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All of this stuff is in service of getting the job done. If people can't usefully collaborate with other people because they literally never developed adult social skills (not uncommon in the tech world), then they're not going to be good contributors or collaborators. They won't know how to constructively criticize others, or take constructive criticism, they won't learn from their mistakes, and they might not even learn the right lessons from others' mistakes. The organization as a whole suffers, which is a lot worse than any individual not getting what they want.
The article prominently cites the fact that the 20-40 yr old population had not been exposed to H1N1 and thus their immune system was not primed to fight it.

I wonder, then, if we are better equipped today because of increased globalization as well as widespread use of flu vaccines. Virus strains can fly all over the world easier than they could 100 years ago, so there is more 'mixing'. At the same time, we are getting a flu shot every year with the current batch of popular strains. By the time we reach the age of 20, we have likely been exposed to most subtypes of Influenza.
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I'm with you on this. It's similar to how every x86_64 OS guide goes through the ancient ritual of working your way up to long mode. Why not just use UEFI?
True. Wagons were the only reference I could find. I had researched this and seriously considered applying to YC with a idea for mailorder-homes that could be move-in ready in 7 days. Not DIY but DI4U (Do it 4 U) and done with mostly aircrete and steel. Its actually quite easy due to the advances in material tech and equipment.

Prototyping was engineering heavy and costly and ended up back in India due to Visa issues :-( . Used the money to validate another startup. Turns out it is easier to sell ads than build houses.
I used to think that, however I would like to point out that Keynes did believe that the gold standard was necessary. What we have in economics now are Neo-Keynesians, who perhaps can be said to have hijacked Keynes.
Well I don't have the money now so I am sitting and waiting anyway. :D

I will keep watching and observing. Last I read, the latest Mac Pro is noisier than the iMac Pro which you have to fully load all its CPU cores and both videocards to even hear. To me the [lack of] noise is extremely important in a machine. (That's why I spent $400 on a PC box, CPU cooler and the most silent fans I could find, last year.)

That, plus the fact that it's an all-in-one machine. One gets sick of reshuffling their desk periodically, I gotta tell you.
I suppose we shall be in need of a new explanation for the Great Depression then.
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For me, the "vanilla" T-series is the best compromise for weight, build quality, and repairability. My personal laptop is a T480, and it's an excellent machine. Very portable, screamingly fast, very good screen (I have the high-res IPS variant).

If you want a bit more premium feel and lighter weight, the Txxxs (e.g. T480s) is a bit thinner than the regular T-series, and feels a bit sturdier (so I've heard, anyways; my T480 is no slouch here, either). It also has less user-replaceable parts, and is more expensive for the same specs. The X-series also fits here.

If you're going more for a luggable desktop replacement rather than small size, the P-series is what you want. I have a P51 for work, and it's an insane machine: 64 GB RAM, Quadro graphics, touchscreen, Xeon processor... It also barely fits in my laptop bag and comes with a massive 170-watt power brick. But since I work from home and drive into the office once a month or so, it's a great machine that gives desktop-level performance (including very good cooling) while still being at least somewhat portable.

If you want the Macbook Pro experience of premium feel, thinness, less ability to be repaired, and higher cost, go for an X1 Carbon. I'd still prefer the X1 Carbon over a Macbook Pro, but I'd prefer a T- or P-series over either of them.

There are some home/SMB-targetted models, such as the E-series; avoid those unless you absolutely can't afford something better. All of the ones mentioned above were designed for customers that maintain fleets of machines, which has benefits even for non-enterprise users.

The current models are very good, and are a big upgrade from the previous generation. Of course, there is always something nicer coming, if you want to wait.
> Fascinating, a polite citation of statistics and analyses by Mr. Ts'o, one from a government organization and another from a university, is somehow characterized a defense of one of the most heinous acts imaginable?

Could you point to the specific document Ts'o was citing that suggests statutory rape not be bundled with other rape statistics? His very literal conclusion is that bundling these should be considered misleading.

> Is permitting people with biases so extreme to write CoCs what we really want?

Quite remarkable how you take me to task for hyperbole and then try to raft my personal opinion to the Linux CoC, of which I have absolutely 0 connection. One need not be a particularly astute reader to note what a dishonest tactic this is.
Is that a real site, or attempt at a parody? I'd believe either answer.
A real entrepreneur is able to be or to get salesmen, engineer, finance guy, a marketing guy, etc...

An entrepreneur is someone able to start a company and in a company, you need more than an engineer to build a device, you also need a guy to sale theses devices, a guy to market it and a guy that able to get the capital and do the balance sheet.

Usually finance can be done with time or a mortgage, so we ignore that one pretty often but if you can only build, well if you don't learn the other skills or never find someone to fill theses skills for you, then you can't really start a company, can you?
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I am interested in the experience of your corner of the world. I'm a millenial who "can't afford a child" (but am making a lot more than a ton of households with children are in my area). Is there an email address I can reach you at? I would like to know your and your community's stance of things like how to have stable families, feelings of loneliness or contentment, and whether your children intend to follow the same path and have the same kind/size of family.
That's a fair point. I was including the smaller recessions as well: there is a boom and a bust within a ten year span.

That the IMF changed the definition of a global recession is a little weird, but they know better than I do.

From wikipedia:

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), "Global recessions seem to occur over a cycle lasting between eight and 10 years."[48] The IMF takes many factors into account when defining a global recession. Until April 2009, IMF several times communicated to the press, that a global annual real GDP growth of 3.0 percent or less in their view was "...equivalent to a global recession."[49][50] By this measure, six periods since 1970 qualify: 1974–1975,[51] 1980–1983,[51] 1990–1993,[51][52] 1998,[51][52] 2001–2002,[51][52] and 2008–2009.[53] During what IMF in April 2002 termed the past three global recessions of the last three decades, global per capita output growth was zero or negative, and IMF argued—at that time—that because of the opposite being found for 2001, the economic state in this year by itself did not qualify as a global recession.[48]

In April 2009, IMF had changed their Global recession definition to:

A decline in annual per‑capita real World GDP (purchasing power parity weighted), backed up by a decline or worsening for one or more of the seven other global macroeconomic indicators: Industrial production, trade, capital flows, oil consumption, unemployment rate, per‑capita investment, and per‑capita consumption.[54][55]

By this new definition, a total of four global recessions took place since World War II: 1975, 1982, 1991 and 2009. All of them only lasted one year, although the third would have lasted three years (1991–93) if IMF as criteria had used the normal exchange rate weighted per‑capita real World GDP rather than the purchase power parity weighted per‑capita real World GDP.[54][55]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession#Global
Too much work. Had my fair share of building PCs or flashing ROMs on Android. When I buy an iMac Pro I will be 100% Apple-invested. I got tired of tinkering on minor stuff, I want to build things and have small logistical resistance while doing so.
It can be useful, precisely as much as any formal framework can help guide your thinking. Categories suggest a particular type of abstraction. It's highly abstract. It can be quite useful. However, if you find another algebraic formalism, that can be useful also.
Please let's not have all the flamewars here.
> This is the one note of darkness that enters an otherwise optimistic conversation. “This technology could be used in a completely different way,” he says. “You could have entire states in America with no people in them. The potential for what we’re doing to be used in the wrong way is there.”

What is inherently wrong or evil about this? If we could automate a state-size farm to feed everyone, isn't that a good thing?
Why do you recommend Racket over one of the other lisps?
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What's the problem with Neo-Keynesians?
Really not sure what kind of people are downvoting these kinds of comments. Anyone care to enlighten?
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No personal attacks were made; the posting individual was not even mentioned. Arguing against an opposing idea is permitted.

No demographic groups were mentioned. Academics are not a demographic group, save possibly in the most academic possible interpretation of the word, and are certainly not a protected demographic group.
We’ll see; a lot of hobby OSes are already doing this to some extent, like using the x86 crate to manage the definitions of various data structures needed by the platform. We can’t really tell until more OSes get further along (my own is taking forever due to lack of time...)
I've seen a broken link from this url parameter already.
A very similar question was asked a few weeks ago in another Ask HN. See my answer there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111600
Had small issues with X1 over the years - e.g. a key fell out (fixed next day by replacing the machine), but otherwise an excellent machine. The trackpad is bad (on Linux) and I didn't find a fix. I like touch to click (without pressing the dedicated button or pressing the trackpad) and it almost never works.
> a functional democratic society will stomp a dictatorial one on pretty much any axis you care to think of

That's correlation, not causation. A lot of the "best" democracies were functioning well before democracy arrived. The main issues that make countries "bad" (bad blood between groups, mistrust of authority, warlords, force majeurs, etc) are not directly related to the form of government.
Totally. It’s really just feature parity - about time.
>How our current news/media copes, and what replaces it are still unknown...

You should be more worried about how the current government copes with it. I think fake news might have helped Trump gain power in part, but it's DEFINITELY contributing to Trump losing power. Which illustrates that it's much easier to tear down with fake news than it is to build up.

That doesn't bode at all well for anyone who wants to be a mayor, or president, or senator, or police chief or whatever in the future.
I don't think Ted Ts'o is a "rape apologist", nor a "reprehensible person." I don't think that calling him that is "educating people", I think it is expressing a particular narrative and world view, one I happen to disagree with.

I agree that communities should be able to set standards for themselves. However, are you willing to accept that not everyone agrees with your personal standards? Many people would not agree with the way you have characterized Ts'o above -- should such people get a say in setting the community standards also?
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> And if you believe discrimination should be banished, when will you be showing up to protest schools which give preferential admission to "legacies" (descendants or other kin of alumni)

I feel like this is a strawman - fossdev didn't say he agreed with such things.
good software engineering requires some minimal level of mental strength, and if a one cant take a snippy (in the one's opinion as in my opinion Linus' emails are very reasonable, precise and thorough explanatorial) email i'd question whether that one would be a valuable member at all.
That reminds me of a project I've always wanted to do but keep putting on the backburner: for a while now, I've been wanting to scrape the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators (UHBMCC) [0] and turn it into an actual database that I can run arbitrary queries on instead of just a collection of flat files (it's a very well-put-together collection of flat files, though). Fortunately they provide an offline version (in the form of CAB files of all things!) so I'd be able to do everything without hammering their server.

IMO, when it comes to Marvel comics, they're a much more useful resource than even the GCD (and part of this is their UI: it may be dated, but putting all the information for a series on one page is ten times better than the GCD's issue-by-issue interface).

(so, several years ago I did do some scraping of a very old version of the UHBMCC, but it's really outdated, I used some awful scraping tools, and I just stored everything in pickled Python objects rather than a database... if I were to start the project up again, I'd want to do it right from the start)

[0] http://maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/
Marx would not be a better candidate?
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> Language itself is mostly a tool for some shade of lying and/or intimidation

No, not at all. Language can be used to that effect, sure, but there exists a little something called true/false.

Train yourself on seing nuances, if you have trouble separating false things from regular partisanship.
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Intercom or zendesk or something else?

I want these tools to pull in customer info on demand and log the activity...so that the customer service reps do not request unessirely the info on customers.
A very tall order, but if you could meet all of those rules you would certainly be the exact kind of person I would hope to run into when contributing to an open-source community <3
Truth be told, I don't care much about the aesthetics per se -- with the exception of the dark theme, that has to be the best thing to introduce in a while!

Windows UI has deficiencies, all Linux WMs have some deficiencies (although some are unbelievably customizable and I like them), macOS is no exception as well. I don't care. I want it to work stably, predictably and be somewhat pretty. macOS ticks the boxes. Windows used to but it's very idiosyncratic lately. And the OS is just somewhat slow even on a very beefy PC where games can't go below 120 FPS... and your OS still manages to lag. Not cool.

In any case, I am not under the illusion that the iMac Pro + macOS will be the "perfect" machine and OS. Not at all. But between getting tired of tinkering with minor crap, UX inconsistency, lags and software compatibility to me the Apple ecosystem is the best compromise. Not trying to convince anyone though, simply explaining my thought process that led me to my decision.
Is that Swagger? It looks like it.
Right. You just don’t want to be holding the bag when the wheels come off. It was the same with CDS’s in 2007. People who got out at the right time made fortunes. Theranos was another example of experienced investors hoping the bubble would last just a little longer than it actually did.
Better to have multiple heads working on one problem and have one race to finish first, like with Ebola. Will the Chinese develop one on their own in time if an outbreak actually happens?
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> I care less about this and more about the fact that the federal government isn't bringing in enough revenue to cover its responsibilities.

The cynic on me thinks this is by design. It's much easier to press for the removal of programs when you can point towards how we're continuously unable to avoid a deficit because of them...
>Excel and Powerpoint came and analysts started doing them themselves with drastic loss in quality and legibility.

Can you recommend any online resources with good examples of professionally handdrawn graphs?
>That said, I think he's wrong to devalue quota type approaches, because in some circumstances, particularly institutional ones in business and government, those are a very effective way to force a noncompliant culture to take its thumb off the scales.

Only for those groups who have a quota to ensure their fair representation. How often has there been a quota to fix well documented discrimination like that against those who are high functioning autistic?
Check out UI/UX design and development. Web development in particular. It isn't quite mathematically charged like data science is but it's a great way to build tools to visualize data!
Amazing writeup and insight - appreciate the detailed response.
Not entirely true in my experience. This would be particularly national interests and don't explain EU subsidies.

When staying particularly in Austria, the subsidies are there because national politicians and EU politicians from Austria want some part of the EU subsidies pot for their farmers, contributing to the general constant rope-pulling and trading "a piece of the cake" (i.e. EU budgets) - usually in the form of: "You get subsidies for x, we then get support for our poor farmers in poorer regions, since they are starving".

Generally the EU subsidies for agriculture are misguided and just money down the drain. Until they begin to dry up causing uproar and "EU took our money!"-complaints.
No downvotes from this guy here. I work with some terrible engineers who I wouldn't trust to design a tire pressure gauge but they're pleasant to be around. On the other hand, I've worked with world class engineers who are abrasive as hell but still write/design good gear. Code shouldn't have a thing to do with their political leanings. To quote an old OpenBSD saying: "shut up and hack".
After seven years of hassle-free service, I upgraded from a T410 to a T480. I miss a few things (mainly the non-chiclet keys and the Thinklight), but otherwise the T480 is—not surprisingly—better than the T410 in almost every way, while retaining much of the heritage and features that led me to purchase my T410 back in 2010.
> E.g., it was only in May he declared it important to keep a stale joke about American politics in the code

Given Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court and the ever more massive fight of "pro lifers" and other religious hardcore bigots to ban abortions and thus invade the right of womens' bodily autonomy, that joke is everything but stale, and not even restricted to the USA!

As a matter of fact, in Germany a doctor (Kristina Hänel) right now is being prosecuted by the state for simply stating on her website that she offers abortion services. Therefore, the "joke" is actually reminding people of basic human rights, and is perfectly legit to keep in the code.
At that point the abusers who move in will realize you can't see them and will harass your members with impunity. That doesn't seem like good community management. Actually it seems like throwing new members into the deep end (exposing them to every bad actor you already knew about) and at some point I suspect the only people who join your site will be malicious.
You know, the time required to host Gittea (or Gogs) is basically nil (you'll have to set your environment up for Github too). And by maintaining it, you mean making sure it's online and taking backups? Because I don't see how you can save any time on those by using Github.

Where you host it is of less relevance, because you can simply take your backup and server script and run them at any different provider any time you want.
100% agree with you, but I think for a lot of people who voted for Trump it might definitely have been an act of "tearing down" what was perceived as the corrupt establishment politics by these voters.
It used to be that this model was common for charity startups and I was sort of ok with that. Uninspired... but ok. Its a bit of wealth transfer capitalism-style, and at least then the profits do to go to help someone in need, maybe by donating back to the people with disabilities, or building infrastructure in the Amazon. But this is just nah we'll keep 100% of the profits ourselves instead! Innovation!

- Find a packaged product with raw material sourced from an "on-trend" country (founder's words), buy at market prices, claim to be "creating opportunities" there in a vague way.

- Find laborers subsidized by grants to do the packaging, use this to apply for your own grants. Enjoy "the incredible feel-good aspects of providing jobs" (founder's words) with subsidized labor costs. Also enjoying "effectively ... zero-interest loans" is a nice benefit as well. PROTIP - If you automate away those same workers once you have used them to bootstrap the business you can still use the pictures in your origin story PR pieces.

- Target "higher-income consumers with the values and means to vote with their dollars - whether that’s in support of high-quality food, progressive community development, or both." (founder's words) to avoid having to justify a premium-priced but ultimately commoditized product.

- Do a kickstarter, not because its necessary to get product validation, just because "the most concrete, useful lesson is definitely that nearly anyone has a $10,000 crowdfunding campaign in them."
I don't think they were...
I extended the useful life of my T410 by doing the same thing. I had a spare SSD lying around, so I put it in the ultrabay to bring my total SSD storage up to 768 GB.
Hey, thanks for sharing this - I thought for sure Lignum Vitae would be #1. There are a few I have never heard of - goes to show how antiquated my knowledge is. I guess a global market provides new substitutes as some hardwoods become endangered or expensive.
He called them internal "moles" from within Intel.
> One challenge not discussed here is when an accepted and highly voted answer _used_ to be a good answer, but no longer is in later versions of whatever software/platform/library is discussed.

That's not a big problem. Questions and comments can be edited by other users, which includes adding and altering tags that reflect software versions.
Oh this is a great idea! I think I might do the same, thanks!
It would help readers if you pointed out specifically what you think is wrong with Category Theory for Programmers.
I recently got pretty heavily into SCART connectors because of retro video game stuff (the most common rgb connector you can use with older consoles is scart) and after a few months I've thrown it all away in exchange for special component cables instead because scart is just terribad in terms of staying connected.

Can't count the number of times I've had colour production go wonky just because of a tiny bump of the scart cable.