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There's often more than one statute that prohibits a certain proscribed activity. You might not be liable under the Texas Vehicle Code for DWI for drinking and driving on a non-public highway; but depending on the circumstances, you could be liable for under the Penal Code for reckless endangerment (section 22.05(a)).
Consumers choose to speak on platforms that are profit-seeking. How are you going to force your fellow citizens to stop doing so, and to use the non-profit versions instead?
I'm fairly decent with clay, always wondered if I could make something like a raspberry pi case with sculpey. But not curious enough to ruin my toaster...
I think I'm in a similar situation and try to find out how to cope with it. The strategy I'm thinking about is - realizing what's happening (as you have articulated wonderfully), anchoring my self-worth else where (writing code / designing original solutions -> pushing what ever that's being discussed by those 3 people to an executable conclusion), finishing and delivering this project asap.

I guess the next step for me is to figure out how to avoid going into such situations (I entered the situation because I was joining a team in an area that I wasn't familiar with and decided to work on an existing project whose owner has a very strong presence and I didn't clarify the specific work item / boundaries clearly in the beginning).
The other reply mentioned that threads and processes aren’t much different on Linux. But on some other POSIX systems, privilege separation and resource limits tend to operate on a per-process basis - both of which are important features for a mature RDBMS. If you want to limit the CPU/memory/IO usage of a connection or ensure that a connection never accesses a privileged resource, and you need it done in a portable manner, then each connection needs a dedicated process.
For those interested in the summary
N = 14,773

T = 15 months

in a corporate environment.

- 18-19 yo are most likely to fall for phishing

- people who use a computer in only a specialized fashion such as a single specialized program are most likely to fall for phishing.

- Gender doesn't have any relation to falling for phishing

- Training someone after they fall victim to a phishing attack makes them MORE likely to fall for future attacks.

- Warnings on emails are effective, longer warnings are less effective.

Those were the big ones I got interesting study maybe it will help InfoSec at my company not send out test phishing emails every week.
It would be comparable if we had a vaccine for obesity. I see no dark pattern.
Interesting. Indeed animal hosts could be problem. I would counter two points:

1) Assuming animals were a major source of variants, it quantitatively but not qualitatively changes the problem. Until we know the quantities, I do not see how you can assert relevance.

2) The references you provide say Omicron came most likely from a human with prolonged infection. The paper proposing a intermediate variant in mice is interesting, but considered unlikely (your reference: "Evolutionary biologist Mike Worobey, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona in Tucson, said the most plausible theory remained that Omicron evolved in an immune-compromised patient with a protracted [SARS-CoV-2] infection.")

Viral replications are the only scenario where variants can emerge naturally. Duration of disease and severity of disease are correlated with load and total viral replications. Vaccination reduces both at the population level. A vaccinated person therefore will on average be a less likely source of a variant. How much this weighs against other factors when deciding on policy is impossible for me say, but I would insist it is not irrelevant based upon current knowledge.
Not even that - the Falcon 9/Heavy fairing is the same width on the inside as Ariane 5, only the exterior is narrower (but the walls are thinner). The rocket simply didn't exist at the time when JWST was designed, and changing the launcher for a project of this complexity years after the design and build started wasn't even considered, understandably. But it will be very different for future projects.
A very nice little mixed-media editor. Slightly more heavyweight in terms of file dependencies than I'm used to on Windows (but makes sense given cross-platform origins).

Strikes me as similar to the excellent (but unfortunately abandoned) NoteLiner.
Ah, yeah, that’s the term I’m more familiar with. Thank you.
Newsflash, there is little of anything being taught in K12. Public schooling is a sad joke in the US.
What we need are tests that indicate immunity levels and give a good predictor of risk.
320x240 with a 5x8 font is 64x30 characters. You could make it work but it wouldn't be comfortable.
You seem to know a lot about an anonymous person on the internet!

If you can't see that abortion is polarized along partisan lines, we live on different planets.
$30/hour for software devs in Scandinavia divides how much people earn up to if their education is short, and from if their education is long.
Android malware can factory-reset phones after draining bank accounts
"shortcut"

No such thing. That is the wrong way to try and do something in business. It may seem like a shortcut to copy the business model BUT you will have to deal with challenges in the country you are trying to implement it. It is surely possible and works but don't think there a shortcut to it.
Agreed, very cool concept. I've thought about being able to manually grab page contents into BrainTool notes but having a per-topic custom selector would be next level!
My experience too - I wanted to make games so when we had trigonometry and analytic geometry in class I was like "yes please, I can use this, more". Same with vector and matrix algebra later.

Meanwhile I had little use for calculus so I only learnt it enough to get a good grade.
Plants grew just fine at the poles way back when the climate supported that. Humans and plenty of other animals have lived in the arctic for millennia. I don't think the day length is a big problem.
You're not going to get COVID antibodies via the vaccines. You would with other vaccines (e.g., polio, measles, etc.), where they inject the actual disease into your body in order to trigger your body's natural immune response, but the mRNA vaccines don't work that way. The only way to get COVID-19 antibodies currently is to get the disease.

I'm not vaccinated and it is by choice because I've already had COVID. Getting a vaccine for a disease you've already had is like wearing two pairs of pants. Sure, you can do it, but why?
>The problem isn't that Gemini has no features, the problem is that it's being marketed as a replacement

Is it? This is at the very top of their front page:

>Gemini is a new internet protocol which:

>Is heavier than gopher

>Is lighter than the web

>Will not replace either

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
But that's not brainstorming, that's something else.
Humans have already measurably changed the angular velocity of the Earth with dams. Not sure why you think it will never be possible to change angular momentum, you just need minor planet collisions and/or flywheels.
I find math to be incredibly useful in my day-to-day life, and am constantly quantifying things and making computations based on those quantifications. I specifically find double booking accounting, geometry, probability, and set theory to be useful in making daily decisions.
People don't use math because... it's only useful if you actually really know it.

"Useful" to me means "Lets you do something you couldn't before with a phone".

Aside from imperial inch fractions(Not a fan of those!), most things require fairly little understanding of fundamentals.

Because most people aren't in tech jobs where they can use it.

I don't have a checkbook or do my own investing. I'm single, and very little math is needed to pick whatever is cheapest, especially when only certain sizes of some things are practical for one person.

CAS systems can do basic algebra, FreeCAD does geometry...

FreeTaxUSA does taxes, I don't have a car to optimize insurance costs for...

It's always pretty cool to see a chance to use math IRL just because it's such an uncommon novelty, but I don't see it very often.

To unlock new capabilities you have to learn all those basics, then move on to learn the advanced stuff that computers can't already do.

It's a pretty long term investment of time. Maybe worth it, but still a lot of work.
https://systemd-by-example.com
I feel like there could be an Explanation #4 which is something like: for many people lots of math is used so infrequently, it's hard to retain after you're done with school.

Maybe more drills would help that?

I did pretty well in high school math and got through the most advanced math classes my small town school district had to offer. Then I opted out of driving to the next town over to do a more advanced math class with something like the 5 other kids who qualified. I think it was pre-calculus or something.

So I ended up not doing math for a year, then I really struggled in my first college math classes, and had to retake one of them.

Since then I've basically just forgotten everything because it comes up so rarely. How often do I need to do fractions? almost never, and when I do, I can just look up a factions calculator. Never mind trig or calc.

Day do day, I think I need basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. And I figure out percentages a lot. But I'm also doing all of that with a calculator.

I think financial cautions, like compounding interest are the most advanced things I run into regularly.
I can't. It's a critique, not a bill.

There are, realistically, probably a bunch of things you could do. Repeal Section 230 except for public benefit corps and setup stringent rules about how they are run / how for-profits interact with them. And so on. I assume at least one constitutional amendment would be required, since money is speech.

I don't pretend the solution is easy, but I know for DAMN sure that yet another VC-funded social media company (substack) is not the answer. I am sure they disagree. I am also sure that Zuckerberg was sincere in the early days about bringing the world together.

Again, it's a critique.
I have a different take on this situation (thought it bears some resemblance to "Explanation #2" in the article). My years of experience in maths education has led me to the conclusion that the role of maths, particularly in child education, has, or should have, little-to-nothing to do with maths itself: it is a means unto a different end, and should not be used as the end unto itself.

For example, why do we make (US) high-school students study elementary algebra? You would be hard-pressed to find an application of the quadratic formula in everyday life, and yet I maintain that it, and the course at large, has an important pedagogical role. All pre-collegiate levels of maths education (arguably including elementary calculus, but certainly everything before that) presents the student with increasingly complex situations, the tackling of which requires increasingly complex problem-solving strategies. From this perspective, all levels of maths education are effectively drilling structured logical reasoning, problem decomposition, pattern matching, rule application, abstract thinking, abstract/concrete translation, precise/"technical" communication, etc. Maths simply provides a rather nice vehicle for presenting these concepts in an ordered fashion with natural increases in complexity. I even believe that the introduction of integers to pre-schoolers is a valuable vehicle for introducing causality and linearity of time.

Along the way, there are certainly valuable real-life skills that are clear applications of maths concepts, and I would agree with the article that most maths programs are woefully deficient in really underscoring the value of these applications. The article opens with a comic about needing "two-thirds of three-quarters", but anyone who has ever scaled a recipe, or worked with so-called "bakers percentages" knows that this is far from being simply a theoretical word problem.

As an aside, I spent a number of years teaching elementary arithmetic to adult students (usually in their 50s-60s, and, without a hint of hyperbole, commonly unable to solve "2 + 2" without memorization). My role was to find creative ways of communicating arithmetic concepts to people for whom the traditional approach often failed. This strengthened my belief in the above perspective by providing an interesting corollary: many of these people had come to learn the "maths-adjacent" skills, traditionally taught via maths instruction, in fascinatingly creative ways. If the ordering and equal-spacing of the integers was not something they were able to truly grasp as children, sometimes they would surprise me with their approach to other parts of their lives for which perhaps you and I would have a more "normal" solution to.
How easy is it to patch its kernel?
If you have a pointer to that definition I'd love to read it. I mean that earnestly.
It's foolish to overemphasizing existential risks and underemphasize marginal gains. If authoritarian mass surveillance reduces economic growth by 0.05%, then in the extremely long term, it is catastrophic and far out weighs the benefit.
Poorly. Many word problems I had were't actually reflective of real world, everyday living. You know, the sort of things folks working a minimum wage job might encounter. I find it absolutely amazing that we haven't done this better since it has been an issue for literally decades.
The baseline for web development in 2022
In real world it's usually hard to precisely quantify this improvement ahead of time and so managers might over weigh the probability that your efforts fail to materialize the win. In the end you need a manager that is comfortable enough with risks, has the same expectation of success as you, and trusts you personally. So as usual, you need a good manager.
Yeah and when it is calculated over the period of time it was dispensed, that is hilariously cheap.

The defense budget for 2022 in USA is $768 billion for just one year. The budget for the entire development of the telescope was 1.351351% of that budget.
You don't have to defend or explain. But you didn't respond to the point about masks. You said that you and GP were on the same page. It didn't seem like that to me since you appear to disagree about masks.
Old articles should have a year in the title -- in this case 1977.
Blasts of flashing radio waves coming from mysterious nearby object in space
Haha I can sense your frustration! What is the real debate, in your mind?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/public_benefit_corporation

The platforms where we talk online should be most analogous, legally, to a library or city hall.
Yep. For one game, the launcher screen depends on an old version of a Microsoft .NET runtime that is no longer distributed by Microsoft, and the current version (theoretically compatible) is disallowed because the launcher has apparently hardcoded a dependency to a specific version.

Then there was another game where I had to install a different DLL to get it to run.

Then there was IL2 Sturmovik that was just plain broken for a long time on more recent versions of Windows. I of course didn't discover this until after the refund window...
Even better: "Linux Subsystem in Windows".
but isn't that the case with all instruction, not just maths?

As a counterpoint to your example, I, too, learnt the basics of electronics when I was young - Ohm' laws, Kirchhoff's laws, etc. At the time I found it extremely uninteresting, and I certainly didn't apply it to my everyday life and still mostly don't.

In phys ed. I had to play handball a lot. I never played handball as an adult. Running around a courtyard for 20 minutes? I don't do that, ever -- heck, why don't we teach kids to run behind a bus to catch it, or in a crowded airport to catch a connection? Now that would be usable skills...

History, geography, literature (how often do you find yourself finding all the metaphors in a poem?), most of what we learn at school is not "used", nor is it instructed in relation to another skill or problem. And yet, when the issue comes up, it's always maths that is under scrutiny.

There is a lot to review in the way we educate children, all the way to university. Not everything we teach has to be for utilitarian purpose, and yet we need to find a way to interest the kids into it, which we largely fail, in maths in particular, but in other disciplines too. Some of it is about helping them relate it to their every day lives, and some of it to expand their horizon. It's not easy, we don't do it well, and most suggestions I've seen are mostly cosmetic or superficial, and I'm not smart enough to have come up with anything clever myself either, sadly.
The premise of directing humanity's resources to avoid existential risk is indeed a very noble pursuit. Which is why I suspect it's been coopted by the climate deniers. It's a form of SEO in which the people who have coopted the title "existential risk avoiders" get to uncorrelate it from the only salient existential risk that humanity faces.
It's my understanding that American Football players frequently wonder, during a game, why there are no automobile tires strewn about the field for them to step into.
I used quite a bit of high school trigonometry when building new stairs and guardrails for my deck.
Thanks for the clarification. The article was talking about shutting down Facebook so that is the source of the reference.
> I don't have any patience with people like you anymore. How did you get your head so far up your fucking ass? Fucking christ man.

My greatest clue that the last 2 years has been more about hysteria, politics and unchecked, ungrounded fear than an actual severe disease has been reactions like yours. Seriously? I'd ask you what world you live in where you think any of this makes a lick of sense at all? What world do you live in where it is okay to say what you just said? How is it not possible that people can have alternate, equally valid opinions as yours?

2 years is a long time to figure out how to deal with covid patients in a hospital. Long time. We have virtually unlimited resources to do whatever we want to fix it. We could have built a new story on every nurse and doctors house for far less than the costs of these lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions.

2 years of creating a corrosive, toxic environment where so many people think it is impossible to question any of this. Like, how is it impossible that smart, well meaning people disagree with "the narrative"? Are we all expected to fall in line with a relative handful of anointed "experts"--many who will feel almost no effects from any of their prognostications over the last two years?

Why is it so hard to believe we could have fixed the "overwhelmed hospital" problem in under two years? Like, it takes barely any imagination to come up with ways to deal with it. All kinds of ways to get people to care for sick covid patients. Train people in adjacent fields, shovel money at doctors and nurses thinking about quitting, etc. It really isn't so hard to come up with ideas.

Why is the default answer for all this to blame the public, shame them, shame people who question anything, and force people to sacrifice what little short life they have on this planet? I mean how toxic and corrosive have these health "experts" made us? These "experts" are ripping apart the social fabric that binds us together. It's horrific.

Move on.
Hello Hacker News users.

I started a blog, mostly about programming, and I'd like to share with you. I hope I contribute to the community with my pieces of knowledge.

The blog's interface is inspired in old GUIs, minimalistic and yet pleasing. It was made with some simple shell tools to help doing the RSS, sitemap and code.

Of course it is still a work in progress, I intend to add some ascii art to it and other sections.

Your feedback is welcome.
The nurse practitioner market is saturated. New grads are often facing months of job search in most parts of the country. The colleges voluntarily shifted to doctorate degrees to slow down new entrants.
> speech should happen primarily on platforms that are prohibited from profit-seeking and run in the public interest. Censorship on these platforms should be prohibited, of course, but so should any form of profit seeking.

No such platform has ever existed. How would you propose building one?
CBS is a 100% private corporation.

BBC is 100% government owned.

You are basically saying there is no difference between the Empire State Building and the White House.
Based on a book by the same name. I haven't watched the film but I can recommend the book.
Except those million human lives today would go on to produce trillions of human lives and untold amounts economic growth over the extremely long term.
JWST and most scientific instruments are extreme one offs that take a long time to build and don’t have backup parts. So if anything trying to dock multiple parts in orbit would have likely increased costs and risks.

There is a very small risk of a launchpad failure, but sending up multiple launches only increases those risks. Further, building a second one would have been much cheaper though still very expensive.
Yes, as I understand the Ariane 5 was the widest reliable launch vehicle available at the time. Obviously trying to fold the telescope into a smaller space would have introduced even more complexity so they chose it - changing later would have added delays and additional complexity!
I think it's a relative context thing. For example, Hayabusa2 returned an asteroid sample to earth for ~$150M, Perseverance is chugging around on Mars for ~$2.9B, Cassini cost about $3.9B (not sure if that's inflation-adjusted), etc.

Also keep in mind that the original estimate for the program was under $3.5B. That's a cost overrun of almost 3x, which is generally a red flag.
If everyone is unmasked and the Omicron variant seems to burn through the vaccines in terms of infection but not serious illness, does that mean that it can lead to more mutations and more _bad_ mutations if so many people get it? What's the "mutation rate" in a person who has mild or no symptoms and how infectious are they?

It just seems if one sick person creates a bad variant that is more infectious or even more deadly (and burn through the vaccines like Omicron) and everyone is unmasked/etc at the same time then such a variant could spread wide without immediate detection. I have no idea if any of this is true so take it with a grain of salt...
There’s a sickness in today’s American/western culture related to learning / education: against practice.

Teachers design all sorts of activities to facilitate student learning, but they are disgusted to do the most important thing for early learners: repetitive practice.

When students start to learn algebra, many of them can’t even do two digits addition/subtraction by hand. Not to mention to do calculations in the head.

Why learning to do basic calculations/numerical processes fast is important? Basic psychology: reducing cognitive load in thinking through complex processes.

Repetitive practice is the building block of learning everything. Of course there’s more in learning psychology, but that’s off topic.
“In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion about anything. We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions.”

- Edward Bernays, “Propaganda”
Selling apps to the long tail of older phones is probably worth throwing some money in a maintenance team. Especially with phones having a 3 year shelf life.
I was surprised that the consent decree required the program to be shut down nationwide, but it looks like the program began in 2018 and was ended in 2020.