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>It's because it was not a thing in Italy

I'm pretty sure even Tomatoes weren't. I hope this isn't the reason for the disdain.
Thanks, I've corrected it. I don't know why I remember reading that because I used to wonder what might have caused such a reaction from the FDA. I suppose I'm misremembering with some other compound.

Edit: I think it's Sodium Cyclamte I was thinking about, a sweetener in the Non-US Sweet n Low variants amongst other uses.
Maybe.

What usually happens, due to student teacher ratios being a thing, is that the honors class is replenished with lower ability students from the “regular” (i.e., non-honors) class, so the average is brought down fairly substantially.

Note that all of this is a non-issue if you are only pulling a few kids out of a school to go to a magnet high school or something similar.

An example of this can be seen in Japan where the gifted and motivated students are moved into magnet schools for high school, but there is relatively little negative impact on the regular high school, while the magnet high school students get an eduction that pushes their intellectual boundaries.
Everything in society that can be criticized, will be criticized by a subgroup. Even still, I don't think Big Pharma gets enough credit for the multiple vaccines and treatments developed over the last two years.
What I mean is: There is a body of thousands of scientific studies discussing what intelligence means. Yes, some of them diverge in the precise definition, but if you want to add a new meaning that's useful, you need to convince people why the heaps of existing evidence are not sufficient.

That's not an easy task.
I've been using Migadu for years: you only pay for a single account and can link as many domains as you wish.

Also they're pretty cheap and support was helpful when I messaged them.
Trilium Notes can do those very well. The first one being done with the web clipper extension.

https://github.com/zadam/trilium
Agreed. Keep in mind: MSG is used in Doritos. It's not exactly uncommon.
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Looks nice. How does it compare to graphql-code-generator? I've been using that tool for years and I'm happy with it, but always glad for improved tools.
> We can and do already have both, on multiple forums, and even on the big social media platform

Give me one example
> I doubt either of us really cares much about this “conversation” or each other yet here we are

One of the big problems is that we do care for the conversation on these forums (see also the classic "somebody is WRONG on the internet" xkcd), but we don't really care for each other. Relatively few of us end up actually meeting offline or ever establishing real relationships. So you get the illusion of socialization, but when the chips are down, nobody is going to care in your hour of need - which means you're indeed alone shouting into the void.

This was maybe less pronounced in the '90s, when internet groups were smaller and tighter. It's like sitting at some cafe on a small square talking to strangers - where in the past you'd be talking to the small cast of regulars, because the square was a bit hidden away from the main flow of people, but it has been since discovered by tourists, and now you're just chatting with passersby you'll never meet again, about topics you'll never do anything about.
Postgres with Cassandra built in and scaled separately would be really great.
Most people in Europe especially, and especially in Southern Europe (Eastern Europe as well, but that's less relevant to pizza), tend to dislike sweet-and-salty combinations, with some limited exceptions (such as carrots or peas).
How does this compare to testing with address sanitizers?
Fact checking on media is bad.

The BMJ article, however, was horrible. Poorly sourced (based entirely on someone who was fired and didn't have the technical capabilities they had to judge the claims they were making) and the BMJ editors have basically descended into new age woo instead of real science (I am not sure if this affects the journal, but the specific article was BS).
When the temperature is at 100 and you want your house at 70 there is a 30 degree difference. When the temperature is 30 and you want your house at 70 there is a 40 degree difference. Even with heat pumps (which are a good idea) you need more power to handle larger temperature differentials.
Are there any sources or predictions on how Paxlovid production and availability will scale? I'm specifically wondering when (if ever) Paxlovid will be widely available and begin to have an impact on COVID hospitalization.
All wrong. Every solution is garbage.
>> second, in a conflict of literal nazis vs everyone else, being neutral is nothing to be proud of - any sane person can see that

So you're saying they should only be neutral towards one side?
The "Linux enablement" section of https://www.morello-project.org/ says that is "under development", with an initial prototype musl based system available now and a fuller-fat Debian scheduled some time this year.
> Could there be a paradigm where we can have a 2nd hand marketplace?

For items that can be copied identically for basically nothing and never degrade? The only reason we even still have a first hand market for these things is that we want to compensate the producers of the work who still need to earn money to put food on the table. To do that we use the ridiculous concept of "intellectual property" to allow those producers to work within a system not designed for a post-scarcity space. I cannot conceive of a 'second hand' market ever making sense here without just piling on even more perverse concepts.
Microapps architecture in Swift. Feature modules
I can safely say that the team members working in DynamoDB are very skilled and they care deeply about the product. They really work hard and think of interesting solutions to a lot of problems that their biggest customers face which is great from a product standpoint. There are some pretty smart people working there.

Engineering, however, was a disaster story. Code is horribly written and very few tests are maintained to make sure deployments go without issues. There was too much emphasis on deployment and getting fixes/features out over making sure it won't break anything else. It was a common scenario to release a new feature and put duct tape all around it to make sure it "works". And way too many operational issues. There are a lot of ways to break DynamoDB :)

Overall, though, the product is very solid and it's one of the few database that you can say "just works" when it comes to scalability and reliability (as most AWS services are)

I worked at DynamoDB for over 2 years.
If the main concern is to keep a free Google Account on a custom domain, then that's still possible. It's enough to convert all users from G Suite to the free edition of Cloud Identity - https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7319251?hl=e...

Obviously that will require a replacement for gmail, calendar, etc, but it's understandable if somebody doesn't want to pay for Google's version
Sorry I've corrected my comment above.
Good point, I'm mostly doing web stuff so I always think about how something looks in JSON in the network panel of my browser.

If you just use the value within your code the runtime representation does not matter, you're completely right.
Part of the problem is that you would rapidly end up with no laws in many areas. Congress fails to address vast swaths of its responsibilities as it is for lack of time.
https://purelymail.com/ is a simple alternative I've been using since I saw it posted here. $10 a year or https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing, mostly your choice depending on your usage.
Munich declaration of the duties and rights of journalists (1971)
I agree that the tool and menu bars are helpful for beginners. I disable mine to reclaim the vertical space (precious in a 16:9 world), to focus my attention on using the command keys, and because I'm a relatively experienced Emacs user! If keeping them helps you get your way around Emacs, by all means go nuts!
> it was seen as the sign of being out of touch with "real pizza" traditions.

...by people who don’t know where what they think of as “Italian pizza” actually comes from. Look up “pizza effect.”
> the amount of time writing software is almost always going to be dwarfed by the maintenance period for software that makes it to production.

Oh sorry, I meant it the other way around!

So, I mean, I've seen this in scripts that I wrote to "quickly do some stuff".

1. Write the easiest possible implementation you can think of, just string together code in the REPL until it works, then put it all into a .py file

2. Some new need arises. Make the easiest possible change that causes it to work, like adding a new switch that completely changes the control flow.

3. Some new bug arises. Make the quickest possible change that causes it to work, like running the entire program in a while-true loop in case it crashes.

4. Continue along this manner until half of the code is commented-out garbage.

5. Rewrite.

There's no need to make it a thing of beauty, because it's easier to just scrap it and rewrite it. For the short term, making a "quick fix" is nearly always better, and for the long term, running a buggy piece of shit might still be preferable to spending good money to rewrite it.

(Also, the good stuff often already exists as open-source software, so it's only the hyper-specific stuff that's proprietary, and that will be closely tied to business needs.)
This is one of my favourites: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

Snopes acknowledges that a convicted terrorist (ie, someone that targeted civilians to enact political change) sat on the board of a BLM funding body then concludes 'mixture' because there is no universally agreed definition of 'terrorism'.

> In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."
In their defense, most members of the mainstream media are so scientifically ignorant that they probably don't even understand the difference between those theories.
> imho represent a misunderstanding of what Typescript is going for.

It's pretty what TypeScript's going for though:

> Avoid adding expression-level syntax.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
Would love to see this where you can toggle between a three-sphere, flat, and 3-hyperbolic space.
Depends what you are talking about. If the topic is pollution or climate change, then total energy consumption is the problem, which inevitably leads to overpopulation being the problem.

If the topic is how much of society’s resources should be allocated to maintaining quality of life for those who cannot by themselves, perhaps due to old age, then a labor “shortage” will be the problem. More accurately, it is about which proportion of society’s resources should go towards supporting those who need assistance, changes which show up as changes in prices for labor.

I am not too fond of the idea of using society’s resources to keep people of very advanced age living longer and longer with poor quality of life. This rationing of resources will exacerbate due to reduced birth rates compared to previous decades, in conjunction with increasing lifespans and medical interventions.
But it's just as hidden either way. The API consumer does not know there's an enum that's supposed to go in there. The only way to get that information is to read the documentation.
This change is a killer for those of us using Google Voice.

Not only do you have to upgrade to a Google Workspace plan but you also have to pay separately for a Google Voice subscription. With the cheapest plan (https://cloud.google.com/voice#pricing), being $10/month/user.
No, it would have been very intentional. By not renewing the licensing, Apple is escalating the risks and costs for Ericsson as leverage in their renegotiation of the licensing fees with them.
I was thinking about this policy "Never submit GitLab content to Hacker News."

It makes sense on one level; of course a submission has more credibility if someone else feels like the content is compelling enough to share.

But that's a bit like saying "get interviewed by the New York Times (or the Wall St Journal, your daily paper, etc) because that interview is going to have a lot of credibility". Sure, it's nice if you can do it, but most of us won't ever get interviewed (unless you're Corey Quinn[0]).

On another level, the ability to self-promote (a little bit) makes HN better, because it gives everyone a reason to submit and increases the volume and depth of content.

I unapologetically post content from my personal blogs and my employer that I think is valuable (you can see my submission history, of course [1]). I limit it to ~10% of my submissions. I also spend time submitting what I think are high value links and adding comments when I feel I have something to add. I won't say all my submissions have been perfect and I've definitely gotten feedback from the community over the years about some garbage submissions, but I've learned what kind of submissions spark interest and/or commentary.

In other words, I'm acting like a community member, rather than someone who dumps links for traffic and runs.

Of course I'd rather have someone else stumble on my sites/links and post them, but either my content isn't compelling enough (in which case the voting system will weed it out) or it isn't being discovered by people who want to share it (which is the problem allowing self-posting addresses).

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/technology/corey-quinn-am...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mooreds
It terms of authentication we have:
* Things you know

* Things you have (physically)

* Things you are

We have abstracted a thing we know, passwords, to be managed. The alternative could be multiple things we have and things we are.

So a combination of:

* physical objects, such as keys, smart phones, smart cards, USB drives, and token devices.

* fingerprint scanning, palm scanning, facial recognition, retina scans, iris scans, and voice verification, etc.
> There is a body of thousands of scientific studies discussing what intelligence means

Which don't agree on a single definition. See for example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329
Anyone claiming that there is no innovative or impactful new music is simply not keeping up with new music.
We've been doing this too for some "logical" services. For example, we might have a service which has a REST API and but also needs to do long running processing in response to requests via said REST API. The code for both lives in one repo and can share code, data structure definitions, databases etc. One container is made but we deploy it twice with different args. One is set to run the REST API,and the other runs the processing. Both are closely related, but in the cloud we can scale and monitor them separately. It gives a lot of the benefits of "standard" microservices with much less of the code and repo level screwing around. It relaxes the general microservices approach that: one service == one git repo == one database == one container == one deployment in GCP/etc.
Bumping this up. If someone has done this, would be great to their perspective
Like a lot of instances of food theft or counterfeiting, the fence sells the goods into the legitimate supply chain. The buyer winds up being a regular person who has no idea that this particular baby formula is stolen.
https://archive.ph/YEv1x
This archive from 03:58 has several of the images.
If you are a physicist, Abraham Pais' "Subtle is the Lord" about Einstein's accomplishments in physics is an absolutely unique and amazing book. However, I didn't ask if you are a physicist for no reason. It talks mainly about the science and not about Einstein's personal life and you will need a physics education to follow along.
We don't have a paper on DynamoDB's internals (yet?), but here's a talk you might find interesting from one of the folks who built and ran DDB for a long time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ

And Doug Terry talking through the details of how DynamoDB's transaction protocol works: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19/presentation/terry

If we did publish more about the internals of DDB, what would you be looking to learn? Architecture? Operational experience? Developer experience? There's a lot of material we could share, and it's useful to hear where people would like us to focus.
But are you quite prepared for tuna on pizza ?
Astonishingly polite remembering :D
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Either “one true language,” or just as possibly, humans tend to wander from one local optimum to another. At the moment, most mainstream languages are orbiting a certain obvious local maximum with lots of “functions as first-class objects living alongside objects and classes” semantics.

But it was a different local maximum a decade ago, when every language and its dog became OO. And perhaps a decade from now, it will be another.
Acessing manual, documentation, values, functions, and source code on Emacs is so easy that it would be hard to summarize all the ways you can do it. It's an integral part of your workflow, and literally unlike anything else. Unlike other programs, that really can and should be an integral part of your daily routine.

One thing I dislike about the manual is that it rarely presents examples, but commands like describe-variable and describe-function often help elucidate usage. Not to mention external packages that makes all that even easier.
Our work is based on FreeBSD as its tight integration makes it much easier to manage forking in a research setting, compared with the umpteen different repositories you need to fork and keep in sync to build a Linux distribution. Arm have a minimal Android stack and are working on a Linux distribution (but their current Linux kernel implementation does not enforce capability protection, it's done by a userspace wrapper, and only a select number of binaries in the Android image are pure-capability, many are still plain AArch64), initially based on musl, but it's still a long way behind where we are on FreeBSD where we have (almost) all of the userspace and kernel ported as pure-capability code (the "almost" is because we have not yet invested the engineering effort in porting DTrace and ZFS, but both are on our roadmap as they're important for real use).
After Omicron, This Pandemic Will Be Different
> I just find the spirit of his work so depressing

I don't. I think he paints up depressing worlds often, but there's also a spirit of perseverance, of ingenuity, of "life goes on". His characters are occasionally soldiers, but more often workers and everyday people doing their things. In a Nazi alt-history dystopia, he takes the time to explain how an antiquarian earns his living. [1]

In some dystopia were mankind loses a war against aliens, he makes the aliens sympathetic enough to give the remaining humans a fiction to believe in that will make them want to keep on living. The aliens are also quite forgiving and want to rebuild Earth after the war. [2]

When robots take over humanity, hidden in underground caves after a terrible war between the East and the West Blocs, they are actually hiding the fact they rebuilt the world and it's green and healthy, ready for us to re-enter it. [3]

When an alien invader supplants the horrible husband of the woman protagonist, she finds the alien is actually loving and caring, and prefers it to her husband. [4]

When a (possibly deranged) dog sees threats to the family it loves in everyday things, like the milkman or the garbage truck "stealing their garbage", it does this out of love and fierce loyalty -- however misplaced. [5] (or is it..?)

When an authoritarian interstellar military force wants to punish Earth for having ruined it all, those cheeky earthers invent an elusive rebel leader, Benny Cemoli, and pin all the blame on him; keeping the military force occupied chasing ghosts seemingly forever. [6]

When an underhanded authoritarian government is shaping up covertly in Callisto, Earth agents find the way to dismantle it -- and in the process, PKD shows his vision that there's no concept as absurd and easy to subvert as the concept of "a just war". The good guys win though. [7]

I agree PKD often imagined visions of dystopian hell, but he just as often offered nuggets of hope and everyday life. A bit like Bradbury, only more surreal.

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[1] "The Man in the High Castle"

[2] "Precious Artifact"

[3] Can't remember the title of this one, sorry

[4] Also cannot remember the title. It was included as an episode of PKD's Electric Dreams.

[5] "Roog"

[6] "If there were no Benny Cemoli"

[7] "The mold of Yancy"
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(I've corrected the comment) I know, which is exactly why this thing stood out to me. I don't know which substance or process I'm misremembering but I'm pretty sure there was something/some context where the US had stricter laws than the EU.

I think it's Sodium Cyclamte, a sweetener in the Non-US Sweet n Low variants (I'm guessing because I had researched sweeteners pretty thoroughly at one point too).
If anything I'd bet on MS sticking it into their Office subscription, not Windows itself. So 1Password will be up against iCloud Keychain from Apple and Microsoft Passwords 365 on the enterprise front.
This is Texas we are talking about. What they consider extreme cold is still within a modern heat pump's useful range.

If this was about northern Canada or other such climates you would have a good point.
Still, this is not the primary pathway the virus uses. A Paxlovid resistant virus won’t suddenly have a general evolutionary advantage for growth. It’ll just be more likely to kill people.
> Honestly, do we need to get more scientific than that? No, seriously - do we?

Yes. Anecdata isn't science. People don't remember even the recent past accurately. We need hard data. I can't believe I have to say this on HN.
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> If that line is inside some huge blob of changes (from weeks of work) inside one commit, that is less useful to me.

Yes, that's true. My original point still stands though. That commit will have a PR associated with it. You can go to it and see the details of all commits that were used for the merge commit that went into master. Not really a lot of extra work to go to the PR if you're investigating that deep.

> Even if the original branch is still floating around somewhere, that would still be an extra hassle.

If the branch deletion setting when merging a PR is selected, then only the origin branch will be deleted. If you're the one doing the PR and you don't delete your local branches you'll be able to see it locally. In the other case where is someone else's then it becomes harder, and I agree it's an extra hassle.

In my work I try to mandate PR's to be as small as possible, but not smaller. Big PR's do happen, but that and resorting to git blame or bisect happens maybe 2-3 times a year. I think the general rules for source control followed by the team are more important than the implementation details and git magic.