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Offtopic.

Something seems wrong with HN.

My newest comments don't show up under "threads".

And curiously when I click on "threads" my karma counter is a few points lower than when I click on a random comment thread.
There are two scenarios in which halving the number of droplets inhaled has little effect on the risk of being infected, and two where it is moot.

The ones where it is moot is those where either you you are already infected or no-one is.

Halving the number of droplets will have no effect if droplet inhalation is not causal in transmission. In this case, there is plenty of evidence that it is, in fact, the primary mode of transmission.

It would also be the case when, even at the lower droplet count, one is likely to become infected. This is essentially the scenario in your second point.

None of the above are the case in a typical bus ride today, and for such, it is reasonable to suppose, as a first approximation absent further evidence, that risk is correlated with the degree to which one is rebreathing other people's exhalations, even though one can postulate that it is also correlated with other factors.

One can question the source of the CO2 on a bus, but the measured values reported here are significantly above those measured by busy urban roads, where 1000ppm is considered vary high. If the bus is leaking CO2 into the cabin to any significant degree, there are more immediate health concerns.

Demanding near-perfect data before considering its implications can be a way to avoid issues.
You might want an index like this on some aggregate table. Like, shoe_sales_total, which is grouped by the id of the shop assistant that helped you with the selection. But customers that have marched straight to the till and asked for shoe polish result in records with a NULL for agent_id. With a regular unique constraint (month, agent_id), your aggregate table can end up with two records for (May-21, NULL).

Of course, the workaround for such cases is simple: have a sentinel value for unassisted sales and make the column not nullable.
I don't expect them to catch up in a time sense- to learn faster than normal. I do expect that it may take them until they are a bit older to reach the standard. Unfortunately, in many places there is no standard, and students are simply socially promoted, irrespective of any progress.
TikTok’s ADs will jeopardize rights in Europe
> Total system outage is one level, unrecoverable total system outage is even worse.

Ha, I used to suggest people consider “total failure of business” in exposure quantification...
There are even mail order services which will send you a pretty box with a pre inoculated block in it. Open the packaging, keep it under your table and check it so often, and you get tons of mushrooms. It's really fun.

The utility of this device is extremely questionable, but I can't deny that it's really pretty and a good conversation starter.
I thought people were generally pleased with Ghidra. Is this not the case?
Maybe in your country. In mine we had to suffer through all this stuff before we got old enough for it to be a meaningful reading.
Not disagreeing, but can you provide an example?
That is one of the most careful uses of "probably" that I have ever seen.
First, I don’t think anyone should be a single parent. Find a new mate asap, if you can’t there’s something deeper there. If not for you, for your children.

That said, I get it. That’s a situation where you need support and help. I also don’t view it as a “failure”, there are optimal and suboptimal situations. If you didn’t have children in a marriage and / or you divorced your spouse; that’s suboptimal and created by the parents (ie a failure). In situations where the spouse dies, society supporting them is necessary. It also isn’t a failure in the sense of any control. Ultimately though, it’s still the parents job. You can’t just ignore the responsibility, you may also not do as well as possible, even if it’s out of your control. It’s unfortunate, but life.
Since you may be on the reciving end of a self-driving-system gone awry, having them simply be better than average would be a good thing. Especially if we require them to always be better than average as they begin to proliferate.
> Hasn't Valve publicly stated that if they go out of business or something they will make all their games accessible?

Valve is currently facing a situation where a game on Steam that includes third-party DRM will completely stop working in September of this year. There's no way they'll be able to follow through on this commitment outside of their own titles.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-wont-be-able-to-redownl...
That's not how it works though. You can't skip socialisation and languages for 2-3 years and expect to just pick these thing as if you were 5 years old again.

And even if you could your second point is moot, it is a social construct but it will stay like that, so it end up being a fact of life for everyone.
The original outage wouldn't be circumvented by this however in this person's case they local Rogers resolvers or third party were probably just getting online so they were serving their local resources which is why the bigger entities were loading. So this just piggy backed into their DNS. That's was my thinking anyways.
Monads are not about sequencing. They don't force applying functions in an order, at least any more than regular function application does. Haskell does not need them, they're just an interface and don't add anything to a language you can't do without them. The order of print statements is encoded the same way the order of elements in a list is, it's part of the definition of the data type. The monad instance says IO (IO a) is "the same as" an IO a, so really any sequencing ability implied in IO (IO a) already pre-exists in IO a.
Driverless car startup lays off 150 workers
Risky, alright
DB storage is a lot more sophisticated than what you were taught.

Most databases use Slotted Pages to organize storage. Pages are fixed size and numbered by their offset within the database file. The page header contains the number of rows, followed by an array of offsets for individual rows within the page. Rows themselves generally are stored at the end of the page filling downwards. The storage engine can move around rows in arbitrary ways to consolidate free space.

Fundamentally there's no connection between SQL schema order and how table storage is organized on disk. For example in a column store there's often no contiguous row stored anywhere, instead there's just separate indexes per column.
Upnext is a nice read-later app
i think you are giving this device far too much credit to backhandedly imply that it is as groundbreaking as the introduction of cloud storage.
Why do you assume I dont?

> Alexander Dumas for example is studied in schools all over the world. Or Thomas Mann? Nikolai Gogol?

Literally none of them was even mentioned HN or elsewhere for years the way Russian writers lately are.

> Because some freaks tried to "cancell" it and it backfired.

Nah, it does not look that way at all. Also who are some freaks here and why are you calling them freaks, really?
Apple Adding First MacBook Pro with Touch Bar to Vintage Products List
vim bindings exist for IDEs as well.

You aren't always able to use an IDE.

You aren't always editing code.

You also don't have to wait on an IDE to support your language.
That was me, 20 years ago. Going to grad school after college was just automatically assumed, like going to college after high school. And why not? My parents had made a nice life for themselves, going from farms to a secure upper-middle-class existence. Seemed like a relatively low-stress occupation that provided a lot of intellectual variety.

Of course, the level of competition changed dramatically between their generation and mine. Then you could go directly from grad school to a tenure-track position and generally expect lifetime employment. Now, in the sciences, you're expected to live a nomadic life as you go from postdoc to postdoc, making less than $50k, perhaps eventually landing that coveted tenure-track. In the humanities it's even worse, where you work adjunct jobs that pay less than minimum wage.

It's no surprise that people with family money are most likely to win these contests of endurance. If you need to earn your own money, it's simply irrational to persist in the academic rat race.
That's 13.15. 3.0.0.0/8 was General Electric, now it's AWS: https://bgp.he.net/ip/3.0.0.0#_whois

That subnet had a handful of mainframes that had the same IP address for decades. When we migrated a handful of systems off those mainframes and onto what were then called "minicomputers" (heh!) they ended up in the same subnet.

Those mainframes ran the ERP system for an entire business unit. Every accounting application lived in or talked to a database in that space. Manufacturing information systems that ran assembly lines called into it. The IVR systems talked to systems in that space. Hell, public facing systems called into it (behind a thick layer of indirection :))

Basically, the systems behind that IP space were responsible for ~5 billion in annual revenue, and it was significantly cheaper to lease back those IPs from AWS, do absolutely nothing with them (in AWS), and advertise routes internally for the systems that still remain on those old IPs.
I mean, my bigger concern with facebook website is that I have a 32" monitor, and it focuses content on like the middle 5 inches.

No gridding, no sizing, no custom or alternative layouts, no nothing --> I have no control over layout, either as I browse/use it, or the layout of my page to others. I cannot easily provide photos or music or articles or links or content that I want to friends & family.

I used to be a somewhat prolific poster of content, but over last few years my engagement has dropped to basically nil - I have been dis-incentivized from creating or adding content, and have complete disinterest in consuming content on such an uncontrollable platform.

And yes, I do miss Google Plus, but that's a whole other incendiary discussion :D
It is very difficult to communicate with Kovid when you're not a user and you've not previously praised his genius. Any kind of criticism or suggestion that isn't wrapped up in the "but your project is awesome and you're awesome!!!" wrapping-paper is met with hostility, insults and banning.

It is a problem for anyone trying to communicate with him.
Nice!

But why does computer history museum provide such a low resolution photos? Seems like they limit it to 500 pixels vertically. I would love to have a closer look at them.
We don't let robbers go because there are murderers out on the streets.
In principle, I understand how this book can fail to connect with some people. I’ve encountered many “great” books that I just couldn’t read. But Anna Karenina is so damn good that it’s hard to fathom others see it differently. The writing and character development are exquisite. I can reread it endlessly, or start randomly at any page. It’s always a pleasure.
As a US citizen, I'd rather a foreign power with no jurisdiction here gobble up my data than the local jackboots with a rubberstamp judge who can execute a no-knock raid on my home whenever they feel like, predicated on dubious suspicion elicited by whatever precrime data-mining operation they're running.

China isn't going to shoot my dog at 4am and throw me in a concrete box.

And if I were a Chinese or Russian citizen, I'd be far more wary of domestic apps than US apps for precisely the same reason. Not playing favorites here, it's just a jurisdictional arbitrage question in a world dominated by tyranny.
According to some posts (https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/qhdmt2/how_does_the_k...), the Kobo will sync reading process with other Kobos for kepubs only.
Something cool that I didn't highlight since it's not the main point:

The web UI uses the OPAQUE protocol to log in/store passwords, so your password is never sent to the server (it instead stores just enough information for you to provide a cryptographic zero-knowledge proof that you have the correct password).
It's a bit undermined by the fact that LDAP binds use plaintext passwords, but I thought it would be cool to implement :)
$282 + $12/pod to grow fungus. Assuming you're going to use it legally, you won't have a positive ROI.
Nope. No one. Everyone uses cloud nowadays.
Come on. I’ve been to many, many small grocery stores in Western Europe.

Some had obviously old/dirty fixtures, signage, and floors, some had newer cleaner looking equipment. The average in Europe was much, much “dirtier” than Americans on average will put up with.

“Dirty” in this context means not-new-looking.

I’d much rather not pay for someone to replace things that are perfectly functional.

But many consumers (especially Americans) prefer extremely well lit, very new looking equipment.

So I think you may have this exactly wrong. Europe has much dirtier stores, because it doesn’t value cosmetic polish as much as health and cost savings.
With the successes of F-22/F-35, PAC/Patriot and HIMARS/M270 (each is an obvious top of the shelf product in its category) - is Lockheed now going after Boeing's professional flight simulator supremacy?
first, i'd just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich which is much much shorter.

after reading that if you feel like reading tolstoy is something you want to do a whole lot more of, then pick up Anna Karenina or War and Peace. I've read both, because i enjoy reading Tolstoy, but i would not recommend reading them if you do not enjoy the process. there are plenty of other great literary works out there (and most of them are shorter).
Contamination mostly happening in the inoculation phase and this is just a fruiting chamber, does not help with that. You can also do the whole fruiting phase in a plastic bag with the help of a water spray.
Can't you just revert or undo just about anything in notion, Google docs, etc?
Wait... so you need a USA visa just to fly a route that goes via the USA, even if you never leave the airport?

That seems... suboptimal.

All it takes is a corridor from arrivals to departures to allow people to leave again on a different plane out of the country.
I'm not sure, I saw both the series and the movies.
> Restrictions on what I can say

Academia isn't perfect and it sure isn't what it once was. But go ahead and talk crap about your corporate employer for the next six months and see what happens to you.
https://archive.ph/RlmJA
TIL the original author of GNU arch shared my name and was born in the same state as me!
That's a fair but, but is a drastically different story than what the headline implies.

"Internal messages indicate that Binance might have turned a blind eye to Iranians using VPNs (and later banned them)" is a much weaker claim than "Binance continued serving Iranians despite sanctions"

As I mentioned in a different comment, the headline might be technically true, and there's definitely a story, but the headline paints a drastically different picture than the article. Almost every line of "we found someone in Iran who had gotten in" is followed by "they got banned later"
What? A brand new account with two karma comes in and asks if a much older account with a ton of karma is a bot? Please come back when you have something useful to contribute to the discussion.
It can catch newcomers off guard. People think they write -

do
a x
b x

in Haskell and that means the same as a sequential program (a runs before b). But this is not necessarily the case. It does not imply an order. It will only do so if the statements are dependent on each other -

do
c <- a x
b c
I see Day-0, Day-1, Day-2 etc. used in the context of business planning quite frequently.
Not as featureful, but https://mbasic.facebook.com is an HTML-only version that works okay-ish for scrolling. (Though, no messaging is the biggest omission of mbasic if that is why you want Facebook for.)
What other structure is there? All knowledge and skill is based off of more basic knowledge and skills. If someone doesn't have a grasp of simple addition, calculus isn't going to make much sense. That's true at the lowest levels and the highest levels.

Now if you're arguing that the way we test if someone is ready for the next level of a given field is done poorly, that's different and there could be a strong case for it depending on the field and school.
Try a tutorial written in a language you understand well that does not routinely feature monads.

IME the biggest hurdle is convincing yourself you've actually understood them, because they seem so mundane that it's weird they even have a name.
I'm not talking about the security incident. Anyone can have bad days, I am not the one to hold the grudge.

What I've experienced is that Kovid is consistently hostile to anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest. There is no attempt to shine light on the argument or defuse the situation whatsoever - it always ends with comments like "what do you want from me? you get this project for free! if you don't like it nobody is forcing you to use it! get off my lawn!!!".

Of course, the guy has the right to talk to anyone any way he wants.

But I also have the right to publicly call him out on that.
There is a contrasting beauty of prose in Marquez, though, in spite of war being a common theme. Maybe because of environment: 19-century Russia seems raw and cold, whereas Marquez's Latin America is warm and colorful, and of course magic realism adds another level of aesthetics.
I went to a merit admissions high school, and as a teenager I’d say stuff like “there are too many Asian nerds here, we should get rid of the admissions tests!” to be edgy. (I was obviously joking—I was an Asian nerd who got in on standardized testing.)

In recent years I’ve been shocked to learn how many “nice” liberals basically agree with such statements, except unironically.
Stack Exchange sites are getting prettier faster: Introducing Themes
Ask HN: How do you deal with managers/customers questioning your estimates?
I suppose my own context is somewhat unique, in that we have a very technical product that's used by other technical products. This means our customers are all effectively engineers. Some of these customers even used to work on our product.

Whenever we tell them, for example, the team has estimated it'll take X weeks to do something, we continuously get pushback of: "Why would it possibly take so long? All you have to do is A, B and C!" (often providing incorrect solutions, increasing the burden of having to explain all possible implementation strategies to them and the risks involved with each step)

I've also experienced this in previous companies where managers, who used to be technical, do the same thing.

To me this is insanely disrespectful of the team, and it seems as though it's a boundary violation on some level.

Has anyone found a healthy, emotionally mature response to this line of questioning? Ideally one that results in the customer understanding that they're crossing a boundary of sorts here.

In an ideal world I'd much prefer to not have to give estimates in the first place, and rather involve our customers more frequently in our development process to help them see the progress. It's hard, however, to convince them of the value in this approach.
If you enjoy classic Russian films, many of the Soviet era are available on YouTube including Stalker, Come and See and other unusual classics.
Random notes around service workers development and testing
The paucity of projects in the US is because about 50% of your electricity comes from natural gas. If it's very cheap (and it was) and you dont care about CO2 (& the US doesnt) it renders most kinds of storage fairly pointless.

Pretty much the only place without suitable geography in the US for pumped storage is Florida.

In Europe hydropower in the alps is already being used as a giant battery.
> Washington State and Chicago are terrible locations for solar, but moving electricity is surprisingly cheap. https://blog.solarenergymaps.com/2014/05/potential-solar-ene...

Your link doesn’t support your claim that moving energy is surprisingly cheap. I’m of the impression that this isn’t the case (we can’t easily build transmission lines that can carry the necessary amount of power from the southwest to other parts of the country).
Still in for life without parole.
Watches are jewelry for men, like a tiara for women. It is pure status signaling.
Facebook works great for on my weak Thinkpad. Must be something on your end.

Twitter on the other hand is awful with long load times and heavy resource usage.

Sometimes I'm forced to use an alternative frontend like Nitter to browse tweets.

Javascript was probably invented by Satan.
To me, disliking greedy corporations and bad management isn't very connected to the method of delivery of products. Frequent and often automatic updates just represent that delivery method.

In contrast to your bank, my bank's website has added numerous improvements and modernizations that have made it easier, more useful, and less frustrating. Perhaps it's just time to switch banks?

There are plenty examples of badly managed products in the pre-SaaS era. If you bought Windows Me, it shipped as a terrible product and it never got better. As soon as you opened the shrink wrap you had no recourse but to wait for Windows XP to fix those problems.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City featured a bug where saving at the ice cream factory was very likely to corrupt your save. The PS2 had no ability to apply patches or updates to games, so you were just stuck with the software that way forever.

So, you "agreed to purchase it in a certain shape and form" – but just like any other product you never truly know what you get until you made the purchase.
There's https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse which works pretty well. (See eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWftkTq1XU).
Fintech Wallet in 10 Minutes
They all lied. Surprise surprise.
It absolutely is meaningless. Why would I assume that cannabinoids are 'soft' and cocaine base is 'hard'? Apart from the fact that the word 'hard' is literal slang for crack while 'soft' is slang for powder cocaine in the salt form

The terms are meaningless to me, I have no reasonable way of classifying anything into those categories because the categories literally have no meaning
> real profits of the company, either through dividends or buybacks.

The majority of my profits in the stock market have been through asset appreciation. Just take S&P500, a very widely invested in fund - the average dividend yield is 4% while the average return is 12% - which means for that very common stock the majority of the profit came from appreciation.

This doesn't address buybacks, which is a pointless variable as buybacks are nothing more than "new investments" coming in to buy the exact same stock at a different price.
Apollo.app on apple silicon macs to the rescue.
Yeah, that was a book adaptation.
> The day old.reddit.com disappears is the day I stop browsing Reddit on desktop

I know threats like this are cliche, especially about UI refreshes of long-loved web sites, but this one rings true for me. Like Facebook, I'll miss some of the content, but at a certain point the experience isn't worth it.
The interesting thing is that knowing these facts has no correlation with whether you are a good biologist.

Real biology involves designing clever wet lab experiments, analysing data to predict new phenomenon, then following up with more experiments.

Nothing in real life biology relies on knowing a huge amount of facts. You just look it up on google.

What makes biology hard to teach is that there are no principles. So teacher can just point to experimental results and ask students to memorise those results. Real biology is about saying the textbooks are all wrong and here is how it really works.
I find it interesting the US is talking about the value, or lack thereof, of mask use among K-12 students.

In my country, the concern wasn't transmission among K-12 students, who are at lower risk, but instead, transmission from K-12 students to adults who were at higher risk of hospitalization and/or death.