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> I can (and have) with Ruby, Typescript

That's precisely the reason why Clojure attracts seasoned, experienced, grumpy developers.

Over and over again, they have been perfecting the art of "building things fast." The problem [with the most] programming languages today, that although they provide frameworks, command-line tools, code generators, etc. to build things quickly, the codebases very quickly become difficult to maintain and scale.

So many times, I have seen it myself. I quit jobs simply because I exhausted my mental and cognitive capacity to deal with the code that I wrote myself several months ago.

While Clojure codebases, no matter how messy they can get, they feel very much like gardens - you can slowly and organically keep growing them.

Some may say: "You're talking about Haskell, or Scala, (or some other language)" And in my experience, although you can do pretty cool things in those languages, sometimes simple, dumbed-down solutions are better. Some may argue: "Now you're talking about Python, or Go...". I think Clojure has a perfect balance between "sophisticated, ultrasmart" PLs and Pls with the books titled "X for complete idiots."

I think Clojure is an ideal language for writing business apps and more and more companies starting to see that.
Cool!

Please join our Community Slack https://database-lab-team-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/ and ping me there -- let's discuss it.

We're refactoring the main code of Joe right now, to improve its extensibility. The main purpose is to simplify the process of adding new protocols.
On top of the disposal aspect... Well what about after they are "disposed of"? They are not recycled. Nearly anything wrapped in consumer grade plastic or stainless steel sheeting isn't. It just goes to a landfill. This is fine in the very, very long term (1000+ years), but as of now, pollution is a pretty bad thing, and will be worse for progeny.
Check out Food Lab by Kenji Lopez Alt: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab

My favorite article is one where he reverse engineers a McDonald fry. His reverse-sear steak is also good.
Ask HN: Proxy PhD Candidate
I've always wanted to do a PhD, but student loan debt and a below-par undergraduate GPA have pushed back that dream. In order to circumvent doing a PhD and earn (better) at the same time, I've worked as a research engineer in some of the best labs in academia, and I write papers/short-papers/posters in my free time.

I currently have too much of free time at my current job and I want to write papers. I'm domain agnostic, and could potentially read any paper that doesn't have too much of math. If there is anyone out here, who wants a remote proxy-PhD candidate, please comment below. I can send my CV on request.
> Any airsoft mesh mask should work.

how about a fencing mask
Also >80% of the world population does not have access to great quality healthcare....
In Praise of Chorded Input
The only time I have ever seen Authy recommended was by sites using SMS TFA.

I wanted to use TOTP or a challenge-response key but none of the sites I use Authy for support that.
Are you volunteering to take the vaccine?
Remember the last time a major world power practiced ethnic cleansing and we joined a war over it? Instead of letting our corporations funnel money towards it?
That kind of torque amplifier is of limited value, and it requires fairly good materials. There's a lot of rubbing involved. Power steering uses a completely different approach.

Rope has been around for millennia, but good rope is modern. Rope before manila, a 19th century development, rotted easily. (Hemp rope rots from the inside out, incidentally, so it looks fine until it breaks.) Modern rope is usually a nylon core with a polypropeline cover. Good rubber belts are post-WWII. Rubber before neoprene tended to crack, and oil made it much worse. Precisely controlled friction is a modern concept.

(I restore antique Teletype machines as a hobby, and the designs from the 1920s and 1930s show these material limitations. The carriage return stop isn't rubber or some flexible material. There's a lever driving a piston in a cylinder to compress air which then comes out through a relief valve. Complex, but buildable with 1920s materials.)
> Will the people discussing 5-7% general population fatality rates over the last week agree to eat theirs if it turns out to be less harmful than last year’s flu?

I'm sure they will be very happy to do that, but I haven't seen anybody discussing 5-7% general population fatality rates, especially not on here. Link? My own comments - and I stand by those - consistently list 2-3% of those infected. That's still plenty bad and if it ends up to be less harmful than last years flu then we all have a reason for a celebration.

> Of course there are serious downsides to hysteria and doomsday prophecies. The market lost $3.4 trillion in value last week, for starters.

The market can will recover just as fast if it turns out to be a 'false alarm'. But right now there are no indications that it is and the only thing propping the markets up this Monday is the promise of money injected into the markets. Also, dead people typically do not recover as well as markets do.

> But also real world economic impact which causes actual harm to everyday people.

Yes it does.

> This has to be scientifically justified and not just political expedience.

I would start with my own comments if I were you. You fairly consistently mis-represent the numbers and have been called out on that before.
All industries, including Auto, resource extraction, etc. I’m not a socialist or anti-capitalist but I think over the last 30 years people (parties) who historically have espoused support for the working class, only do it as a token symbol and don’t mean anything with their words. Everything is a political calculus with the objective to win and return favors. Bernie is the only one who is ideological (normally not a good thing) enough to mean it, but I’m afraid he’ll go too far and make things worse economically, if unchecked by congress.

Politicians didn’t used to become millionaires after they did their stint.
What is the blatantly false proposition? There is a screenshot, and then another screenshot later.

This parent comment appears to be blatantly false. Should brundolf be banned from HN?
> I'm try trying to replicate some things I see in the GNOME settings app already

It still baffles me that System Monitor uses real-time charting that is made entirely out of DrawingArea's and there aren't any good charting components in GTK period.
> Google's got a lot of resources in NLP and language recognition/generation they could apply to NPC dialogues, massive amounts of resources could make enemy/npc AI way more impressive than what you'd see on local hardware

Even if Google could develop this stuff at scale and in the cloud. Google isn't writing the games, game developers are. All of these resources you are talking about require large amounts of developer time on a unique set of resources which are in theory not available on other platforms. If Google wanted to deliver this sort of unique feature into their games, they would have to bankroll it similar to the way Microsoft bankrolled a lot of the Kinect special titles.
Indeed, the veritable microcosm of non-human life all of us carry around on and inside of us. Also different levels of susceptibility.

Breaching the skin alone (aka surgery) introduces risks most of us don't have to worry about in our daily lives.

And that's to say nothing of immunocompromised patients (e.g. cancer or transplant).

What's a happy, harmless staph colony on my skin can be very serious for someone else.
If you follow the link in the (misleading, in my opinion) “Given that less than 13 percent of Americans have pensions” quote, it says that

“In 1980, more than 148,000 DB plans covered 30 million active workers (38% of the workforce), but by 2008 just over 48,000 DB plans covered 18.9 million American active workers (13% of the workforce). Over the same period, the number of DC plans increased from 340,850 to 669,156 with an increase in active workers covered from 14 million (14% of the workforce) in 1980 to more than 67 million (46% of the workforce) in 2008.”
Wow, what a surprise.

/s
Forgive the layperson question, but: if all light carries the same energy regardless of frequency, would this experiment (where one photon is split into three with the same sum frequency) not violate conservation of energy?
Zippers are hard to make. YKK in Japan is notably better than most of their competitors. Holding a tight tolerance on all those cheap teeth is hard.
The atmospheric steam engines were competitive with Watt's type for a long time. The fees charged for Watt's patent were part of the reason, but not the only one.
Like incandescent lamps are better than LED. Spectrum is closer to that of sun.
I wonder if it's good enough for representing textual information, as in coding.
Business is business
Well if in your view I haven't really said anything, then I don't see much need for either of us to comment further.
The article does not support the title. The facts also do not support the article.

Stadia launched with 3 indie games, one of them exclusive. In just the last week they added 3 more indie-ish games (Spitlings and 2 titles from SteamWorld). They also announced at least 4 more indie-ish titles to land soon (Lost Words, 2 more SteamWorld titles, and Stacks On Stacks). So how can one claim that indie developers are not porting games to Stadia? At least some clearly do.

Speaking of Business Insider - in my personal opinion, they are a click factory. They'll write anything that drives clicks, just look at their landing page. "Stadia is DoA" drives clicks and Business Insider wrote quite a few articles to that extent. They know how to run business.

Speaking of this specific article: if devs and 'executives' believe Google is not serious about Stadia, why no-one agreed to speak on record? Is it possible that that these contacts actually think there is a path forward for Stadia and they don't want to burn bridges? Or maybe these industry contacts are imaginary?

Disclaimer: happy Stadia user, playing indie games on it and confused when someone says that indies are not porting games to Stadia.
I refuse to implement client-side analytics; for one thing, it is a waste of bandwidth, and for the other thing, it is not how software should be designed, and for the other other thing, it is unethical.

I do log some stuff sent to the server, as well as some stuff about the response (such as the HTTP status code, data size, timing, etc), although I do not sell this data to anyone else, and this logged data is reduced further if the client sends a "DNT:1" header.

But decisions about how to make something would normally be based on actual comments by the users, rather than analytics, I should think.
People aren’t worried about schools in culturally conservative areas because they think it’ll make it hard for kids to get into selective private colleges; they’re worried about raising their children in areas with a high density of bigots, lest the bigotry rub off on their children.

The paradox of tolerance partially explains this (frequently invalid) bit of discrimination.

But if getting a leg up on selective admissions IS one of your goals, taking your bright teenager to live in a conservative rural or semi-rural area is actually a great way to avail yourself of the many regional quotas these colleges use.

But it’s also frequently a way to make your teenagers really hate you for moving them to such a place...
No, they can't. That would be illegal in this circumstance.
No, I am also talking about the same thing. But you correctly distinguish Europe vs. US. To make progress towards your PhD while working for company in the US, you typically need to be enrolled in a department approved "class" that is basically an internship. To be enrolled in these classes, you need to be a full-time student. Most departments outside of CS and EE don't allow for these courses. Obviously, this is going to be highly nuanced with regard to how each university/department implements it. For example, my department only allows summer internships and requires approval from Advisor and Director of Graduate Studies.
Thanks! That's what I was thinking.
Unless it’s worse. The assumption that forming a union and entering into effectively hostile negotiations with the company will result in a better compensation is unfounded.
Thank goodness I'm productive on a single laptop monitor.
Higher compensation, no protection for incompetent people, reward for productivity and innovation instead of seniority, etc.
> Almost everything ughyur and xinjiang related has pretty much been shown to be propaganda and from highly questionable sources

Do you have any evidence for that whatsoever? In contrast, here's a very thorough look from an established news source: https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ
I can’t overstate how transformative a 2 year Facebook hiatus has been.

Maybe I was an extreme case, but it had a horrible effect on me and I would never consider using it regularly again.
2nd Death Near Seattle Adds to Signs Coronavirus Is Spreading in U.S.
Confirmed, Its magic!
I'm referring to an n95 mask, but I'm betting in Japan workers are just wearing surgical masks. There are plenty of surgical masks in the U.S., of course. They aren't for this purpose, though. I'd assume it's for cultural reasons that surgical masks are worn that much in Japan, probably just makes patients feel comfortable.

Surgical masks are to protect frail patients from your spit and snot, or to keep your spit and snot out of an open body during surgery. Wearing one won't protect you from disease.
If you won’t, I’ll jump in. There’s evidence that it would be a positive choice to drop nitrates from ones diet entirely, but any cured meat product that claims to be nitrate free is either unrecognizable as what the label says or preying on consumer ignorance. Generally it is the second option, and celery salt is the smoking gun. Here’s an article on the subject: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/food/celery-juice-viable-a...

Im comfortable saying any deli meat or bacon marketed “no added nitrates” is either over priced or subpar quality and , in most cases, being hawked by charlatans who thrive on their customers being low information.
Which tools would you have to give up?
This is why I apply a personal philosophy of "separation of powers" when it comes to browsers, operating systems and their ecosystems.
A Key Ingredient for Life Has Been Found on an 'Extraterrestrial Source'
Congratulations, you have both fallen into the position that the University wants you to.

UCSC can easily marshal the resources to get your grades, get you graduated, etc. The fact that UCSC chooses not to in order to divide you from the strikers is intentional.

People don't go on strike because it's fun or popular. And strikes are not meant to be convenient.
The headline in the OP is "Fox News has stopped reporting on Coronavirus" and then goes on to extrapolate that to a far-fetched conspiracy theory.

Several people have chimed in saying that the virus is all over FN's front page, it's just no longer the very most prominent headline. So even the base fact is verifiably false. That's the definition of fake news. And this site goes beyond that and tries to incite conspiracy-thinking based on this false fact.
> Please understand that every single one of those percentages is wrong as you have stated them.

No, they are accurate as far as I know and I've been following this thing with some dedication since before it was discussed in the media because of relatively close ties to China.

> You forgot the most important qualifier, which is that the denominator is some fraction (potentially small fraction) of the total number infected.

You are misrepresenting the OP's words. He said 'of cases', that is the denominator right there. That we don't know all cases is something that everybody takes as a given. But just like we don't know all cases we also don't know all of the dead. The same happened with the swine flu, with SARS and with every other epidemic so far. Only afterwards, sometimes more than a year later do we have all the numbers. And sometimes those end up substantially higher than the original estimate both for the number of infected people as well as for the number of people that end up dead.

> So when you say “upwards” of 5% of cases require the ICU, this is potentially very misleading.

Upwards of 5% of the known cases. But that's assumed, if we don't know someone is infected then they by definition won't require ICU level care.

> Stating that upwards of 5% of hospital cases require the ICU may be true, but now you must not try to extrapolate that value any further until you can tell me definitively what percentage of infections result in hospitalization? 1 in 5? 1 in 20?

They don't need to tell you anything 'definitely' to be allowed to speak their mind. And as far as I'm informed that 5% rate is on the money. So, instead, the onus is on you to prove that less than 5% of the people infected that require care require ICU care. I don't think you are able to do that but I will happily take good news at this point if properly sourced.

> I won’t get into debating R0 values because they are nearly impossible not to misuse.

Agreed.

> For example, COVID-19 does not have just one R0 value. R0 changes radically based on actual conditions on the ground, often day to day.

> The R0 value of COVID in a cult church in South Korea may be actually 1,000 while the R0 globally over the entire course of this news cycle might be 1.2.

True, but there are averages and even the WHO seems to place the number at > 3 at this point in time. That is already a pretty high number, even when taking all the care in the world to ensure it doesn't spread. Of course the criminals in Korea that hope to bring about the end times in some kind of warped self fulfilling religious prophesy are going to skew that number upwards. But in Iran and Italy there was no such cult, and their numbers are very much in line with the development in Korea. And since we're mentioning Iran now, there are lots of informal reports that the situation there is much worse then officially reported, with the number of high officials there infected this - unfortunately - isn't hard to believe at all.
>Wheeled Luggage

I think that one is pretty obvious. You need to be a traveler going somewhere you need to bring luggage to... but it has to be somewhere you can't just have someone help you or use a dolly (e.g. taxi or hotel) but also needs to have smooth surface for the wheels (roads/sidewalks/flooring...), and it has to be a traveler who can't just afford to hire a servant/car/cart/horse to transport those goods.

Prior to train stations, is there any reasonable place a traveler could want to go that would even cause the necessary demand for wheeled luggage?
That's not a bot from their comment history.
Edit: Please see additional context in reply below.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468
I think chorded input is good, and I dislike touch screens. I also thought of using Hollerith chording for entering text using a numeric keypad (although a separate key will be needed for a space), rather than what most things use for entering text using a numeric keypad, which is worse, I think.
Yeah, sometimes I look at some Typescript or Scala code and feel like I don't even understand what the heck they are trying to build anymore.

Very often it feels like they're "elegantly" trying to solve some made-up, bullshit problems for some questionable gain. Feels like bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy.

Totally like OOP shit that we're still trying to make sense of, like:

public abstract class Ellipse2D extends RectangularShape

What's the problem? Ellipses are rectangles with some extreme rounded corners. That's exactly how Euclid described them.
Choosing Event Streaming or Messaging for Your Architecture
Thanks, I appreciate the corrections and detail.

I was mostly going by the committee draft on the arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03565 ), which still mentioned the quantization constraint (J.3) and a "mathematically lossless" mode (annex O) distinct from modular. "Four formats" was just imprecise wording on my part.

The material already public about JPEG XL's design rationale, testing, and so on has been really fun to follow as an outsider. I selfishly hope there's more of it as the work on it and rollout continue. Even with the standard itself public, a lot can be mysterious to those not immersed in this stuff.
I assume that’s your site? Can’t imagine it being posted otherwise.
Ok, so how about next time I'm mad about something I throw a brick through your window? That should cause some disruption and make you pay attention.

Dirsupting uninvolved people to get attention is self-serving and short-sighted. You do that to me and I will be against your cause for sure.
According to Google Scholar, this paper has zero citations. This does not engender too much trust in its results.
Some of the most obvious things I'd give up:

- ability to plug into any monitor at any resolution that monitor supports

- ability to copy and paste to/from my phone

- Transmit - I really haven't found many good s3 clients on Linux

- ScreenFlow

- Git Tower

Most of these have some sort of a work-around or close analog of course. (So I'd likely not be "giving anything up" as much as compromising or learning new techniques) However, I'm not sold on the benefits (other than ideological ones, the only thing that comes to mind is increased Docker performance) outweighing the costs. For someone with a different workflow and set of tools, a different conclusion may result.
Aside from that, I have no idea how to use tmux ;)
Yes. You can currently find that on the Fox News front page with the headline "Coronavirus kills 2nd man in Washington state, officials say".

Edit: Which, FWIW, is next to the article "Virus cases in this country jump by 50 percent in 1 day amid new US warnings"
> you state that the fatality rate for people over 80 is 15%. This is false.

Check this study, it contains that number: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

Yes, most people studied were symptomatic, so asymptomatic people weren't checked.

> The closest you can get is looking at Diamond Princess, where everyone was exposed and as of right now 6 of 3700 died, and that’s in a population skewing elderly.

First, we can't be sure that everyone was exposed to the disease. Even if we assume that everyone was exposed, then I still interpret the numbers differently from you: first, patients on Diamond Princess were subject to medical attention so they likely saved many lives, and second, A total number of 705 of 3700 people became ill enough to be able to confirm the disease on them, the same category of people the 1.4% or the 15% were calculated on. So assume for a moment that 1 out of 5 people exposed become confirmably ill. Even if you divide the number of deaths by 5, it's still a large number and larger than influenza or other diseases.
I think "just" is underselling it a little. When we would grade exams it was quite an ordeal. The professor and all the IAs (maybe 5-8) would be in a room and grade all day long. We would order food delivered to the room so we could keep grading straight through meals.

Having 1 person do all that work would be intimidating.
Chinese Swimmer Sun Yang Banned 8 Years for Doping Violation – Pandaily
Can't say about the physics, but with my recent approximate knowledge of algebraic structures I think it has to mean that QM is an OK division algebra, meaning something is invertible. If the invertible thing is a matrix then it might have nice computational implications.
yes, and the transponder signal must identify the air-frame, you so you may need hardware for each of the drones.

Of course, this transponder could easily be disabled or omitted by someone with nefarious intent.