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I've noticed that as I get older, I generally get sick less often and in less severity. This is probably because I have been exposed to so many variants through getting sick so often when I was young and also getting the flu shots yearly for the past 25 years. Seems like I've just built up a bit of a strong defense because my body's database of seen viruses is fairly long.

That all being said, I (and we) still need to be smart about reacting to an infection. It seems that reacting quickly with the cold meds can help the body react to the exponential growth of the infection. This seems to give the body time to react and catch up with the defenses. Waiting until the symptoms are the worst to take meds is the wrong process. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Colds-and-Flu.html
It’s is pretty cool, the alternative being compiling. I know there was a way to hot reload swift, when I tried back in like 2016. But it required strange swizzling, and still had a compilation lag (not that Babel doesn’t, but it’s usually faster)
Removing the posters solves the problem of injecting politics into the workplace. If there’s also a racism problem, that would need to be dealt with on a case by case basis. I took the original post by the black ex-FB employee to mean he saw the posters as meaningless virtue signaling that had no effect on what he saw as a racism problem at Facebook.
I don't really think it is fair to include hardware in that list. It makes sense to memorialize the death of a hardware line, but it doesn't really make sense to memorialize every single piece of hardware. That's a bit like memorializing every minor version of software that is superceded by a new version.
Really? All of your jobs have been for competitors of each other? I don't think that is the case for most people.
> that they're underpaid or overworked or whatever

Having family in healthcare and being a lifelong patient due to a congenital defect, a job in software (including management obv) is a breeze compared to health care worker jobs across the board. They require more "schooling" (via mind-numbing training), are underpaid, have much more serious consequences from mistakes, have less oversight, work longer hours and under worse conditions. It's disheartening.
I believe that is what ZTE was pinged for. There were US chips in the equiptment sold to Iran.
The problem is that this is yet another boilerplate file.

The reasoning is good, but we were just arriving to the point that every Python tool out there is either compatible with tox.ini, setup.cfg, or both (much like the JS ecosystem has tools reading from package.json).

Now we have both Pipfile and pyproject.toml on top of it!

For a language that prides itself on its stability and backwards compatibility (especially when compared to the JS ecosystem), we churn through boilerplate files harder than Google churns through instant messaging apps.
Audiences didn’t seem to want colors, or sound. Now we have it. Brace yourself for 60fps movies :) I personally can’t wait.
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Maybe that's OK? Going a bit slower but with more solid footing seems like a reasonable tradeoff to me, though I'm a layman.
The startup CTO must be ready to do everything
The difference between tech and non tech companies is the value factor of the employee.

If you're a software guy at a large global hotel, it's meh. You are a tier 3 or 4 employee. They make money booking rooms - anything else is a cost component.

Software companies see developers as an asset because they build the product. The dynamic is different and the pay and respect reflect that.

One time I almost quit a start up to take a little more money at a hedge fund to do their internal software. The start up CEO talked me out of it and I learned an important lesson about my trade.
It’s gonna be fun when somebody forgets to take the fob out of the microwave before warming their coffee.
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Thank you for this - I'd never looked into uMatrix but I'm test driving it today.
Same for color and sound when it came out. It’ll take some time for people to adjust but it is definitely coming.
I'm pretty sure most people, even administrators in hospitals and insurance, are overworked. Health care in the US is the textbook definition of big business. The only people making easy, stupid money are shareholders.
Facebook employees are buying burner phones 'to talk s--t about the company'
Thanks for that! Never knew that worked.
People can smell when a product isn't earnest. From the beginning, Allo smelled like a directive by a Google VP to "get messaging market share."
We have plenty of people who could do that for typical x86 opcodes. It really does look good if somebody can do this, but we wouldn't expect it. Most of us need the processor manual. Sticking to the mnemonics and C is fine.

BTW, totally serious: I've had to write the code in binary several times. I know a few opcode representations.
This doesn't show evidence of a filter bubble. It shows evidence of different results. The filter bubble is the idea that we are in a bubble, cut off from differing viewpoints.

(additionally, I am highly skeptical of the filter bubble's existence/effects and the book was terrible - full of "mights" and "coulds" and few solid facts.)
They are not even taking new customers either. They are just going to start charging existing 400 users.

That's the only difference of this "launch".
How does one explicitly "un-play" their male card then? I'm male, and if I have implicitly played mine I'd love to reverse that to do my fair share to give women equality on the workplace.

I suspect when you say that the male card is automatically in play, you aren't referring to something that men are automatically doing, but rather some facet of the system that favors men. In which case, changing the system is the correct approach, not introducing unbalanced social norms approving of women "playing the female card".

I also suspect that even I am taking this "play the card" analogy far beyond its usefulness haha. I'd much rather talk about actual systems or behaviors in concrete terms that broker little room for misunderstanding.
I'm curious why you mention "small operators" twice here.

Huawei is a huge player in an inherently global business, complicated by the fact that selling telecoms network equipment necessitates dealing with quasi-state actors in most countries. Anyone playing at the C-level in such a company is definitely well advised around things like FCPA (and its non-US equivalents) and sanctions regimes.

Small operators get the short end of the stick, sure, but Huawei's CFO is not a small operator (and the sad recipient of China's likely retaliation probably won't be, either).
I don't see how it's good for society that smart people are being paid to do nothing. The article pointed out that the danger of NCAs is a lack of innovation and thus economic growth. It made no point about the individual incomes of the workers.
> Whenever I say the word "union", all the complaints I hear against them from programmers sound like straw men.

You refused to understand my post and downvoted to disagree.

Your position is, therefore, refuted by your own dishonesty.
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So-called "right to work" laws are not intended to benefit workers, so it's not particularly surprising.
You are most valuable in a position that leverages your existing skills and expertise. Those positions are the most likely to be covered by NCAs.

Not only is 100% not too much, but it’s the minimum that should be required. The cost of requiring a NCA should be high; that ensures they are only used when they are really worth it to the employer.
I threw out one third as some middle of the road attempt, but yeah in reality that number is going to be much closer to the full salary [0] and that's precisely my point.

Market based incentives only work if there's a clearing price.

[0] Or even higher if a new position would be a significant raise!
And a lot of this is administrative overhead. Coming from a country outside of the US, I was also shocked by the price of medecine, every medecine magically seems to be 5-10x more expensive in the US.
> It seems to me we are truly and globally fucked

Yep. I'd say that's clear. My only consolation will be all those "told you so" opportunities. And I have moved north, uphill, and into a region of small farms. So hey.

Maybe it's aliens who are using humanity to "terraform" Earth into a climate that's more favorable to them. That makes about as much sense as anything else.
You can get those OOP benefits using Erlang.

I’m not saying it’s bad to add FP bits to other languages. I just haven’t seen the same benefits as when I know what a called library/module can and can’t do with my data.
There's also the implication that the Landmarks Preservation Committee "cherry-picked" the Strand building while ignoring other more vulnerable buildings. More details on the background of the controversy can be found on the Gothamist web site.

http://gothamist.com/2018/12/04/strand_landmark_fight.php
Key fobs inside a home have one property:

They are laying on a desk or in a drawer and are not being touched/moved for extended periods.

Maybe a simple mems step counter could help activate them for a short period of n seconds/minutes.
> The point of pyproject.toml is to allow other libraries to replace setuptools.

This can be done with setup.cfg. Setuptools is only a backend supporting it. You can create other ones. Poetry and pipenv could support it in a week in their authors decided so.

> The reasons for not using setup.cfg are explained in the PEP.[1]

Those are not reasons, those are excuses. Let me quote it:

>> There are two issues with setup.cfg used by setuptools as a general format. One is that they are .ini files which have issues as mentioned in the configparser discussion above.

Not only setup.cfg does the job with the current limitations of the ini format (while pyproject.toml still doesn't with its fancy one), but python projects are not so complex they require such a rich content.

Besides, nothing prevent PyPA to says that setup.cfg format now has a version header, with the current setup.cfg being headerless version 1, then make the header mandatory for version 2 and increments it to move toward TOML if we ever reach a limitation. That's how formats grow everywhere else in the world.

>> The other is that the schema for that file has never been rigorously defined and thus it's unknown which format would be safe to use going forward without potentially confusing setuptools installations.

That's incredibly dishonest, since I gave a link to a complete documentation of the format in my previous post. Besides, it's better to actually refine the existing standard if you ever find it lacking than recreating one from scratch. While there are good reasons to do so, the later is rarely a rational engineering decision, and most often driven by ego.

>> While keeping with traditional thanks to setup.py, it does not necessarily match what the file may contain in the future

So ? How is that a problem ? A standard is not meant to be set in stone. It evolves. But it can't do so if everytime one has an itch, one reinvents the wheel.
That's a great video, thanks for posting.
The US military budget should be reduced by 50%. Even then we waste more than most others spend.
> A union is a mechanism by which a class of people with less power (typically workers) pool together to enforce rules on people with more power (typically employers).

Only if you ignore the fact union members are giving up power to union leaders, who can force them to give money to support political candidates as a condition of employment and who can, as part of a contract, deny them the ability to participate in labor actions if the union leadership disagrees, probably for some profit motive.
> but XML requires APIs to work with in any meaningful way.

And JSON doesn't?! Sure it does. E.g., I regularly use the jv API in libjq. I wouldn't want to use JSON in any other way than via an API, honestly.

You could also argue that XSLT/XPath are part of the XML API / ecosystem, much the way I think of JSONPath / jq as part of the JSON ecosystem.

And yes, the world has moved away from XML... for non-document purposes. XML was a poor fit for encoding non-document data. SOAP's use of XML to encoded non-document data sure sucked, though it died of other things too (e.g., REST becoming more popular and being more appropriate in some ways). That's why we have things like protocol buffers, flat buffers, etc. Some even remember XDR, NDR, ASN.1 and its many encoding rules. Some even remember those and curious enough to have noticed that protocol buffers is DER reinvented.

JSON is much more appropriate for non-document data than XML, and unlike XDR/NDR/<various>buffers/DER/BER/CER/XER/PER/OER you don't have to agree on a schema a priori, which makes JSON very useful in REST APIs. But you could still define REST services in relation to schemas and then use OER or flat buffers to get very efficient encodings.

At the end of the day it's all the same data no matter how you encode it, provided the choice of encoding doesn't force you to give up some metadata or force you to express it in a convoluted way.

The point isn't that you can't do with JSON what you can with XML, or that you can't do with XML what you can with <various>buffers. The point is that XML has decades of evolution baked in already. You should not reinvent a document format without being very explicit about what's wrong with XML, what's missing that can't be added, and what you're willing to throw out, otherwise you'll find yourself replicating that evolution.
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I like the way you do it too, and I don't think it needs any improvements besides being shared more.
USA will go to a foreign country and topple their government for violating US business interests (not laws). Being an American might be OK, but America isn't a beacon for citizens of other countries.
Not that I’m defending Allo, but I don’t know how useful your distinction is. What is an earnest product then?

Any product released by a company that has bills to pay is released to “get market share”.
My biggest fear of a bill like this is even should we have the most progressive anti corruption government implement this law originally, whats to prevent this from becoming incredibly wasteful just like our military is. I.e. we spend a trillion dollars over decades trying to develop some drug that turns out to take us nowhere, while enriching pfizer shareholders this time instead of lockheed martin ones.

I absolutely support medicare for all, even though as a healthy young software engineer this will raise the cost of my healthcare a ton, I'm just nervous that this will result in the largest negative iron triangle in the history of our country.
People's work shouldn't be reduced, but drugs and devices should be to an extent. Firefighters told the portable EKG costed thousands of dollars (5 or 10 don't recall). That thing had bad 2G connectivity so the graph coudn't be sent to a cardiologist. The sensor/dsp part is worth money, the rest would cost 100$ from any smartphone maker today with better performance and portability.

I'm sure the price is rigged for margins. This shouldn't be a market, it should be an open duty to make these cost efficient.
I disagree.

Take Arms. Lets say the US has an arms embargo with a country like Iran. You would agree that it definitely is a violation (and it would be of many international treaties) to purchase US arms as a Hong Kong (replace with whatever country) firm and then resell them to Iran. Now, with computers being the next front of warfare, computer tech is treated similar to arms.

The whole movie 'War Dogs' is about people doing this with Soviet Arms, repackaging them, and selling them to the US. It was illegal, hence they got locked up at the end
One way to to be certain is to not travel or do business with any Chinese company. In this case, Huawei was selling us technology to Iran so it became a target.

Whenever you get in the cross-hairs of any country and you travel abroad, there is a non-zero risk of you being extradited.
Also important to note that extradition generally requires that the request be for a crime similar or recognized in the requested country. The treaties usually state or outline the crimes or characteristics that qualify.

Countries with "incompatible" legal systems generally don't have extradition treaties, but if they do you typically have to be charged with something that's a serious crime in both countries.
Google feels like a company that's run by a bunch of engineers/product managers instead of a product leader with a cohesive vision. Anyone with an iPhone would understand what iMessages is and what FaceTime is. What is what and what you can do with each. Now explain it to me Google - what's your vision? (Or is it "target end state" in engineering speak?) As customers we want (at most) one chat application and one video calling application. What is it going to be?

It's the exact same story with Music applications too. Android Music and Google Play Music seems abandoned. YT Music is pushed down the throat with a ton of the features of GPM missing. Subscription pricing keeps changing around. Same story with Gmail/Inbox. One by one I have left all Google's products now.

That said, whoever is running Google Maps is a genius. It's one product that gets it right. The fact that overlayed business listing, transit, traffic and now ride share systems ...etc. is just brilliant. We take it for granted. But if Google Maps ended up in the hands of whoever was in charge of their messaging or music strategy we'd have - Google Maps, Google Directions, Google Transit, Google Businesses, Google Restaurants and Google Rides.
Actually, that was a good "intact water landing" the rocket stopped the spin before landing, then the rocket positioned itself so it fell horizontal on the water for retrieval instead of vertical
You also don't have a right to not be arrested in America. Why would you think that? They can arrest you for any reason at any time if you are on their land.

If you're outside America, you don't have a right not to be blown to pieces by a killer robot (aka "drone"). Why would you think that? They can blow you to pieces for any reason at any time no matter where you are.
As an alternative opinion, I try to minimize the amount of time I spend on both social media and news. I appreciate long form writing, but I'm no longer willing to invest in reading without the expectation of something of value learned or perspective gained. It's a shame, but my reading list is already too long and there are certainly worthwhile articles I can be sure my time is well spent.
Ask HN: Is net neutrality in effect?
What evidence do you have that net neutrality has throttled, blocked or has tangibly changed the internet?

Link is for my reddit post if you want to answer there as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OurGoodDiscussion/comments/a3icxv/is_net_neutrality_in_effect/
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If you want to do business with the US, there are certain conditions they'd like to enforce (e.g. don't resell their stuff to a list of countries). That's simple.

The other reality is that certain countries have cooperation agreements where they feel their laws are compatible enough that they agree to extradite individuals that break those laws. Seems pretty standard business to me.

If you know you're violating a high profile US law, dont travel to countries that are buddies with the US. Maybe she didn't know about the arrest request?
Every country has things the culture is sensitive of. That might be child pornography for the USA, or drugs for Malaysia, or comments about the king for Thailand.

They all have long prison sentences/death in their country, and light/no sentences in most of the rest of the world.

All countries have tried to go after people breaking their culturally sensitive thing abroad, with varying levels of success.
That is a completely separate problem. If country X can produce food cheaper than yours, your farmers will be unprofitable and you'll end up importing food (or subsidizing local food somehow). If both countries impose a carbon tax in the same amount, nothing about that has changed.

Moreover, the best way to do a carbon tax is to just give the money back to people -- use it to fund a UBI. Then the amount can be as high as you want because the higher you make the tax, the more progressive it is, because it increases the amount of the UBI. Let corporations pay more for diesel with the money going to individuals. Paying $900/month in additional fuel tax to get $1000/month in UBI would be great for the poor. Not so much for the oil companies.
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On the authority of Justin Trudeau having no balls.
Huawei also has a large R&D presence in Canada.
Maintaining good relations with Huawei is more in Canada's interest.
This comment reeks of arrogance. American beacon? as if the tables were turned arresting someone out of retaliation isn't what the US would do.
Sad story, but great article.
Ah, if it's not buying with the intention to resell that's illegal, but the resale itself, it means nothing.

I just think it's weird that the US law handles the resale case. Like they think they have authority over the whole world.

The US supposedly loves private property. But this transitive application of trade restrictions sounds like complete disrespect of private property. (And honestly even just any trade restrictions in general…)
I’ve always worried about the political consequences to the loss of insurance jobs.

I also view that job loss as a foregone conclusion due to insurance companies fighting even moderate changes tooth and nail. If even minor improvements to a nakedly broken system are going to get fought against with such ferocity, it’s not surprising that their opponents would try and move the Overton window in response.
I just tried googling pipeextender, tried it on both google.dk and google.com, and the results look reasonable to me - the first row is their sponsored, but that's actually a list of pipe extenders so still useful. Then the organic results all look reasonable.

What do you see when you google pipeextender ?