relevance to this thing that dug up information in the pre web browser days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
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Indeed. The rich are too fatty and that may create health issues. Also, their biomass is insufficient to sustain the poor population.

We missed the opportunity of making them useful this way.
I wish I knew but it's definitely degrading the quality of conversation on the site IMO.
Linus has already learned Rust and has been actively participating in reviewing previous rounds of patches. For example[1]. His general consensus so far: "I don't hate it"[2].

[1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1131

[2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099
Based on my experience, these problems are not so much technical as political. It rarely gets to the stage where you openly contest your boss saying, "I wrote it, not you, and I can prove it" - because it is often trivial to prove, especially nowadays. But in general you say nothing because you want to keep the job.
and a departure of all the key execs
"I'm not a physicist but"...
You should be. That was a nice postulation.
That last part about a transactional outbox rings very true. I’ve been at a few places now where people expect the message bus to always be available
Just yesterday I read a Reddit post which I can't find now with a very long list of issues with the game. Some of them quite serious and most commenters apparently would prefer to pay for the game instead of getting this unfinished monetized product.
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Eventually you clear the infection in most cases. How do you think that happens?
I'm so sorry. You deserved so much better than that.
> The Israeli study highlighted previous infection versus vaccinated

Yes, they did this, and showed that natural infection was superior to vaccination alone.

> but not (yet) infected.

Incorrect.

> Note the "previously infected" category did not exclude the vaccinated, but the vaccinated category did exclude the previously infected.

No. You only have to read the link to see that your understanding of the study is entirely incorrect.

> The study...found in two analyses that never-infected people who were vaccinated in January and February were, in June, July, and the first half of August, six to 13 times more likely to get infected than unvaccinated people who were previously infected with the coronavirus. In one analysis, comparing more than 32,000 people in the health system, the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher.

> The researchers also found that people who had SARS-CoV-2 previously and received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine were more highly protected against reinfection than those who once had the virus and were still unvaccinated.
Early Data on Omicron: There's Good News and Bad News
A few years ago I bought a 90 year old house and it was an eye opening experience.

My state has fairly strict lead laws and a lead paint test is required if you purchase a house built before a certain date and have children below a certain age. But I only knew that because I carefully read all paperwork in the process. No realtor mentioned it, but begrudgingly agreed when asked about it. None of my friends with kids had done a lead test when they purchased homes built before the cutoff date. Many of whom have gone on to do renovations.

So I get the lead test (independent lead testing company as required by state law) and many painted wooden surface had lead paint at the base layer (but not the top). The required mediation was for all lead paint to be removed from friction surfaces and windowsills, and all other surfaces needed intact paint over the lead paint.

It cost $40k for the remediation and they did an absolutely horrible job. Zero common sense. It didn't fit the letter of the law or spirit of the law. The house would have been hardly safer than before mediation. Yet it passed independent inspection with no problem. I had to fight hard to get the remediation company to come back and fix the sloppy work. It took almost $60k and delayed moving in to the house for four months.

I came away from the experience convinced that the lead remediation operations in my area are a racket. The inspectors don't care. The remediators don't care. And I only know one other family that even bothered to do the required testing when they bought their house. And this is in a fairly affluent area. So it does not surprise me that we have a lead poisoning problem.
I'm gonna make a "pro-philosopher move" a la Thales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus#Olive_story_...
A someone outside of the US (and who never quite understood the state/federal divide!), I'm really curious about what state regulatory enforcement is in now. It seemed [0] that the recent Republican government aimed to make as much damage as possible to these safety nets. Are they still there and functional?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_Do...
I recently went through a bout of existential angst and nostalgia that led me back to the programming languages of my youth. I spent some time in C++ as it is today and honestly found it such a throughly modern language that it didn’t really scratch the itch I was reaching for. Ended up doing a couple of hobby projects in C, which maintains its brutalist charm.
Also D in 'betterC' mode
I read a variety of sources who are all immunologists, epidemiologists, or doctors. What I try to avoid for the most part is armchair engineer experts of all persuasions and media sorts trying to express a dynamic evolving situation as compelling soundbites.

Or best guess, and it's all just guesswork for at least the next few weeks, it's more contagious, evades the vaccines, but it's potentially less lethal. That's good and bad.

https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/1mx.c5c.myftpupload...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03619-8

More as the situation evolves (literally).
back when I was a 3D artist this was my favorite things to model - low poly things. I loved being as efficient as I can with my polygons. I'll make sure to follow the development. Great job so far.
China. Lots to take issue with, but when they want policy followed, they back it with force (Jack Ma, delisting Didi, forcing Evergrandes’ founder to liquidate his wealth to make at risk stakeholders on shore whole).
> Adding a timestamp to each message is an easy way for consumers to discard any out-of-order messages.

Not correct, but it's very easy to think timestamps will solve this. Timestamps aren't good because system times aren't synced across different computers precisely. Meaning if Producer A creates the first event, and Producer B creates a second event 50ms after (imagine a single row gets updated very quickly twice), but the system time on Producer A is 100ms ahead of Producer B and the event from Producer B gets to the consumers first (variable network latency), the event from Producer A will look like the latest event from a timestamp perspective and overwrite the Producer B event.

One way to solve is it to use not use timestamps, but use a monotonically increasing version number associated with a row that gets updated for every event/update or whatever and is sent along with the event message payload. The book, Designing data intensive systems, goes into this problem a whole lot. Recommend it to anyone discussing architecture. Issues like this will seem obvious to you after reading
Sometimes I wonder if the people that claim they don't have an 'internal dialogue' in their head just haven't noticed it because they don't know where to look for it

There are many parts of conscious experience, that might not be noticed, but become extremely obvious in a Psychedelic state. It is like one of those hidden-image patterns. You would never know theres an image there, but once you see it, you can't unsee it - and you are struck by how blind you were to it before.

There are many correct ways to experience reality, operating off of the same source-of-truth data. Someone born with one eye can go their entire lives not knowing what it's like to _experience_ depth perception. You can give them all the cameras in the world, and they can fully understand the spacial relationships of all objects in the room, but they still wont be able to _experience_ depth, in their mental model of the world, like everyone else. They can't even begin to imagine it.

So, the carpet might not actually be swirling with fractal patterns. But It can be insightful to experience love as a fractal. You might notice parts of it that seemed one dimensional to you before.

woh man, that tree is beautiful.
I find it disconcerting that the go compiler is such a mess that it took this much effort just to alias a new keyword. I know the Ruby internals are famously very nasty but I'm surprised go is this bad.
Most drivers don't interact with other drivers, only with kernel interfaces. A driver for a PCIe device has to interact with the PCI subsystem, but that subsystem isn't a driver in the traditional sense.

Consider this: Does your GPU need to talk to your mouse or your real-time clock? Or does your sound chipset need to talk to your HDD? The answer to both should be no.
Even a file system driver does not need to know about the underlying storage driver, since it operates on a block device abstraction.

Of course, some kernel modules have dependencies on other kernel modules, but those dependencies generally don't cross subsystem boundaries.

(There are of course exceptions to the examples I listed, but the argument should apply to the majority of device drivers.)
Lead plumbing should absolutely be removed where its found. Lead paint... Is a different story. As long as its not chipping or easily accessible it's not really that much of a problem.
On chain storage is expensive per KB so the vast majority of image-based NFTs are stored on awful image hosting services. A very common complaint among NFT buyers is how many of the "NFT-specific" image hosting services have already gone down and/or (of course) respond to things like DMCA takedowns.
I live in a 1920s home. No asbestos that I know of thankfully but it does have lead paint that's been covered by 20+ layers of paint. The windows are the biggest concern since they are original and in relatively poor condition. They are painted shut so no issues of paint chipping off during opening. Unfortunately single pane windows are just prone to condense water which leads the paint to chip so annual re-painting is what I do. My young toddler loves playing on the windows and there's not much one can do to stop him. I just try to wash his hands before meals.

Also it's frustrating because I asked my pediatrician for blood lead test and they wouldn't do it as they said it's unnecessary. I am going to switch doctors and try to push harder at the next checkup. I've heard there is a finger prick test that's not very good and then a blood draw that's actually fairly good but of course more invasive.

I'm sure the neighborhood has lead all over in the soil so it'd be nice to keep an eye on the levels. There's also some more modern concerns like the shredded tires used in one playground or the crumb rubber used in another.
This is why the romans couldn’t accomplish much. They would go to watch Christians being fed to the lions. Not at all unlike contemporary American culture. I hate lead so much.
They have named and shown a photograph of a father of a child sexual abuse victim.

She is now identified. She's 15.

She is still a child, as an adult she might consent to talk about this publicly and be identified, but until then there should be protections in place. Protections in law and media ethics.
Win32 API isn't nice, but Microsoft was always relatively good with documentation etc. and don't forget all the developer support within Excel, VBA, Visual basic etc. Bill Gates early on understood the premise of building a platform and not breaking it. Even if that meant win32 API became ugly over time. Old windows programs still work on newer releases.
There's good evidence that natural infection is more robust than vaccination alone, and that a combination of infection + a booster is best overall:

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
>Yes, it does.

>Anyone who says something definitive about Omicron is either basing it off of a small amount of early data, or is lying to you.

So which is it for you? You seem to understand that a small amount of early data isn't enough to gain certainty, and since you say "yes it does" without acknowledging any uncertainty, I'm going to go with you've chose the "lying to you" option.

Edit: Props to the cowardly act that flagged rather than face the hypocrisy.
I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying this isn't your experience?
> It was field day at school, spent 8 hours in the sun with nothing on my shoulders except a cotton T

My skin is brown-reddish, so I rarely get sunburns and never use sun blocker, but I fear I would get sunburned too after eight hours!
> more credible people aren't being suspended

yes, but this one was the most popular. If they're looking at suppressing news or attention, they'd want to ban the most popular, not the most credible necessarily.
No, it's just a URL.
I love Bisqwit's stuff - he has such a pure love for code and technology, that I always come away from his videos or articles with a renewed vigor for coding.

Thanks for your part in making the world's knowledge just a bit bigger.
Don't read only the examples, but also the text between them ;)
There are also important questions about warning time and strategic responses.

Let's say an upstart AI or group decide to wipe out humanity, or at least a country or continent. What is the time from initial detection to the realization that we as humans are at the end of the world? What do we do then? Do we nuke someone? Something? Everyone?

Any upstart taking over the world strategy is going to have to grapple with this. Chemical weapons have immediate effects. Bio-weapons will take time to spread - time during which they could be detected and possibly mitigated.

I'm sure a lot of actors have taken note of COVID-19's asymptomatic transmission. I'm sure people are thinking of bio binary weapons. Step 1) Silently infect the target population. Step 2) Flip the kill switch and they all die simultaneously.
I wonder if people try to retrofit post ps2 ideas onto ps1 hardware. Or new techniques on older hardware when the knowledge wasn't there or spread.
Climate Change May Make Hurricanes Hit Sooner and Last Longer
The excess of negativity is a problem, and I think it has to due with intelligence in this field developing WAY before emotional maturity.

My opinion is that negativity should be proportional to the stakes.

You try to sell me an expensive product via cold call, then sure be negative.

You try to give me a neat idea for free shared on a website for sharing, then maybe we should all be appreciative of the sharing.
DuckDB, https://www.duckdb.org
In my limited experience it always looks like a lot more typing to get similar bash like results so for that reason alone I just avoid it.
> Other than Eli’s post, there are no documentation or articles on Go compiler internals. How does someone get started working on them? How do they navigate and find all these intricacies without spending hours? Maybe Google has some internal documentation on the Go compiler.

It would be nice to have more information out there on the internals of the Go compiler. Perhaps there is.

I found stuff like:

- https://github.com/emluque/golang-internals-resources

- https://www.altoros.com/blog/golang-internals-part-1-main-co...

- https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals

But yeah, Eli's articles[1] are pretty good.

[1] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-compiler-internals-add...
Rails 7 RC1: New JavaScript Answers, At-Work Encryption, Query Logging, Zeitwerk
> You know how many Americans have a weird dislike of government intervention.

We have plenty of government intervention, but as you've pointed out these regulations are created by lobbyists for their special interests
That is not true. All BioNTech doses used in Hong Kong were manufactured by Baxter in Germany for BioNTech and then distributed in HK by Fosun.

Latest:
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202110/16/P2021101600482...

(they keep falsely claiming Baxter to be a city in Germany. It's a company that manufactures for BioNTech, not a city. https://www.baxter.com/)
We have a similar one with a larger reservoir. I haven't measured, but it can easily filter several gallons a day. If we needed more, I'd buy a second.

If you can, under-sink filters are cheaper/gal and more convenient.

Make sure you're using fluoride toothpaste so your pearly whites stay pearly.
There is no such thing as child pornography, only child sexual abuse images. Hammer this into your head, children cannot consent, and pornography is a legitimate form of adult entertainment.
Recently discovered seismic events are slower than conventional earthquakes
I was on the board of a foundation that was charged with giving out money for a cause, and I found it very disillusioning because what I learned was that no matter what the foundation did, they would declare victory. Every project was victorious. Every project was a success. There was a lot of back slapping. There were a lot of high-sounding mission statements and vision statements, a lot of congratulations, a lot of nice dinners—but nothing ever got done.

This is what most nonprofits, and a surprisingly large number of businesses, are like: https://seliger.com/2012/03/25/why-fund-organizations-throug.... Some nonprofits mistakenly believe that grant evaluations are about evaluating the efficacy of the program, rather than declaring victory: https://seliger.com/2013/06/02/with-charity-for-all-ken-ster...
Yeah, and this is per week data, not per year too. So one year of being unvaccinated is equivalent to 17 years of car crash risk.
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There are no Fosun-made batches.
It's ironic that they're using Substack when they say:

> Big tech has gotten too powerful, and they can silence us anytime they want.

Substack is well on its way to becoming part of "big tech" and is yet another platform you don't control.

Setting up your own blog will not protect you from any and all threats but it makes arbitrary "suspensions" very difficult.
Cloudflare has the CSAM Scanning Tool for all accounts, not sure how well it works.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool/
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I follow completely. Philosophical zombies may have the same "thoughts", but they do not have qualia, they act like they do, but they don't.
As for me, I'm pretty sure I have qualia. I've been watching this movie called "my life" ever since I was born. If I were to be a philosophical zombie, it all would have passed in the dark.

I think the phrase "I think, therefore I am" is the essence here. A philosophical zombie does not "think". It looks like they do, but it's just a deterministic result of neurochemichal events going on in a brain that lives in the dark. Something like a neural network for instance. They can exhibit thought-like behavior without experiencing anything(as far as we know).
I remember some talk in which the researcher quantitatively said that parameter count is the only important metric for transformers it seems. It doesn't matter if the model is taller or thicker or have more number of attention heads.
“your fellow Americans are corrupt”

Yes! They are. And lead is the main culprit. Tv and sugar didn’t help.