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>Is your opinion that anyone can renege on known consequences of their actions?

That's usually how medical treatment works, yes. We don't tell people who fall off a ladder, slice their finger chopping vegetables, or break a bone playing sports "You knew the risk, you're just gonna have to live with the consequences of your choices"
This particular article seems quite biased to an American working culture. In many working cultures, just doing things and producing results too quickly is frowned upon. Cooperative working where ideas are carefully considered first and resources formally allocated before work begins is also a very normal way of working in many cultures. It's sometimes considered to be slower than the go and do it way of work. But also produces fewer total failures, and creates the kind of slow, steady, sustainable growth that is unsexy to workers in Silicon Valley.
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No complaints about the Saxon processors here (we're using Saxon-HE server-side and Saxon-JS client-side). The XSLT standards are excellent, as is the quality of Saxon implementations.
It's so rare that I see people who actually understand the problem crypto solves; essentially everyone is either balls deep on the clueless hype train, or full of vitriol that there's a real thing happening they don't like or really understand.

IMO you said it perfectly and it's worth emphasizing for programmer types:

> The one thing of value that crypto actually delivers [...] is atomic multi-party transactions across unrelated parties.

I wouldn't say it's the one/only thing though: Ethereum builds a trustless computation platform on top this core primitive, which I think is pretty fundamental and impressive (especially when you consider Vitalik Buterin was 21 when he created it, and already had a long career of writing for Bitcoin Magazine; in particular this article from 2014 criticising Bitcoin's centralisation: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/opinion-on-mining-14032...).
I completely relate and it was the same for me for a LOOOOONG time -- as I mentioned, I got some pretty dumb "personal trainers" few times in a row; they were more like guides to show me around the gym equipment and not actual trainers. Shitty luck but I didn't give up.

And the negative reinforcement isn't completely gone for me even today. I still mis-step sometimes and over-train a bit and then I don't want to do it for 5-7 days after. It's still a constant internal fight.

However, I'll still say that you haven't found what really works for you. My mother is 69 and she gets absolutely revitalized just by stretching for 25-30 minutes with almost zero strain or cardio. Weird, right?

It really depends on the person. There are almost no formulas.

You can find what works for you. Don't be discouraged to experiment -- pilates, light cardio (running, swimming, hiking, buying an elliptical at home, or a treadmill etc.), tai-chi / qigong, aerobics -- it doesn't matter what your thing will turn out to be. It is still out there waiting to be found by you.

But for me to start reaping even basic benefits I had to do no small amount of other things like stopping all dairy and most carbs, eating more veggies (which I still hate months later btw!), get various physiotherapy treatments -- electricity, laser, ultrasound -- and even take melatonin pills to attempt and make my sleep schedule less erratic. Only after persisting at maintaining like seven parallel operations, for weeks, did some first small positive effects of the exercises start to show.

It's a nasty grind. Think of it as overcoming huge negative inertia. It can be beaten but it can be an extremely thankless job for a good long while.

As a rather non-encouraging example, my wife had a friend who was fat and a bit unhealthy ever since she was a kid. When they were both 16 that girl figured she had enough and got a dietitian and a trainer and completely changed how much she eats, what does she eat, when etc., and also worked out 5 out of 7 days. It took her ONE YEAR of doing this, consistently and without skipping, to drop even one kilo and to start truly becoming healthy and losing weight. Ouch. But it did happen and she's completely transformed now.

Again, it's a grind. Motivating yourself to endure it is 50x harder than doing the exercises -- at least for me. My fight still continues (yep, even with the first positive results in). I hope yours will continue as well.
>what would we do differently if it were a lab leak? Increase biocontainment protocols?

Ban gain of function research.

There are many virologists who make compelling arguments that the hypothetical benefits of the research (which have yet to materialize) pale in comparison to the risks.

Every day that goes by that GoF research fails to materialize any of its hypothetical benefits makes the case against it ever stronger.
Gun violence stats in the U.S. have little to do with easy legal access to guns itself. Other factors, especially demographic ones, influence. Note that many states with very light gun laws have little gun homicide, other states with strict gun laws have high gun homicide rates and sometimes it's completely vice versa. Furthermore, if you look at the FBI's uniform crime statistics, the picture gets a bit clearer still, showing that the vast majority of gun crime happens in very specific areas of certain cities and particularly occurs among the African American community. I'm simply stating the numbers as they appear here, not making any judgments on any ethnic group per se.

People love to point at the U.S and its gun crimes as a direct result of the country's gun laws in particular, but overall, when certain very specific factors, population areas and very specific geographic regions are excluded, much of the country where guns of all kinds are easily available is barely more violent than your typical Western European country. The school shootings that people refer to are awful things, but statistically, they don't move any needle so much as an iota. They do however get enormous amounts of media attention. Other countries with very strict gun laws also have mass shootings and mass killings, both with guns and without guns, but again, less media focus because it doesn't fit certain narratives about the U.S being violent as hell because of gun posession.
You have that as a distant second though. There are boards where operational work (not just input) is the first priority for certain board members.
So that's how it is! Thanks for the clarification. :)
> Most of crypto is the same old scams, repackaged. Look up "bucket shop"

A bucket shop doesn't appear to be a scam. You go to a bucket shop and purchase a share of stock, and the bucket shop assumes the obligation to deliver you that stock on demand, but it doesn't purchase the stock right away. (It's hoping that, because you're stupid, the price of the stock will drop.)

The reason it's hard to call this a scam is that a bucket shop selling you a share of stock is economically identical to an upstanding market participant and pillar of his community selling you a call option. Or, viewed another way, it's economically identical to the bucket shop selling you a short share of stock.
That doesn’t change it from being a blunder since it IS inherently political and the consequences were the same.
You got Microsoft in the wrong category. Gates gave the reins to Ballmer, an MBA, which tanked the stock. Ballmer was never a founder, he was an employee with early stock. Microsoft flourished when Gates was the CEO.

> Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates

> [Ballmer] left the MBA program at Stanford University

Ballmer is what Marisa Mayer was (or vice versa). An employee that latched onto a rocket. What made the company successful wasn’t them but the founder. By the time you can hire the 10th employee, risk is already greatly reduced.
> so that such discussions or people can be silenced

Or, alternatively, maybe the rest of the world just isn't that interested in American domestic politics.
I learned that one the hard way when I had to put "diversity" checkboxes in their c-level stalking app.
They have investments that are probably worth pennys on the dollar from what was invested. They still have some value.
Well they can certainly offer free support for one-user, but for all users? There are a lot of 100-view, $1/year revenue accounts out there, and good quality customer services (based in-developed-country, good benefits, smart, can solve problems) probably is in reality excess of $100/hour of fully burdened cost.

On the steelmaning your argument side, there is definitely an argument for "common carrier" status for a lot of web technologies. This would guarantee universal access, fixed prices (either dollars or amount of data collected), and due process for disconnects. Governments could also mandate real ids with each account (therefore drastically reducing fraud and abuse in the first case).
> Or, in other words, what would we do differently if it were a lab leak?

If the virus is a laboratory construct (e.g., a recombinant of two novel natural viruses with a human-chosen FCS; we can argue about how likely that was, but no genomic evidence can exclude that), then it would near-certainly never have existed without that laboratory manipulation. The pandemic could near-certainly have been permanently avoided simply by not constructing it. This was a matter of controversy long before the pandemic; such work was banned in 2014, but the ban expired in 2017:

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-lifts-3-year-ban...

If the virus is naturally-evolved but sampled and released accidentally by scientists, then it might otherwise later have been released accidentally by infected non-scientists. It wouldn't have been necessarily though, especially since WIV researchers sampled remote bat caves that no other humans routinely entered. Sampling of sites with significant existing human traffic (farms, markets, tourism sites, etc.) seems like a clear benefit, a negligible increase in the existing risk of natural spillover. Sampling of remote sites without such traffic seems much less clear.

There's something weird about public attitude to biological risks. When the government did a controlled burn in New Mexico that got out of control and destroyed hundreds of houses, everyone involved recognized that they'd screwed up, even though fires also occur naturally, and even though controlled burns are a valuable tool in controlling natural fires. It seems that intuition doesn't hold for lab-origin pandemics. The 1977 flu originated from scientific research (although the exact nature of that research--whether it was a failed vaccine, or a vaccine challenge trial, or an experiment at the bench--is disputed), and it killed about 700k people. No one seems to care, and I don't really understand why.
> At which point you start comparing the value of an unborn human life to the cost that raising a child imposes on society

Only if you're an utilitarian. There's perfectly good reasons not to subscribe to this moral philosophy.
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It’s not silly at all - that’s how e.g. the first amendment works. “Congress shall pass no law limiting the freedom of …”
Obviously it’s not true.
Or you’d have no legit traffic
I’ve never heard of this. As far as I’m aware, the vast majority of “pro life” and “pro choice” proponents are serious.

It has been used (built, really) as a political tool as you say, but the victors here are quite happy to have won.

And they know what happens now. (It’s gay marriage and trans rights.)

It’s not like there’s a shortage of political wedge issues. And since this is about power, not principle, they will always find more.
Which is why I'm particularly worried about Google getting involved with healthcare. "We're sorry, the malgorithm has denied you access to your health records. Go ahead and sue us, but good luck surviving long enough to see resolution with both you and your doctor locked out of your health records."

And yes, I'm aware that Google doesn't currently seek to be in a position where they could lock you out of your own records, but the octopus's tentacles only grow. I'm also aware that Google Health is quite old... it was around back when I worked on Google's indexing system a decade ago.

Edit: This month, expiration of Google's legacy free tier of whatever they now call Apps For Your Domain is forcing me to get off of my butt and migrate my vanity domain away, and start moving the keys to my digital life off of Google's "free" services. It'd be rather painful if I got locked out of GMail today, and I don't have any financial leverage to get back in.
Occasional use for sports and events is okay but as a consistent vision substitute, they are pretty unhealthy.

Eyesight won't suffer from contacts - it's the corneal surface that will.
There is a difference between disagreeing or ignoring, and spiteful flagging.
> In the long run, history will have a dim view of this era of global polarization with all political sides to blame.

Actually, in the long run, history takes a dim view of the people in the center.

People on one "extreme" side are vindicated. And everybody else gets flagged as supporting the wrong position.

As I put it to one friend: "When the issue was Catholics marrying Lutherans, your church and everybody in the "middle" were on the wrong side of the decision. When the issue was racial intermarriage, your church and everybody in the "middle" were on the wrong side of the decision. Now that the issue is gay marriage, why do you believe your church and everybody in the middle are on the correct side of the decision this time?"

The truth lies in the middle is, in fact, generally wrong.
Ah yes, just show your papers to the angry, racist mob chasing you down and they will leave you alone.
I read this as hashing the content for verification, not hashing for concealment.
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The US is party to various treaties governing fissile material. Whether those treaties can be construed to override amendments as opposed to the original Constitution is a good question.
> is fb done for?

Everyone is on Instagram.
Most likely he visited a bunch of countries, and now he thinks he “knows” them.
I have only played a few of Zach's games. Which one do you like the most?
That's a tautology. The DMCA is a legal action, but not inherently one that requires litigation. There is a difference.
Yeah I'm the one who needs to take the biggest cut - the founders actually pay themselves less salary than me. For the ICs that stay though, we want to keep things the same.
It's just different. The American "left" has mostly abandoned economic issues, but it's gone much further on identity than the European left has. Like, I'd vote for a Euro-style leftist because they'd maybe give Americans healthcare, but they'd probably get called racist if they opened their mouth on Twitter. It's just a different world.
There are tons of horseshoe bats in Hubei, that particular misunderstanding needs to go away.
-5.75 is pretty awful vision, so I can understand the desire. We likely could have fixed that naturally through changing your habits, getting you more accurate scripts, and 3+ activity-specific scripts. I discuss in my comment, how most folks don't really have genetically bad vision but rather persistent biological compensations that can be ameliorated. But sure, if you were looking for a quick fix that doesn't last, I suppose it's effective and I don't demean you for your choices.
What part of this does a bank need if the crypto dies?
This sounds more like a forensic analysis than an operational capability.
And how are you determining that difference? The flagging can just as easily mean "not relevant to Hacker News".
1. If you're going to say you don't like spec because of issues, you should explicitly describe what those issues are OR offer up an alternative spec. Simply not engaging on the spec doesn't present as engineers trying to solve a problem.

2. Neither Apple or Mozilla have described in detail what they think the harms are and why the specs do not cover those harms. But Mozilla is not a gatekeeper and doesn't ban the competition from 50% of mobile devices, so IMO they should be free to decide to do whatever they want even if I disagree with their decision.

Apple on the other hand not only doesn't describe the security issues in ANY detail, or outline why the specs don't cover them, it bans the competition from bringing any solution to the problem while at the same time providing a significantly insecure solution on native which is widely used to track and surveil users and for 9 years didn't even require a permission prompt.

As for resorting to insults about mindless list of things, have you even attempted to build a web app for iOS?

In every single case of the most ardent Safari defenders the answer is no. Unsurprisingly the people that care about the issues in Safari are the ones with the most knowledge that have to work with it daily.
Its pretty much alive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...

Considering the history of 'budget cuts to cut government spending' combined with 'innovation' causing many environmental and social disasters in the US, I see a lab leak from the US Army's lab in Maryland much more credible than anywhere else. Budgets get cut by 75% by Trump Admn. The Army labs 'get creative' in cutting costs and the rest follows.

The lab seems to have started having 'problems with its sanitation and security'. Upon which the US government tried to get the army shut it down. Army refused. The government had to get a court order to shut the lab down around June 2019. At this point, a 'pneumonia' outbreak was reported in the retirement communities around Maryland. Also, the army team that went to military games to China, Wuhan were trained here before leaving for China.

Note this kind of thing probably happened before, and it will happen again: Loosely regulated private and state GMO research is a MAJOR risk for entire humanity - just one lab screws up due to budget cuts or while trying to 'innovate', and you can never take back what gets out of that lab.
> “Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus“

- Jerome Adams, former US Surgeon General, M.D.
You would have a point if cancer had a heart and a brain and was observed to develop into a sentient being after 9 months. Or if cancer was the result of a deliberate and voluntary action that the vast crushing majority of people older than 15 years understand its inevitable consequences.

Alas, none of that is true, and your remark can only win you a comfortable position in the mental gymnastics Olympics. And a 1st place in the moral bankruptcy competition, for comparing infants to a disease.
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So, are you suggesting that only when something directly affects them or maybe a family member, do they start to care? Otherwise, little to no empathy or compassion for those "others".
PowerPC bdnz says hi, though it is restricted to one special purpose register (CTR, the counter).
Yes, to be honest I assume that this will start a death-spiral. In that the people we want to stay (having the most hopeful combo of critical knowledge, skills, etc.) can just take a little longer to find a new job than those laid off but _will_ eventually. So then we need to replace them to even carry out the post-layoffs plan, and so then over time we drain knowledge and skills, and then it all falls apart.

That's sort of my assumption right now, but while enough are still here I plan to see if I can make it work for them.
> You could do it, too. For several thousands of dollars a month — double what the average person spends on rent for a one-bedroom in D.C. — this matchmaker will not only seek out potential soulmates with your exact criteria in mind but will do the sort of investigative work that, coming from you, would seem invasive and creepy — trawling LinkedIn for singles with degrees from prestigious universities, or NextDoor for homeowners in affluent zip codes, or LegiStorm for Congressional staffers’ bios, salaries and contact information.

These are the people running our country? Gross and creepy.
If people don't have the protection then it doesn't matter what the government does or doesn't do because those who do have power will do the same thing they always have. Shot on those who don't, that is my point
This is not a problem, `await A` is called immediately after each read, so there will be no conflict.
> I'll be the begrudging devils advocate for a decision that is sure to have devastating consequences for poor women in red states.

The devil already has 6 seats on the supreme court, he doesn't need you to advocate for him
I play most of them about halfway through because I spend too much time optimizing the initial levels, then get bored of it after a little bit.
Man, I love his writing.

> It helped in this process that I was in Japan, since I could do most work at night while my US/European customers slept or wept into their phones or whatever it is people do at night nowadays.
Game theory effects on future lab technicians, administrators and security personnel. We punish crime and criminal negligence to deter it in the future by public knowledge that it will be punished.
Distinguishing yourself as being in a separate class from someone else has nothing to do with preserving anything, that sounds like absolute nonsense to me. Its some classiest BS designed to keep the poor working class fighting each other
It certainly has one of the largest interactive XSLT codebases that use Saxon-JS: https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-js/
It's hard to prove counter-examples of companies that have had significant traction but were unable to raise money, because, well they were unable to raise money. The only alternatives are those companies who have had large amounts of traction, were unable to raise money, but ended up being successful anyways by bootstrapping or finding some alternate method. But it's not generally / necessarily true that companies that have strong, sustainable traction will outweigh everything else because the counter-examples are just not obvious. Intuitively, I can imagine that there have indeed been companies that have had great / strong traction, but have no Ivy League management team, no VC connections, no real family strength, no past history of success, and none of the other things that were described above, and thus, despite their strong traction, they were unable to raise money.
Not really - because, with Patreon you can very probably report your income as 'Patreon income', whereas with Stripe, you will need file each and every single income that enters your account because Stripe does not do that for you.
Cloud observations render Giant Watering Can theory obsolete.
We gotta, for sure right?
It's a naked short
I heard about it and I know enough about it to know that it is scarcely known. The problem is not making something that caters to a small group of users. The problem is doing it at scale.
Graph layout is just one of multiple layout modes. See here for more screenshots: https://atomgraph.github.io/LinkedDataHub/
Yes, Apple TV is making shows exclusively for the 10,000 people that use HN. Clearly that's their genius business model.
It’s not a meaningful English word though.