jfrankamp

Fireflies solve this problem with only local knowledge... maybe a variation of the problem that attacks/constrains it in a similar way?

No actually required :-). I didn't say masks were not effective, I said part of their effectiveness is the making-conscious of transmission vectors. E.g. when you wear a mask and see others do it you are more likely to wash your hands or stand back.

When you wear a mask (as I do) in addition to blocking some particles you signal to others "lets play the not kill eachother game by limiting virus vectors!"

You were told correctly?

Brad Little of Idaho says greater than 98% of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are unvaccinated (link below).

Cases are probably the most unstable of those stats, but the point is unvaccinated folks are bearing the majority of the pain.

https://twitter.com/GovernorLittle/status/142593002008663654...

Both have theater aspects and let me propose something: that's good.

When you approach airport security (theater) you wonder what their capabilities are _today_. Are they sniffing the air at large with their GCMS? Is there going to be a dog today? Its intimidating to think of it as a theoretical attacker because of its large and multifaceted apparatus, which is part of its deterrent power.

Masks are somewhat similar, they have a vanishingly small chance of actually intercepting a virus particle/droplet that was going to infect you on a case by case basis BUT they make people approach you differently. They say "stand back".

I'm arguing though that due to the conflict of interest, it should be at least one level up IRT purchasing, access to interpretive/raw data, and decision making on which of that data they want to share etc. Remove funding and responsibility from the police to run this system/vendor, and move it into the "office of public data accountability" e.g. which can serve its data equally to the public, watchdog groups and the police.

Right. Shotspotter or the generic equiv should be purchased by the city, not the police. The data (raw and interpreted) should be managed in the public, as its a public interest to know about firearms (including the police's) being discharged.

This isn't a tutorial, nor a training, nor a course though, this is a cave exploration. Its going down the wrong paths, multiple times on purpose. So pack your bag, get your tools in order, we may not return. I really like this style, the wrong paths/side tracks have so much to teach us (more than the right paths).

Agree, I think the smart move for SpaceX is to stay ahead of it by offering/working out/subsidizing assembly line style space telescope production and launch w/ benefits to impacted astronomy programs.

I mean imagine if you just enabled a high quality ~cell phone camera in each direction on the existing starlink array etc. Or what if starlink specified a parasite satellite slot that they sold e.g. you can put up x mini sats embedded and facing space with network and power port. It lasts as long as the node lasts, put up a lot and don't complain.

Ok so putting this all together, if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about. Am I reading that right?

If so the best way to have a phone that doesn't leak is to have a home network that does... maybe?

I've found density laws wildly accepted, its a building boom in Newberg as people add ADU's and more housing. I don't know where you get your information, but if you own a home in a growth boundary in a small town in Oregon, its "Lets build an ADU" time like never before.

Does anyone know if the glib answer works? Does the steering column selector stalk go through the ui (and therefore is interceptable by the supposedly compromised interface) or is it directly connected to the 'backend' below?

Calling the critical ui interface the 'infotainment' system for a tesla is slightly misleading.

If you have a knee jerk reaction because you think math/science is pure, remember that it is always interpreted in a teaching context.

Example from my life: We mentor a black girl in high school physics. The Physics teacher misinterpreted her age assuming she was a 3rd or 4th year (which is a common culturual/racial gap, not intentional but structural!) when she is a freshman. The teacher in consequence also misintepreted where she 'should' be at in her ability to manage school life, homework, comprehension etc.

After he learned his mistake he reframed his perception of the students efforts at learning, and was able to teach her. She successfully passed that class trying again after narrowly failing the first time.

Recent research has swung the state child welfare policy pendulum back toward this thesis in my state (Oregon) and a few others I'm aware of., e.g. if the situation isn't totally irredeemable, bio fam is the best in terms of average outcome.

Folks attempting to adopt older kids have a higher 'return' rate than when adopting babies. E.g. If an older kid decides to physically fight you for control, many parents will quickly run out of options, emotional reserves etc. It is undesirable to rush through an adoption in that case, years are warranted. (first hand experience w/ multiple foster/adopted teenagers + failed adoptions).

I can answer this, also fostered then adopted a teenager. It actually does not help the kid, its the worst thing that could happen to them except all of the alternatives. Being placed in a foster home is trauma. Getting separated from their bio family is trauma. Continuing to be physically abused (in their bio fam) is unacceptable trauma. Extended family was also a bust and resulted in more physical abuse.

Changing time is less expensive than billions of schedules. Noon at solar noon is already broken for so many people, I'm not sure it matters if its off a little more. I do find both equally arbitrary though.

If twitter was hoarding ip addresses so that parlor couldn't be hosted, or somehow preventing competitors from entering the space... ? I just don't see it. DT could put together one of the most popular websites on the internet in a day or two if he put a single user microblog up. All the media would eat it up. Better pick a swiss host though!

I can access whitehouse.gov (or sci hub). The former is there explicitly to communicate the to the public the ideas and words of the occupant of the White House. Why do people keep saying monopoly when there are clear alternatives that aren't moderated through a private site/service?

Yesterday my wife and kid were trying to go for a walk in the neighborhood before the light ended and the sun set. My work expects me to be callable until 5. I sent them out without me at 4, the sun sets here around 4:30. I never left the house. I would pay actual money to get that hour back and be on DST year round.

I would be interested to see if the split of opinion on this has to do with early risers/night owl orientation primarily, for me more light earlier has almost no value, but light at the end of the work day is worth a lot.

Wolverton understood these issues, his later designs centered around driving air past plants root systems to increase their uptake by orders of magnitude. Of course it is a myth that any normal houseplant is going to make a big difference, but I'm not so sure about a fan/roots system enhanced version.

One other modification was to include activated carbon, which muddies the water a bit but the idea generally speaking is that the bacterial colonies that are managed/symbiotes of the root system can assist with the uptake of VOCs. Activated carbon was supposed to be a temporary sink while that process takes place.

Now a fan enhanced plant that survives the airflow required is not trivial, and not what people think of when they think "this plant will help my house" but its not so simple as "this whole idea is stupid". The original and follow-on research is more interesting to me than the 'debunks' which are lazy in that they just take the easy case (add plants to clean your air!) and refute it.

The most amazing thing that some of the original research shows is that the bacterial colonies get _better_ at consuming household vocs, implication that the food source shapes those colonies specifics.

I'm not totally convinced, but I think its more interesting than the debunk articles allow for. I think it needs more study.

Agree, this report isn't designed to shock readers, of course (multiple people posting sarcastic/non shock) already expected it. Its almost as if it had to be written to shock people on this thread in order to be accepted, which brings us full circle.

I enjoyed the report not because it shocked me but because it outlined its methodology, it showed clear examples, and it points to a growing trend. It makes me wonder where these things go next, it feels like squeezing a lemon. Sure if you get a hydraulic press you'll get a bit more out. Then you've destroyed the entire communication channel.

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Do you read eligible as "getting"?

Statistical knowledge isn't present in the vast majority of these folks.

This seems like a key moment to... cite data? Since you are broadly making pseudo-mathy sounding claims while complaining that others aren't as mathematically/statistically/factually rigorous as 'people on HN'.

I hear that. Months from now would be better than now if as you say it derails better and more urgent conversations.

I think some people like myself see the current issue as an iceberg like problem. Systemic racism is composed of many tiny parts. This is not an either/or question, but a yes/and one. You can both not want to be killed and care about the casual and lazy use of language. We can as technologists, change this without stopping work on police reform for example. The defensiveness/resistance to change is much more interesting to me.

As for signalling, Sure we don't need to advertise it to ourselves and give accolades for something so simple. But we can do the bit and move on. I guess a lot of people are in love with the idea that if doing something is good then it must be being done in order to be _seen_ as doing good. That is bullshit unless you happen to know intent.

I'll add my use case: we use hosted kubernetes to deploy all of our branches of all of our projects as fully functional application _stacks_, extremely similarly to how they will eventually run in production. Want to try something and show it to someone in the product owner level? Ok there will be a kube nginx-ingress backed environment up in build-time + a few minutes.

The environments advertise themselves via that same modified ingress's default backend. We stick a tiny bit of deploy yaml in our projects, the deployments kube tagging gives us all the details we need to provide diffs, last build time, links to git repos, web sites etc for the particular environment. The yaml demonstrates conclusively how an app could or should be run, regardless of os or software choice, so when we hand it to ops folks there is a basis for them to run from.

I built a sketch of a game with unity

(A/D keyboard, left right taps on mobile)

http://countdown.joshuafrankamp.com.s3-website-us-east-1.ama...

This might look familiar to anyone who has seen this set of unity tutorials. I watched the first ~6 back to back and then attempted to rebuild a version of it all from memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3j...

All signatories of the Paris accord. All are nominally thought to be rapidly transforming their economies in response to an existential crisis.

"including high polluters such as China, the US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Indonesia and Mexico, which generate more than half the world's greenhouse gas emissions, will somehow drive down their carbon pollution voluntarily and assiduously without any binding enforcement mechanism"

What is the binding enforcement mechanism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

Targeting unoccupied fossil fuel infrastructure on an announced schedule is indiscriminate? War crimes for killing an oil derrick?

That is fascinating to me. We know the Paris accord cannot work without enforcement. It is economically disadvantageous to go first. As I said, it will never happen. We don't take the threat seriously, we don't believe it is an existential threat.

The United States military could best be used to fight this by destroying (with warning) global fossil fuel infrastructure that wasn't voluntarily closed, bit by bit with a decade long schedule. The announcement alone would prompt a massive shift in energy production, use, investment etc. Our own legacy infrastructure would also have to be on the list. Call it a Paris accord with teeth.

It will never happen, because collectively we don't believe the cost of climate change is greater than the cost of leveling the landscape of incentives to reduce emissions + reducing emissions. The US could unilaterally leverage its remaining military lead to enact global change.