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Indeed respiratory virus pandemics have ended naturally in less than 2 years without government intervention.

Prior to 2020 the consensus was that these pandemics can be prolonged by measures that spread out the cases. Now we see that this is true.
Not sure what the lesson is?
South Korea is a very different country. Their laws and constitution were written by New Deal Democrats at a time when there was almost no existing industry and no opposition from the likes of Robert Taft and Henry Ford. The situation is very different in 21st century America.
Unions can be a productive part of an industrial system, but just throwing up a union is not really going to solve things that simply.
There hasn't been "furious money printing" before, at least not in comparison to post covid. Have you seen the M1 money supply? [1]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

The other misconception I often see is that if prices aren't increasing, then that means inflation is not occurring. Inflation in the sense that money is losing purchasing power, is always happening. It often doesn't perfectly reflect in consumer prices because business are hopefully becoming more efficient at some rate.
what would be the benefit to it being heated by the earth during storage?

all the temperature management here looks to just be counteracting the temperature changes that naturally occur when you compress or expand a gas. i imagine if you compressed it and then pumped hot air into water-filled caverns you'd get some negative effects of thermal shock.
We've used Auth0 for our apps and liked most of it. It's definitely a lot better than rolling your own auth or using something like AWS Cognito.
> To really learn about the innerworkings of the CPU, you must read a book about...the innerworkings of a CPU.

That's simply not true. There are all sorts of learning resources that aren't books. I have personally learnt a ton about the inner workings of CPUs by following the /r/rust subreddit for example.

Most program languages are accessible to people without a university degree or the desire to read a doorstop book on the subject. C and C++ are a notable exception to this. I don't know how you can argue that a language is easy to learn whilst simultaneously holding that it requires a university degree.
>> Can't help but notice tho that U.S. origin of virus was a popular CCP media propaganda point last year.

What am I supposed to make of that, now?
My post was about why D had a hard time gaining initial traction. I also brought up DMD vs GCC and I assume that was also resolved years ago.
> “From the tank a series of high-pressure pipes snake off toward every corner of the factory. A hard rubber flexible hose connects each tool to a pipe. The entire shop runs on compressed air. Every piece of machine is running on pneumatic power.”

This was an entirely normal setup for factories and workshops back in the day, certainly not exclusive to the Amish!

Now days, electric tools have become more powerful and more convenient thanks to better batteries etc, so pneumatic isn’t as common as it once was. But pneumatic tools of all kinds are still sold and still used in some shops.
Regional and wider exchange networks had existed in that region for several thousand years before millet is now believed to have been cultivated. The transformational nature of this discovery has more to do with our understanding of farming practices. As stated in the article, this site precedes the earliest known site where millet was presumably cultivated in that region by 500-1000 years.

If you read the publication linked there is a lot of textual evidence for millet production that goes back into the 3rd millenium B.C.E. The transformation here has largely to do with new methods of discovering what crops were grown where, and a shift in our understanding.
I’ve temporarily changed my time zone to play a bit earlier a few times.
There are pro-social and anti-social uses of web scraping. If you have ever used Kayak or any other price discovery or price comparison website, you've relied on web scraping to provide you a service.
I think there is some inherent bias in using modern forager-horticulturalists as a reference point for comparing agriculture to hunter-gathering. Any culture that both forages and farms presumably does so because in their particular situation (perhaps due to climate, geography, soil quality, etc) there isn't an obvious advantage to one strategy over another. Wherever one strategy was clearly inferior, it would presumably be abandoned rapidly. Most societies historically were not forager-horticulturalists, suggesting that the conditions of the few societies that are should be considered outliers.
Don’t get my home address, name, family members names, salary, cell phone number, aggregate and sell them and claim “it’s all publically available anyway”
There is a great post on compressed air energy storage (CAES) over at Low-Tech Magazine:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/history-and-future-o...
American Unions: fat cats (presidents), dues, fancy dinners with the execs, mafia ties, corruption, pay offs, forced politics, exclusion of work based on joining, lowering of salary, years of law suites, subcontractors (non union) to actually do the work, brain drains, unmotivated work forces, forced protesting, layoffs, forced clicks, voting, forced discrimination. "We can't use her she is non-union". "Sure he touched her, but he is union, we need to consult the union first!" Yuck. My wife dealt with the Macys mafia (union) - what a gross group of fat cats in fancy cars. She couldn't even pay her bills - but needed to pay that union due (post tax of course). All her dues were made in person - they only accepted cash. She was laid off along with a few hundred others - after the union and execs had a fancy dinner - no severance obviously. The union pigs are still doing well getting those dues! Enjoy google!

PS! If you work at google, don't pay the dues: ever. Give the money to domestic violence shelters instead. Put that receipt into your union due. Fuck unions.
Ask HN: Is the quality of Google Maps going downhill?
I've had a few wrong direction this week in a major City given by Google Maps partly due to construction work. The low quality of UX on the iOS app also contributed to taking the wrong cues. Whereas i tried the same route on Apple Maps and it worked flawlessly. I have the impression that this is a recent development and i don't how it got so worse.
I second this recommendation. It's a lovely way to explore some of the beauty of mathematics.

I have a BA in math and I think the most-useful mathematics for everyone is probability (math theory and basic calculations). This is because you'll be better able to deal with (quantify) uncertainty. The concept to aim for is (learn enough so you can understand and use) expected value calculations - which are, I think, the foundation of rational decision making under uncertainty.
>This feels... Unlikely to be a thing of unions.

Why? I likewise have mixed feelings about unions, but I have repeatedly noticed this pattern in countries with strong (typically: constitutionally-protected) unions.
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> you guarantee employee turnover

Why? is your theory - are companies adding COLA to new offers and no COLA to existing employees?

Pay bands and offers have been about the same from the numbers i've seen in the past year or so. If a tech company is paying double your salary they also did before inflation rose. And you could have jumped ship back then as well. And they probably also are not doing any COLA adjustments once you join

COLA only makes sense for minimum wage, if you're making more than minimum you're just constantly trying to maximize your worth in the open market. That has nothing to do with COLA
It's really not that crazy if we take time to make it a priority.
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> [...] usually have a "right answer" from an engineering standpoint, which as you can imagine, has to do with maximizing traffic throughput and/or minimizing delays to each individual vehicle [...]

Another common problem is when an Engineer is told to maximise a specific variable, rather than apply their wisdom to determine _which_ variable to optimise.

Optimising for more cars usually means that public transport can't improve, and moving around gets worse for pedestrian/bikes. Ultimately, mobility does not improve, and you just need more cars and more car lanes. Car flow improves, but nobody stops to think if that's really the most important thing to improve.
It's mostly the same also in Italy. A company is considered "under systematic losses" (translating directly from Italian) after 5 years of losses. It's not closed, but it's considered, basically, a vector for something that's "not business", so it gets a minimum of taxes to pay, loses some fiscal advantages, and pays more additional taxes. Startups (as in "formally registered to the startup register") are not subject to this rule, but they have other limitations (and benefits)
They aren't talking about lag. They are saying at year end, the inflation went up 6.2% (for me) over the past 12 months. I should get a 6.2% raise so that I make the same value next year that I did at the start of the current year. So yes, the adjustment took place after the fact.

What we are discussing here is when the raise amount is (significantly) less than the 6.2%.
No. I quit LinkedIn quite a while back when they made my physical location a hard requirement, and it's been a net plus. LI was never a primary job hunting channel, though. Mostly, it's a cesspool of spam.

In recent years though, I've had more inbound interest due to my online presence, and haven't done any proactive job seeking activities.

YMMV. If I were applying to Microsoft, for example, I'd probably create a LI account.
1. The recommendation is 6-8 changes of outdoor air per hour. See ASHRAE 62.1. For comparison personal homes are recommended to change over their air 0.35 times per hour.

2. I would like to see that cross referenced against ventilation capacity. Again, restaurants are supposed to be changing their air over with outside air a lot, the idea that a properly ventilated space would have represent an infection risk days later is in the “doubt” category for me. Basically, please provide a source.

Heck, last time I was in Vegas I could barely smell people smoking a few feet away from me, the ventilation was that good. If cigarette smoke is the metaphor we’re going with for viral particles and dividers, that strongly implies that better ventilation yields a lower infection risk.

3. Exactly. This is an argument for masking when you’re not eating. It’s not 0 risk, but it’s lower. How much lower is debatable, and obviously depends on more circumstances than just masking policy alone.

Personally I’d rather just get takeout when local case loads are high, like right now.
It depends. Covid is a high k disease, a few people end up infecting hundreds in an afternoon, many people fail to infect the spouse they share a bed with. Partially that's behavior but partially it's people achieving very different peak viral loads as well. The protection factor of 2 or 3 you might get from a surgical mask are going to be useless in some situations but might prevent an infection in others.
Curiously there's a second article discussing compressed air energy on the front-page of Hacker News at the moment - it's about the Amish and their hacker mentality [0]. There's a beautiful discontinuity between one of the more tech-savvy old-guard banks and the technology-careful Amish adopting the same technology.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29905288
Why don't I have a blog?
I've never used LinkedIn; I find such business models unethical (essentially: selling access to information that is provided free-of-charge by users). Their subsequent spamming of phone contacts, and aquisition by Microsoft has reenforced this opinion.

I've never had a problem getting a development job, for the past 11 years. I'm in the UK.
I’ve been there pal. My biggest hope for you is that you can get out. I’ll be thinking about you and wishing you the best.

Tactically speaking, when I was there, my negativity came across in my resume. So I was really stuck. I’m lucky enough to be friends with a pretty good editor and she really helped me.

If you’d like a fresh set of eyes on your resume, you can email me. My address is in my profile.

Just a warning, I likely won’t reply until late tomorrow or early Friday. I have an adventure planned with my five year old. :)
Who is known for their scientific prowess? A16z and with sprawling investments in web3? Capital is capital. We should be cheering on these types of investments regardless. Electric motors have been around for a looong time as well..
By what metrics has this worked great? Genuinely curious as I hadn’t heard this before.
Anything you can convince yourself isn't losing money.

I suppose that math can get very weird if countries factor in expected appreciation of crypto they plan to hold. And even weirder if they end up perceiving a geopolitical stake in maintaining a certain fraction of the global hash rate.

When I mention the logic of money-launderers, I mean something more like https://www.elliptic.co/blog/how-iran-uses-bitcoin-mining-to...
Also adds a ton of pollution from using (often old and poorly maintained) Diesel engines in the name of avoiding the electric grid. Adding to that, compressed air is a much less efficient source of power than using electricity directly.
With regard to the lazy worker, honestly, who cares? You still get paid. The company isn't going under. No doubt like most situations of abuse, this is a minority case because in general people like being productive.
I hope my future kid grows up to become a great carpenter.
Oh dear, don't just throw a name and a book title at me. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kant, Wittgenstein, Popper, Derrida... none of them got it right or else we wouldn't be having discussions like this one!

But all of those philosophers got closer than anyone in the last 70 years or so because they didn't just throw names and books at each other, they thought for themselves and engaged in debate.
I’ve been running hackintoshes as daily drivers for a decade.

Glad to see there won’t be a hard stop, though this is beginning to sound more like emulation.
I don't see Facebook receiving the same treatment.
I see some useful discussion here. Can anyone speak to the concerns around Auth0? Is it Okta?
reddit is the most heavily censored sites on the net...lol...twitter,facebook..youtube..all the same...this is juts more fluff to ban & censor more voices who upset the safe spaces that these parasite companies like to maintain....#LegacyMediaIsPropagnda
It's a concern but it has been getting better. Dead code elimination (DCE) in kotlin.js has improved in the last year as they rolled out support for the new IR compiler with 1.5 and 1.6. It's still not perfect, but it's getting there.

For what it is worth, we are using the Fritz2 framework, which is quite nice. That was definitely a bit of a bet a year ago but we've stuck with it and they are getting close to a 1.0 now. We might switch to compose web at some point but it looks a bit early for that right now. One plus point with Fritz2 is that it comes with a nice component library, support for themes, etc. So you can get up and running pretty quickly without spending a lot of time on custom component design.
I understand people using bots to snipe PS5s and GPUs, these have real economic value and actual usage.

But what other than artificial scarcity drives people to spend hundreds of dollars on bots to snipe sneakers?!
Removing CO2 from atmosphere is still much, much more expensive than alternatives. People just don't seem to understand the vastness of our atmosphere and the scale of operations that would be needed for this.

Our atmosphere weighs ~5 quadrillion (5x10^15) tonnes. We are talking about an apparatus that can suck that amount of gas and process it to remove CO2 that is already very dilute.
I think they said exactly what they meant.
This website is crashing Chrome on my Xiaomi :/
If you don't fire bad employees and just shift them around, it's more likely they will find a manager that promotes them, is it not?

Unions sound to me like just another layer of bureaucracy, with its own mind and interests. Any extra bureaucracy increases corruption and inefficiencies.
"Workers descend to hollow out a cavity, which the company then floods."

reminiscent of The Day Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGE9153VFE
I'm in the US and have a similar experience as the poster.
No, there could still be inflation or deflation. Those terms refer to price levels denominated in a currency. If wages increase, then the "buying power" of the wages might not change, but the nature of savings and credit can be dramatically affected.
Can someone explain their revenue to me?

They claim 1m in revenue from their existing product which is:
"1.75 megawatts (MW) of peak power output; a 2.2 MW charge rating; and 10+ megawatt-hours (MWh) of storage capacity"

How does that equal 1m in revenue? You have to pay to charge your air-battery during low-cost hours and then discharge it during high cost hours to make the difference in revenue.

The issue is, you can buy 2 megawatts of power 24/7 at average datacenter energy pricing (~5c/kwh) for $2400/day or 876k/year. Who is paying more than that for less energy and only at certain hours?

Is there some energy company somewhere that sells power during the day at like 50c/kwh and 1c/kwh at night???
I'd try shadowing your clients. Have discussions/sessions with them on occasion where you investigate their goals, what benefits your service brings to them, and any frustrations that they have generally in hitting their goals.

"The Customer-Driven Playbook: Converting Customer Feedback Into Successful Products" by Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich might be a good option for what you're trying to accomplish
They don't have strong unions like in America.
> larger particles, this is almost certainly an upper bound as well

Shouldn't it be better at filtering larger particles, and therefore a lower bound? Or am I getting confused

Agree that putting numbers like this are misleading.
It's to prevent people from registering their hobby projects as a businesses to deduct expenses from their taxes.
My mask is N95 in public, but my main strategy is to almost never leave my apartment, which I live in alone. I think when people start talking about mask efficacy, it also depends on what you're doing with that mask. Are you only going to the grocery store once a week, or are you going out every day, to work inside a building, and going in and out of buildings all day? When they talk about a poorly fit KN95, is that on a person who runs into the gas station for 2 minutes, or someone who works at a concert venue?
As others have said, in the current climate at least if you have a good linked in profile recruiters will proactively seek you out. And I have indeed found work via these cold call recruiters. But it's not strictly necessary at all.
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I think there is a subreddit for it.
Those are mostly the people just wearing a mask because they have to. Personally my thinking is "the mask mandate is here for a reason, and if I have to wear a mask anyway, I might as well wear it so it actually protects me", but even I have "misadjusted" an FFP2 mask for better ventilation when sitting in a 90% empty train on a hot day...
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Having a license where "network use is distribution" seems to be a must these days.

I also recently found the European Union Public License (EUPL, e.g. [0]), which seems similar to the AGPL. Might be interesting to Europeans. The translations being available in multiple languages is really nice. It being a less often used license could also be a feature.

[0] https://choosealicense.com/licenses/eupl-1.2/
In the 80s my grandfather used to do this for the former Soviet Union. Long story short they were pressuring a salt mine at night for energy storage and somebody failed to report a water leak during the day. They tried to depressurize the mine but it ended up blowing up anyway killing a couple people in The process. This shit can be really dangerous if done incorrectly.
What's your argument? That talented people can't get ahead at Google or competing employers?
Having had a conviction I don't want to pick up one for lying on my CV. In jail I knew someone convicted for just that, though I think it is rare.
This line of thought might be something that makes employees think that “union sucks”. At a place like Google I assume that everybody thinks they are high-performers and in most cases they are since they got into google. So the majority will always think that they will be “under compensated” and never attempt to unionize. What I want to know is, is it really just another way to convince employees against unions ?
I searched that page and didn't see a rule about jokes not being allowed
And I'm in the comments if you have any questions/feedback.
JSX is a first-class citizen in ReScript. No decorators required for JSX. Only required for React component function signature.
Then Google should just hire 100,000 devs this year, why not? They're not going to go under, who cares that they won't be able to contribute to the success of the company?
It will take a while for companies to "realize" the inflation. They have all sorts of reasons not to, including the obvious selfish one, but also including a lot of business reasons.
While I'm strongly in favor, in surprised Facebook+WhatsApp+Instagram is a problem while Google+Gmail+YouTube+Meet+GCP+Chrome+Android is not.
It's interesting that the same people I mention seem to be advocating for the same incoherent agenda.
Just for clarification, do you mean the actual flag waving nazis from ww2, or the "nazis" that exist today?
Inflation is a phenomenon caused partly by human expections - if you think your costs will increase, you increase what you charge (to customers, employers, etc.). You can create inflation, to a degree, by making people believe it is happening. (That doesn't rule out all actual inflation and it helps to have some price increases - for whatever reason - as kernels of truth)

During the recovery from the 2008 Great Recesssion, reactionaries pushed inflation, inflation, inflation - they sold gold on popular national shows of a certain cable news channel - but to no apparent effect. The economy was at much more risk of deflation and only their own tribe seemed to listen at all (afaik).

But the world has changed significantly since then. Now the most powerful actors in our society are now the mass reactionary disinformation campaigns, which very broadly seem to serve the interests of the same or similar groups. They seeem almost unchallenged in their supremecy over 'truth' for much of the population - even people I know who should know better seem to just accept them. It seems that they can merely repeat just about any claim and no matter how nonsensical, people will join in (in fact maybe the more nonsensical the better).

With their new tools, their inflation push is arguably much more powerful. Are there resources which track the activities and focuses of disinformation campaigns?
I’ve never gotten a job from linkedin despite having an account (and references). I closed my account about 5 years ago and still manage to get competitive salaries in senior level tech jobs.
There's no denying that Sinclair has propelled longevity research, but his promotion of certain molecular systems is generating some valid skepticism... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7u6esW3qVw