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Not much happened " intellectually and culturally" after the said event!! Modern science was started with the likes of Galileo and Copernicus, was crystallized at the time of Newton and some great improvements happened in the 19th century and very early decades of the 20th. I think the impact of the steam engine and the discovery/development of vaccines in the 18th century are much more impactful than anything humans did after the Manhattan project, apart, maybe, from artificial fertilizers (Oh that was developed before the great war). Planes, cars, sliced bread all came before!!! There is only one exception, computers but these haven't done much to add to mankind happiness. They replaced fax machines and are trying to replace phones helped spread pornography and rage, but so far their effect on humanity is marginal compared to the steam engine or even sliced bread.
Americans don't carry around checkbooks. They carry around credit or bank cards.
The Virgin Islands of the United States entered the chat.
Do you really need jQuery though? Pure JavaScript is viable these days.
> Tornado damages Pfizer plant, may cause “long-term shortages” of medicine

Pfizer just saw that increasing prizes because "shortages" is a good way to bust profits. And thanks to paying politicians there is no end in sight.
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Actually I consider that by far the most valuable theoretical advance due to Einstein is the concept of stimulated emission, besides spontaneous emission and absorption, which has lead to the development of masers, lasers, atomic clocks and many other related devices, which have become an indispensable part of modern life.

This is also one of few of his works, together with the general relativity theory that he published around the same time during WWI, where he introduced new mathematical relationships between physical quantities, instead of just giving new interpretations to relationships already found by others.
In fact no. The parent comment is right in emphasizing the "exposure to concentrations equivalent to accumulations over several days and sources".

So while your point 1. is technically true, it comes with the caveat of heavy concentrations.

We know of thousands of "factors" that become dangerous or toxic in big concentrations but are innocuous or even beneficial in small doses. I'm not saying that plastic is either of these but to leave out the dose concentration is clearly misrepresenting from your part.

So I don't know if you haven't read the article till the end (because this caveat of the concentration comes later after the sensational part you emphasized) or you are purposely trying to mislead others.

The discrepancy of their result ("three-quarters of cultured embryonic kidney cells had died") with reality also clearly points to something very wrong with this study. That high level of cell mortality is not observed anywhere in reality.
I'm impressed by the bad math on display here - 100 miles by 100 miles is 10,000 square miles, or about seven times the size of Rhode Island, not a tenth... Though it would still only be a tenth of Nevada, which is one of the prime states to cover, and there's already major solar installations.
I like some things reasonably smart (boiler, ventilation), devices that learn from the occupant’s behaviour in order to be more economical with energy for instance. I'm not a fan of other "smart" tech, like lights, stoves, ovens, fridges, etc.
may be it's to avoid search engines to not scrape these threads?
Wikipedia isn't the right source for "the sense of deep belief", it's far too dry and factual for that.

The Rosenbergs were known as believers in Communism.
It's great to see other languages take inspiration from Ecto which makes query composition extremely simple.

To the author, It would be nice to see examples of more complex queries, e.g. composition by conditionally applying filters, aggregates, joins.
Thanks for the analysis. I think you're still underestimating costs (e.g. didn't count bandwith, no AZ standby for your database, or backups etc.) and time spent, not only in the setup but especially in maintenance (security fixes, AWS agent updates, OS updates, package updates, figuring out why an instance ran out of disk etc. etc.) Not counting you have to setup and maintain your deployment system which can range from scripts to K8s.

Also I have used Terraform to set up quite a few resources and it's only overhead in a small project.

I just wanna git push and see my changes published a minute later. I don't think Render is gonna take more than 10 mins to figure out https://render.com/docs/deploy-rails-sidekiq
I don't really want to say bad things about someone I respect who just died, but the fact of the matter is that Kevin (especially when he was younger—he mellowed out later) really could be menacing. Combined with the compulsiveness of his nature, that could be unpleasant. It was as if he could not stop hacking and messing with people.
I think one of the biggest issues in society today is that so much is changing so quickly, on a species level scale, that it's phenomenally difficult to isolate cause and effect for any thing that requires more than a 6 month controlled trial to show up on. It's not like you can just do an observational study on families of children who were not exposed to microplastics vs those who were, because the former group doesn't exist. And even if it did, what if the effect is something like leaded fuel, where it's only really measurable, and indirectly at that on a population level sample, decades after exposure?

Just think about how absurdly much has changed in the past 30 years in terms of consumption and lifestyle. Trying to figure out what might even possibly be causing something is just going to leave you with an endless series of "The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between [a] and [b]."
This is some top grade dissertation procrastination.
Yep, this just gives them the tools when they go full fascist. For example the USA had a recent coup attempt, and that same person attempting the coup will be running again for president and there is a non-zero chance that he will win. He has openly stated that he wanted to "reform" the government and install only loyalists, that is the type of regime you don't want to have instant access to all communications.
I guess what OP is getting at is that these providers stick to the battle tested proven bedrock and nothing like "run your app where your users are" which I find interesting because that too can be done with any cloud that has a Datacenter in the region where you happen to have users.

So this "closer to your users" voodoo is a little beyond me.
It is also small: among many equally important masterpieces at the Louvre, it is one of the most portable, making it a good option if you are deciding what to steal.
You misunderstood my comment.

I'm not saying anything about what behavior is "acceptable" or endorsing anything. I'm saying that people and animals have been acting that way for a very long time. Tolerance for strangers is more in need of sociological explanation than the opposite. Certainly, the trend towards tolerance exists and is rising over the course of history, which I very much like. It's about asking what the default state is from which society makes "progress".

Or are you disputing the historical claim that humans on average have never been more tolerant towards strangers than today?
There is a lit context package in lit-labs, which, like React context, can be used for passing the state across multiple layers of components; but I think that, just like with React context, it will not be sufficient if you have a lot of global state. In such a case, some state management library will probably be needed. I don't think Lit has any opinion on what such a library should be. I know some people like to leverage the web platform to its fullest, and just use a class that extends EventTarget for state management (see e.g. https://github.com/thepassle/app-tools/blob/master/state/ind...)
Difficult to read and lacks a page layout for printing. It should've used font and style variations for placeholders rather than nonstandard and annoying characters like < >.
The way I see it, when Apple, Nvidia, AMD etc, nickel and dime you every step of the way and put pressure on you to lower your costs, semi manufacturing is relatively low margin enough to not be profitable on US soil, compliant to US environmental laws, done by US workers on US working conditions, earning US wages competitive to other US skilled industries.

Therefore chips made in the US would not be nearly as profitable as the ones made in Taiwan therefore it makes no financial sense for TSMC to invest in the US other than for geopolitics.

So I have no idea how TSMC in the US could ever be profitable without big handouts from the US government.
You might be right, but in light of this whole disaster it doesn’t sound too convincing and doesn’t make your company look good.
Cognitive Artifacts (complementary and competitive) (2017)
Hourly billing allows that flexibility.
There's no legal limit, but lower power will help the heat even out better, so go for it.

Are you comparing those meats to other ways of heating that don't get the surface particularly hot?
That's like the main selling point of Fly.
It looks like Fly.io is just not a solid choice for cloud services.

See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229751
For board games, the shipping cost is often significant enough that it's better for the publisher to just let you keep the game than it is to pay for it to be shipped back.
Oh yeah I even forgot about the free tier
You can give all the space battles to the Soviets, the war was lost by them though lol.
Yeah, this is one of those cases where I think it's better to take the cautious route. Now that we know we're ingesting massive amounts of plastics and it's been found in every human organ, and in blood, and in breast milk, etc I think it's probably a good idea to take what steps we can to cut down on it until things are more clear about the harms.

Avoiding this exposure will be easy for me, because I was never very comfortable microwaving plastic. I've seen companies lie about their stuff being "microwave safe" too many times.

I thought cast iron would be too much work and got a decent carbon steel pan to replace the non-stick crap I was always replacing, and I don't mind the extra care. I'm not sure that cast iron would take any more effort than what I'm doing now.
They certainly don't only have a single machine in SYD since I have a bunch of machines running in SYD that we're impacted by this one.
For people looking for alternatives, what are some suggestions? Is MRSK with Hetzner good?

AWS is way too expensive and complex nowadays. I can’t stand the amount of terminology they invented just to deploy a website and database.
Are you implying the Internet is a result of competition? It's not; it's origins are a government project.

The competition part is what's ruining the Web.
A mid-life crisis is not necessarily a bad thing!! It's probably one of the most important spiritual experiences a person can have. We are told that Mohammed used to spend long times in the Hiraa cave kinda meditating or thinking about things that are not part of ordinary life.. Somebody with midlife crisis is one who has questions and searching for answers! They are asking: "Who am I? What am I doing in this world!?"
> what happens when you 'think' about something?

I have aphantasia. There’s no great mystery here, it’s probably the same way you ‘think’ just without the pictures. I think about abstract algebra and car engines in the same way.
Not JR Dev myself but saw a couple when hiring. Here was the standard template content:

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I haven't met anyone that has read Einstein's papers and things of him as something but a super genius.

Obviously his work is based on the result of others, you could make that claim for 100% of scientists and mathematicians.

Not only was relativity a mind blowing thing that he clearly saw through, there's the massive leap to general relativity, then there's the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, the mass energy equivalence, Bose-Einstein condensate, the cosmological constant and even his work on quantum entanglement. Any of which would make a physicist very famous. For one single person to come up with so many ideas, is almost unbelievable.
Yes.

HtDP more so. It builds a thinking and problem solving framework for your mind. That is recursive thinking based on the data structure.

Once you can think that way you can code in any programming language with its niche syntax or constructs.
Timestamps should probably never be used as a "unique" id.
It's an article in English, being discussed in English.
From Feynman`s biography, on trying to separate the isotopes of uranium:

> It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men (Oppenheimer, Compton, Tolman, Smyth, Urey, and Rabi) could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other fella said, so that, at the end, the decision is made as to which idea was the best - summing it all up - without having to say it three times. These were very great men indeed.
I'd rather take this response and see that they're working on it than "Oopsie poopsie, our machine elves have messed up!" or corporate newspeak saying nothing.
But HN is not a customer service forum ?
Do not miss out on the man’s homepage either, it contains plenty of his work:

https://www.rogerdean.com

It even has some fascinating architecture on it; he also has some decent testimonials.
Web components are already built into the browser. Lit is like a wrapper around those.
After some time, even Orwell becomes obsolete.
> I am very skeptical about the concept of aphantasia.

> Also, it is near impossible to report objectively about your inner processes in a useful way.

I agree that discussing our mental/inner processes is difficult due to a lack of a common frame of reference on which to base descriptions. (I'm reminded of McCoy and Spock's conversation in Star Trek IV... "Are you telling me I'd have to die to discuss your experience of death with you?")

I (approx. 40 years old) became aware of the concept of aphantasia about three years ago. I immediately identified with it... or rather, I immediately found it mind-boggling that other people claim to experience anything close to "seeing" something by closing their eyes and thinking about it. That's such a foreign concept to me I had always assumed people's descriptions of visualizing things in their mind, daydreaming, etc were extremely metaphorical, not describing a process that is anything like "seeing" something.

I have talked to many friends at length about how they describe their "mind's eye" after realizing I was probably different. And even how it extends, in the case of some of my friends with particularly visual mind's eyes, to the "mind's ears" and "mind's nose" in music and scent recall.

Based on my friends' descriptions to me of how they try to describe how they experience mental visualization, it's clear the capability is a spectrum... some describe it as blurry gray image of what they're thinking about, some describe it as being a picture as real as a photograph that they can literally see and smell.

I agree with you that it's hard to tell how reliable the descriptions are relative to each other, but I can tell you this: hearing all of themselves describe it, even down at the "it's just a blurry gray 'image' in my mind" end of the spectrum, none of them sounded familiar to me or like any kind of "visualization" I've ever experienced while awake (specifically: none at all). If it were simply a matter of being able to accurately report objectively on our inner processes in a useful way, I feel like there wouldn't be such a clear divide between the way a minority of people (allegedly with aphantasia) describe it and the way the majority of people describe it. Whether it's aphantasia or not, it's clear to me at this point that there is definitely a "group A" and "group B" in terms of how people describe their "mind's eye" when asked.

Related, I also have a friend who says she has no internal monologue, another phenomenon I've read about. She thinks entirely visually. Not having an inner monologue is such an incomprehensible concept to me; literally the only way I can think is with my inner monologue.

Brains are weird.
There's a sweet spot of early startup or side project where you don't have the time, budget or people to manually set up and maintain servers on your own or deal with the complexity and cost of Kubernetes or AWS, especially when your focus is on building the product and acquiring customers.

Heroku (before its inevitable enshittification under Salesforce) was great for this use case. Sure you will outgrow it at some point, and it did get expensive, but when you just want to throw up an MVP with minimum fuss and maintenance you could do much worse.
No he doesn’t. You can see his response to this here - seems pretty reasonable to me. [0]

>I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews.

He was intentionally mis-quoted to smear his character. It wasn’t the first time either and it won’t be the last. Funny thing is, these cheap shots only serve to discredit those who espouse them and lead more people to listen to the man in his own words instead of through the approved narrative filter of the mainstream media.

[0] https://twitter.com/robertkennedyjr/status/16802273225096355...
Whewf, I had no idea-- thanks for putting this out there. FWIW Tanacrul doesn't seem involved, and I for one grant him the benefit of the doubt regarding the views of his employers; He wouldn't be the first person to have critisisms of "the culture at work". I would appreciate any statements he's made on the matter (or that the company's made since), as it's not cool to support this kind of culture by not speaking out, instigating/participating in change, or seeking alternative employment (each of which may or may not be possible or neccessary, depending on the current situation).

I presume that nothing has come of this for those involved (or GPL'ing the mobile app?), but didn't finish the thread or otherwise dig further.
That's a good point, I hadn't considered the limits of GPT's memory.
I would say that after a century of continuous successes, the theory of atoms was very well accepted by everyone.

The matter of the existence of the atoms has become pretty much settled in 1865, when Johann Josef Loschmidt was the first who determined the size and mass of the atoms, and then his results were well used by others, like Maxwell and Stoney (who determined the electric charge of the atoms).

Nevertheless, the improved theory due to Einstein has lead to more precise results about the atom properties.
Honesty would be more impressed if marking the thread private was intentional to take focus off their falling asleep at the wheel.

At least that would have indicated some competent leadership.
Every shop demand a return to ass-in-seat mentality must lose my resume now.

I've also seen companies do this passive-aggressively to push away talent in hopes they won't have to layoff as many people and pay severance. They're just footgunning themselves by pushing away said and future talent who won't want to work for them. Hard pass.
Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences
If you need unique nanosecond, keep track of the previously generated one and increase it if necessary. Would require global lock or atomic stuff, but should be good enough for practical uses.
How does one attach money to an email?
Not only did detractors flag away my previous response that agreed with your point about how V delivers, but based on their MO (preoccupation with 2019, same catch phrases, and constantly spamming the same certain sites), it's likely the same group and their dedicated accounts for such purposes. They are trying very hard to push a negative narrative and eliminate the public viewing of any counter or supportive arguments.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-this-must-rejec...

"I was not truly in the dark for a week. My smart home runs mostly locally and Alexa really is just a polymorphic interface. I was just able to use Siri."

Even at that the only thing turned off was his Amazon Echo.

Initial reporting on this story, especially the right-wing press, made it out like he was physically locked out of him home, or his appliances were remotely disabled. Neither is at all accurate.
I was going to post about "use a UUID", but I was surprised to learn that no UUID uses both timestamp + a random component. You can either get fully random with UUID4, or have a time + MAC based UUID with UUID1. Strange, I would have thought there would exist a UUID that uses time + random to minimize collisions like described in the post.
Should losing a single host machine be a big deal nowadays? Instance failure is a fact of life.

Even if customers are only running one instance, I would expect the whole thing to rebalance in an automated way especially with fly.io being so container centric.

It also sounds like this is some managed Postgres service rather than users running only one instance of their container, so it’s even more reasonable to expect resilience to host failure?
Ask HN: What are some low cost payment processing alternatives to Stripe?
I'm looking to process ~20k transactions a month with an average ticket size of $15 per transaction. Would ISOs(Independent sales organizations) with sponsor banks be good options to consider?
For someone so deeply into typography, they sure seem to have trouble distinguishing a single open quote (‘) from a grave accent (`).
Don't forget 4: Bold assertions that this couldn't possibly happen in our corporate 'topia followed by silence after the non-apology by the company that did it.
They do have an EU Central region (see [1]) but "it is not possible to have multiple regions under one account" - you need an account in each region (although it seems you can maybe fudge around with groups to emulate multi-region access.)

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034798433-Ca...
We are seeing a steady increase in childhood cancer [0] and our male population now has half the sperm count the same population had in 70s [1].

[0]: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/3/incidence-childhoo...

[1]: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-are-male-testo...
> So this is a big blog ranting about something to then sell you something else. Distasteful...

I went through the curriculum, it was interesting. Are there any books which teach the same?
My needs are usually secondary to the library's dependencies.

I'm more than happy writing vanilla JS for my own event handlers and components. I don't mind adding a small library like alpine either to make the click handlers etc easier to write.
I just think they are pretty to look at while coding. I have to stare at code for long stretches of time. It's easier to do so when things are aesthetically pleasing.

I guess looking at font that doesn't support ligatures does become a little bit harder, but I can't imagine the switch being too time consuming.

I've been using JetBrains Mono for years now. It's great.
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