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Your assessment of TED talks is accurate.

They spread because they make you feel smart. Books don’t make you feel smart as quickly or as easily. People are very bad at estimating how much they learn from a particular source… instead, when you ask someone “How much did you learn from watching a TED talk?” They answer the question as if you had asked, “How good did you feel watching a TED talk?”

The same problem pervades research into teaching. You can’t use student surveys to evaluate teacher performance.
This falls under the "you're already fucked" part of my argument. If it becomes illegal to have a file, or a book, or an image, then the entire tech ecosystem we all use everyday is completely untrustworthy.

Is that an issue? Sure! Is it a new issue, or specific to Apple's implementation? Nope.
From what I managed to find out, the IV injection is flagged as a danger only for AZ and due to clot risk, not due to inflammation risk. At least that's the idea behind aspiration before injection in Denmark.
Thanks for your comment, I haven't looked at it this way. It happens randomly also often when I'm in an inactive and relaxed state. But I'll pay closer attention to external circumstances.
I think these central banks really underestimate the Bitcoin maximalists.

These people will hold and buy Bitcoin for the rest of their lives.

Half of all Bitcoin hasn't been moved in 2+ years, despite multiple -50% moves.

The price went from 20k to 2k and most wallets didn't even have a coin move from it.
spending 40 minutes

Are you sure you are thinking about TED talks (or perhaps they've changed the format)? Because the selling point of TED talks (not TEDx Talks, which is something different) is that they are 10-12 minutes and to the point. And no matter what you might think of the subject most of them are great masterclasses of clear and precis presentation techniques. You can learn a lot about public speaking and presentation from them.

All that being said TED has gone massively downhill over past few years. When they first started TED really did manage to get some of the biggest names in their fields to give really unique talks. However as they've massively expanded the number of shows they do they've become less and less picky as to who they let on stage. This has led to their 'brand' declining and fewer and fewer prestigious people want to be associated with TED.

any decent book written by an actual scientist will serve you much better.

The whole point of TED talks was never to replace that book. Rather to get you excited enough to pick up that book, especially in a subject you initially had no interest in. In fact most scientists with books use TED as a platform to convince you to read that book.
Exactly! We don't outlaw cars.

But we have speed limits, stop signs, seat belt regulations, airbag requirements, crumble zones, crash tests, driver training and testing, significant drunk driving laws, ...

If we had equivalent sensible precautions for COVID as we have for cars, mask mandates and vaccination requirements would be the minimum and carry significant penalties.
A better xmas present than anything I've ever received. bravo!
What is the percentage of people who fit that description? I'm concerned that the subtext here is that if Bruce Wayne would likely shrug off Covid, we shouldn't worry about it. But the vast majority of us aren't Bruce Wayne.

Fully a third of Americans are obese, for instance. And why is 40 the cutoff anyway? That's half the population right there. So already you've excluded two thirds of Americans, right from the get-go.

And what percentage of "underlying health issues" are undiagnosed and asymptomatic until a severe challenge comes along - like a heart murmur? It's all very well saying "well I don't have any underlying conditions", but do you really know that?
Sure, technical conferences are another beast entirely (I also enjoy many things at linux.conf.au, including the accent that many of the speakers have for obvious reasons).

Although most conferences are about as shallow as TED talks. TED's been portrayed to me as some kind of a revelation, that's why I'm asking. Maybe they just got worse with time, like almost anything tends to do.
>Why not both?

* Americans criticizing China = war
* Americans criticizing America = civil society

Shouldn't even have to explain it. Americans can do NOTHING about China for as long as they do nothing about the USA.
Yes you're right, there's no evidence the South Vietnamese did any such thing

Wikipedia editors at work
Well, I'm starting to get a decent beat going ...
Yes. Word of advice to anyone reading this: if you are given an on-call phone, change the ringtone to something you’re unlikely to ever hear in any other context.
> Replace "javascript" with "img" and the same applies.

Absolutely not, images can be completely loaded in an async manner. Sure, you might have some content jump (unless you do your job and specify the image size ahead of time), but your content is still there.

>Has nothing to do with your theory that this is all a secret plot by Google to sell ads.

It's everything but secret, in the same way that AMP was a plot by Google to sell ads. Everything Google does is in the interest of collecting data and selling ads. Not a single one of their products doesn't have this in mind.
If it never moves, that actually makes it worthless.
> If I want to read an article that is 50kB of text, it's not unreasonable to expect that information to be here before my finger leaves the ENTER key, regardless of how its transmitted.

I mean no, but it can be unreasonable to expect that physical limits get beaten if you have in mind that some people just have a few hundred to a thousand KM between their computer and the server they access.

E.g., in my hometown I may get latencies of 200 ms and more to a few sites, especially simpler ones that have no CDN but are a single server on the other end of the world. Don't get me started if I'm travelling between Vienna and South Tyrol using the train, in some parts (cough Germany) the internet is really spotty and latency spikes up to 10 to 20s are (sadly) rather normal for a few minutes here and there.

Now, with HTTP 1.1 over TCP and TLS involved the setup time already gets me to almost a second of wait time (more than the few tens of ms my finger needs to leave the Enter key) in the former setup and in the latter I may need 30 to 60s, or it even just times out when travelling by train and being in a bad spot, connectivity wise.

QUIC improves there, TLS handshake starts immediately and UDP setup needs less round-times (none) compared to TCP (even with TCP fast-open).

So simple websites can profit too from QUIC, initial load time can get reduced a lot, browsing them is finally doable also on remote, spotty connections. Also, I happen to develop applications that are delivered as web app, they just tend to acquire a certain complexity even if one tries to stay simple, so loading that faster even if nothing is already cached is a welcome thing to me.

Bloated page still will be slow, sure faster than with HTTP 1.1 but still slow, and I definitively would like to see that getting improved, but that's not really related to the issues that QUIC improves on, as simple websites win too when using it; it's just less noticeable there if you already have a somewhat OK connection.

In summary: Why not invent a new protocol if you can significantly reduce overhead for everyone, especially if it can coexist with the simple and established one.
That's like saying the $ or any other currency is entirely replaceable. What bitcoin has over any other cryptocurrency is the massive mining power behind it, making it the most secure. https://braiins.com/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-to-51-attack...

So if you create another cryptocurrency which could use the same ASICS as bitcoin and you convince a lot of miners to switch then maybe.. it could be replaced but that is a tall ask.
Good ol' Hacker News, baby!
Thank you, this is so helpful, I'll definitely order this test.
Look into air washer humidifiers instead. Venta, Boneco, and Xiaomi among others make them.

They use a rotating wheel and a fan to humidify the air. Most of the parts can be washed in the dishwasher so no replacement filters are required.
Let them hold all the way to zero.
> It's been through much much, MUCH worse

The ecosphere, yes, but I'm concerned about humanity specifically.

Also, it might be possible the same argument could hold for Venus. It probably thrived (at reasonable temperatures) for billions of years before it didn't.
I have always assumed my Samsung TV didn't have a mic. How can I check if it does? I don't really want any mic-using devices that I can't control, although I suppose that ship already sailed when smartphones were introduced.
“the fiat shit show” - aka taxes and other laws.
> Half of all Bitcoin hasn't been moved in 2+ years, despite multiple -50% moves.

Presumably a big chunk of this is permanently lost due to lost keys, etc.
Can't wait for this.
I'm not sure if it was default but it was definitely prominently present in pre-Force Touch trackpads. I never liked the new click and drag gesture because I don't like to exert force when using the touchpad.

The gesture is very well implemented actually. It's surprisingly precise and feels really natural in the sense you could release and resume dragging even after all your fingers leave the touchpad. Nothing else comes close
I think with "very much not a progressive utopia", GP was particularly referring to the "utopia" part of the argument. I don't think anyone is denying that SF is progressive, especially for US standards. But it's also just badly run, and there's plenty evidence across the world that "progressive" doesn't need to imply "badly run".
Dunno what the performance of the Pi Zero 2 is compared to the Pi3 (iirc they have the same number of cores, but the Pi Zero 2 has less ram), but I happily run Home Assistant on a Pi3 even with a couple of DOODS detectors running on it processing camera feeds (however it takes about 500ms to process them iirc - its been a while since I set them up and I actually store the recordings of those cameras off the Pi).

Have fun, its a rabbit hole, but a fun one :-)

EDIT: Also if you are in the UK. Poundland have some Tuya/SmartLife compatable Wifi sockets for £5 a piece - https://www.poundland.co.uk/446890-ultrabrite-wifi-controlle... You can open them and reflash then with Tasmota but they are a pain to open.

The EASY option is to stick with using Tuya/Smartlife and add Tuya/Smartlife to HA, just remember to remove the Smartlife skill from Alexa otherwise you can end up with dupicates and Alexa getting confused when you want to turn things on/off.

ATM (imo) the "tuya old" intergration is better than the current offical tuya version (They changed things when updating it, which removed some compatibility but they said they would re add it at a later date, but duno if Tuya actually got round to it yet).

Also if you do use Home Assisant, get into the habbit of reading the patch notes before updating, quiet often there will be breaking changes which mess up with your set up.
Well... Chromium has long abandoned OCSP, so Firefox seems to be the only "major" browser that does it.

(And Microsoft just straightly ignored and broke it. Twice. One on docs.microsoft.com and another on microsoft.com.)
Great point, I think bitcoin might end up serving a role more like a weird bond. I don't think it will ever serve as a currency with the high fees and lack of usability for 99% of the population.
The Rhasspy video overview is pretty great too, I'm impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsAlz76PXJQ
You can also do zero copy clones of production in Aurora, Snowflake, etc, so you don't have to duplicate the whole thing.
"without generics it's hard to do much useful with lambdas in your statically typed language"

I challenge you to read the source for the Go standard library and maintain that position. Lambdas are orthogonal to generics in pretty much every aspect. You need to stop thinking in terms of "filter or map". Programming languages that didn't include these idioms existed long before Go, and will exist long after Go.

I welcome the introduction of generics, but I still don't have many places in many code-bases where they'll be used.
Yeah, but it is somewhat like saying as your revenue scales, so does your expenses. And it indeed does. But it is a net win at the end of the day, for 10% of a billion is much better than 10% of a million.

With space debris, come debris cleaning bots, with those bots come more space debris, and next generation of cleaning bots ad infinitum. The net profit/benefit will scale in the meantime, which is what really matters.
Chartalism is more of an absolute. I don't claim that money has value only due to this reason, just that it is a significant component of the mass delusion.
He mentioned

>rekt coiners have to get a job
I was talking about artificial delays, high fees and things like that... You can have very low fees and near instant transfers with some Cryptos.
>avoid the fiat shit show

it has its shitshow of its own - see $actual_crypto_exchange_busted
The only reliable statistic across US cities now is murders, since those have to be counted. (NY Mayor de Blasio earlier this week tried to use "index counts", ie. merged murder and non-murder data, and nobody will accept that deflection.)

For non-murders, victims have simply stopped reporting. In California, we also have thefts under $950 being misdemeanors. ie. the police won't even show up to take a report, so not counted.

We know this for several reasons, but the main indicator is that when one Target location recently decided to report each shoplifting count, it dominated SF's city-wide theft stats during that period - a single store.

Oh, and stop being a useful idiot, comrade.
Heart problems did increase in young people in a significant way. To my knowledge this trend began before Covid though.
Makes sense, thanks. I probably got into it way too late.
Thanks. Guess I'm going to try out Ghidra later. It probably has way more than what I need.
We don’t know what happened in the alternate universe where there were no seatbelt laws. Maybe there are people here who died because they stubbornly refused to ever wear a seatbelt because they had taken a public stance against seatbelts and made not wearing a seatbelt into a noble fight against tyranny. Maybe in the other universe they’re still alive because they were able to come around and change their mind without feeling like they lost a fight and were admitting defeat.

But I guess we’ll never know, because if you think something is a good idea what you should do is immediately use the government to coerce everybody into doing it under threat of fines and punishment.
> The minutiae of where the scanning occurs is irrelevant because Apple's implementation is merely a way of performing the function without giving up the user's privacy (by scanning locally rather than sending all of your photos to Apple's servers for review.)

This is where you and I part ways. I don't think that's an irrelevant minutiae, because it normalizes on-device scanning. This implementation or others may change in the future and opposition to those future implementations will be hampered by "Apple was already doing it" arguments, which will sound fairly plausible to the non-technical public.

Maybe I'm making a 'slippery slope' argument here, but I've become comfortable with such lines of thinking. My cynicism has been rewarded too often before.
For the second dose, as I walked out of the clinic an old-boy volunteer approached me: "Excuse me, which vaccine did you have?", "Astra-Zeneca" I replied. "Oh, OK then, we asking all of the people who have the other vaccines to wait in this tent for 15 minutes, there have been some cases of fainting ...", he leaned a bit closer, "... mostly women."
Ask HN: What kind of a downvoter are you?
There are many reasons why people downvote comments/posts in any community - be it HN, Reddit, Facebook, etc. I would be thankful if you could explain your reasoning for downvoting the comments when you choose to do so.

For example, I'll sometimes see a massively downvoted comment that's constructive and beautifully written, but it carries an opinion that is not currently popular for whatever reason.

I believe that downvoting someone just because you disagree with them is terrible for a discussion network like HN. Moreover, I would say that I learned the most from the comments that I disagreed with - on all levels, politically, technologically, personally.

I will downvote a comment if it's not constructive, only written to be provocative, etc. It doesn't matter if I agree with the author's opinion or not. If someone puts in the effort to explain their opinion politely and constructively, my thinking is that it's positive for all the people in the community.

So, what kind of a downvoter are you? What are some of your reasons for downvoting a comment?
Thanks, concerning the popularity of Ghidra yeah will try it out.
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
What's New in Rails 7
How about putting a string of microphones around the room, say at the top walls? You can get I2S microphones (here's a breakout for one [1]), so you'd just need a bundle of 6 wires running around the room.

That breakout is $6.95 with price breaks to $6.26 at 10 and $5.56 at 100 which is probably a bit pricey for this application, but really you only need the breakout to make it easy to play around with it on a breadboard. The other parts on the breakout besides the microphone module itself are just a couple of resistors. The module itself looks like it would be reasonable to solder wires directly onto, so you should be able to build a microphone string with just the microphone modules, the wire, and a couple of axial resistors at each microphone.

Here's that particular microphone module at Mouser [2]. $2.64 for one, price breaks to $2.19 at 10, $2.02 at 25, $1.90 at 50, and $1.78 at 100.

There are other I2S and I2C and SPI microphones. The SPH0645 just happened to be the first one I found to use as an example.

I'm not sure though if any of these interfaces have enough bandwidth to support enough microphones simultaneously for this to work. You might need multiple parallel strings, or maybe a hierarchical system, like having some ESP32 modules on the walls too, with each ESP32 handling a smaller string of microphones, and the EPS32s reporting what they hear along with timing data wirelessly to whatever is doing the processing.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3421

[2] https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Knowles/SPH0645LM4H-B?q...
I see Bitcoin closer to the art market then to gold or a currency. There is de facto no universal rule for pricing a work of art other than what someone is willing to pay for it at auctions. As long as everyone assumes that artworks will be sold more expensive in the future and no one sells below the purchase price, the prices will rise - provided that the interest in it remains upright.
No, merely that other transit systems have been abandoned in favor of your car lanes, which makes them an even worse option. We always scale usage relative to what is available, whether that is highway lanes or energy use.
Taxes are good, they pay for civilization and the platform we all operate within :)

I know people hate hearing that, but it is the truth. I am frustrated with how high they are on some things, bad spending, etc. But at the end of the day look around at what we have built as a civilization. That is from the collective pooling of money to build the entire system.
It's using the WiredTiger storage engine which has good crash recovery support. How does the crash present?
How do you deal with the notion of private property as a non-statist?
How about GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone? Not well polished yet but running desktop OS with all its possibilities.
I would counter that Bitcoin is not a currency. A currency is used as a medium to exchange goods/services so you don't have to take goats down to the market to purchase seed.

It operates more like a stock than a currency and can be moved by any person/firm/entity that has a few billion dollars. I would venture a guess that the number of individuals using bitcoin to purchase goods/services is less than a couple percent of the total number of people that have bitcoin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)
For xhr you can use native fetch afaik, the only browser that doesn't have it is good old IE. Basic form validation is baked into html forms. And most of jquery selector stuff is easy to do in vanilla JS.
NYC’s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen
Not OP, but those questions are 2+ years old.
What would you propose the actual mechanism is for these giving fiat its value? Simply these things giving people more faith in fiat? Minimum wage laws, target interest rates and federal reserve shenanigans?

I think if anything all that give me less faith overall than something maintained by people who operate a currency for the love of it.

The value of my past work being tied to the success of something I have no control over, a machine that murders innocent people in drone strikes across the world?

That's not something I want to have faith in.
Well, I left it in early 2021 due to burnout, so... no, not really. The cybersecurity industry is not okay, in terms of mental health.

The major contributing factors for me:

- Reactive panic instead of proactive strategy

- - Detail: The suits in most economic sectors have zero interest in investing in security and best practice ahead of time, preferring to sell buzzwords to customers, and engaging in actual security only reactively. This leads to lots of scrambling and working weekends for cybersecurity professionals.

- - Example: can't tell you how many times I heard companies say "AWS handles our security." This is virtually never true, and the realization of the fallacy of this idea led to many panicked board meetings and embarrassing disclosures.

- Budget by buzzword

- - Detail: The latest cyber machine learning web 2.0 agile next gen thing will always get the funding, while tried and true practices like a good NIDS/HIPS pairing and a robust incident response process are relegated to the budget back seat

- - Example: Much of my time was for a government agency, and it was consistently easier to get funding for security hardware than for people. As a result, we often ended up with amazing, sexy, buzzword-covered hardware, and absolutely nobody (or nobody trained) to actually monitor it or analyze the data it produced.

- Ambulance-chasing parasites

- - Detail: Name a major cybersecurity incident that hit the public consciousness between 2015 and 2020, and I can name at least a dozen startups that cold called me over the next three months offering to address the problem for our organization, and prevent it the next time. These ambulance-chasing companies offer very little real value, and often drain resources from real improvements in an organization's cybersecurity posture.

- - Example: WannaCry/Eternal blue. I received months and months of aggressive marketing promising to fix this across our org, to the point that dodging the spam calls actually interfered with the on-the-ground work of patching endpoints and monitoring for IoCs.

This was my own experience, and may well not be representative of what others have gone through... but after years of 2am NOC calls, all-weekenders, being treated with disdain by other disciplines, and watching org funds consistently get flushed away on snake oil, I threw in the towel and switched industries. I took two decades of IT experience with me when I left. Now I'm paid better, and I'm in a much better place health-wise.