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>here are no free states except for Somalia,

You touch on an good point: enforcement.

So far in human history people have been mostly tolerant of laws that were incompatible with their way of life because resources available for enforcement has been the bottleneck and most laws go unenforced unless people really want them enforced. For example, anyone who wanted alcohol during prohibition could get it, it was just a little more expensive and lower quality. Sure alcohol was illegal but it wasn't considered immoral by most so you only had to hide your use of it from law enforcement, not from society in general. We seem to be entering an age (at least in the west) where thanks to technology the bottleneck is politicians and police willingness to face backlash from the public. I'm not going to speculate on what the future holds but I fear that it will not be good if people grow accustomed to the government ratcheting up enforcement of laws that are on the books but currently rarely used.
Check out Permutation City by Greg Egan for some inspiration ;)
We have flying taxis. They're called helicopters and they're pretty much exclusively used by very wealthy people for commute-type scenarios. What is yet to be shown by any of the "giant drone" prototypes I've seen to date is a realistic cost projection showing a ~10x reduction in comparison to a helicopter with similar safety levels within the next 10 years. I have also yet to see how these aircraft will deal with FAA regulations - a flying car is great in theory until you're subject to all the same rules as normal aircraft.
Wait...are you saying 100,000 records is a lot? If so, I disagree. Any serious enterprise workload is millions, usually tens, hundreds of millions, and oftentimes billions or tens of billions or more over the lifetime of any given production UNIX process. Hundreds of thousands is dev testing range. I've dealt up to single-digit billions, and I can say having a cursor is absolutely a requirement when working with production data.
My parents are elderly and my partner's parents live 150 miles away, and both work; We have no family that is able or willing to watch our child so we pay for care (and it's hugely expensive, over $2500/mo for center based care)

My partner works as an RN, and I'm in software development. I've always taken the days off when our child is ill, it's logistically simpler, but I make 2X the salary so we have always said my job is the priority if we lose child care long term.

If our daycare closes for a long period that means my partner needs to stop going to work and there's one less RN at that hospital.

To make things worse, our daycare has already stated that the current "24 hours fever free" policy of your child returning is now "14 days fever free, or a physician's note indicating it's safe to return" -- and you must keep paying while they are out, that's the existing policy when it's a day or so and apparently will continue even when it's two+ weeks... no relief expected.

If daycares are forced to shutdown, but still require payment from parents, that will be absolutely egregious and infuriating.
I have always wanted to get a entry level graphics tablet for Linux but whenever I have looked for well supported Linux hardware it was always confusing. Does anyone have a good recommendation for entry level graphics tablet? I mainly want to do basic sketching and diagrams for furniture designs.
Nah, it's to distract from the Impeachment.
Still a good strategy to be the first to implement. Collect the profit as much as you can, then move on.
That makes no sense.

The name coronavirus doesn't refer to China at all. And it had to get a better name, because "coronavirus" properly refers to a whole class of viruses than include both the common cold and COVID-19.
Some teams might have sensitive information that they don't want up somewhere they can't control.

Slack has also been banned in China at times.
From a Penn State epidemiologist (note that the quote below speaks of the "infection fatality rate", which is different from the "case fatality rate", the difference is explained in the article)[1]:

"Scientists working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London and the Institute for Disease Modeling have used these approaches to estimate the infection fatality rate. Currently, these estimates range from 0.5% to 0.94% indicating that COVID-19 is about 10 to 20 times as deadly as seasonal influenza. Evidence coming in from genomics and large-scale testing of fevers is consistent with these conclusions. The only potentially good news is that the epidemic in Korea may ultimately show a lower CFR than the epidemic in China.

...

"On balance, it is reasonable to guess that COVID-19 will infect as many Americans over the next year as influenza does in a typical winter -- somewhere between 25 million and 115 million. Maybe a bit more if the virus turns out to be more contagious than we thought. Maybe a bit less if we put restrictions in place that minimize our travel and our social and professional contacts.

"The bad news is, of course, that these infection numbers translate to 350,000 to 660,000 people dying in the U.S., with an uncertainty range that goes from 50,000 deaths to 5 million deaths. The good news is that this is not a weather forecast. The size of the epidemic, i.e., the total number of infections, is something we can reduce if we decrease our contact patterns and improve our hygiene. If the total number of infections decreases, the total number of deaths will also decrease."

[1] - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-this-epidemiologist-is...
This is my favorite.
I love myself, I want you to love me....
”as long as you're not hurting anyone / planning to hurt anyone”

By that definition, car racing on public streets, running red lights and ignoring speed limits is absolutely fine, as long as you’re not hurting anyone / planning to hurt anyone.

Regulations that limit the risks people get exposed to exist for a reason: you can’t undo damage done to others by punishing the culprit. That’s why, for example, reckless driving is illegal.

Lots of things are only legal, not when companies do it, but when those doing it follow safety protocols.
If one completely ignores their dangerous obsession with secrecy and its major role in the spread of said fire to the rest of the globe, yes.
So far the comments have been about people's prior experiences with the topic (which is great), or prior opinions about the topic (which is ok). But the more interesting story is being overlooked: this is heavy-duty new research that overturns previous conclusions, including the prior expectations of at least one of the lead authors. It would be good to discuss the specifics of the article and the new study.
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I'd like to know about companies or institutions involved directly in science, in one way or another, where software development is a big part of the company
Interesting! You might be interested in an old HN discussion between Alan Kay and Rich Hickey (JGI). It sounds to me like dit is basically an attempt at solving the problem that Alan Kay was getting at when he conceptualized “object oriented programming” as affecting behavior (even extracting information) from an object by passing messages to it — which would be a critical bottleneck when trying to build an “inter-galactic network” in the spirit of Licklider’s vision.
I don't have an opinion on the subject frankly. There are plus and minus sides to both approaches. I was just pointing out the fallacy of the unaffordable "$400 sweater".
I know where you're coming from, but we don't live in a world where everyone CAN make seasoned decisions based on all these information available, they mostly just listen to auhtories of their choice maybe it's because of education, time or intelligence I don't know. And in this case your neighbor's choice hurt you regardless what your choice is. Just think about how many parents still refuse vacination for kids. Maybe on a college campus this could be true, but outside of it? I don't think so.
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I've always wondered about the legality of videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4JUQaLHriU
Thank you for passing this along!
I am a big fan of this approach.

I have seen that if I stop and think about the problem too much in the beginning, it takes a whole lot longer to arrive at a good solution.

Prototype -> Think -> Engineer.

If you are lucky, you get to reuse some code from the prototype, if not that was hopefully a good lesson for the future.
Anyone who engages in rules lawyering (hey, my group is only 999 people, we're all good) is being unethical.

Anyone who brings a large group of people together for frivolous reasons or without taking precautions is being unethical.

What's a large group? It's like porn - you know it when you see it.
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Soy, you mean?
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So that’s never going to happen. You may as well say why build highways when rail is more efficient. Most developed countries will want to have some local manufacturing for national defense reasons. A car plant can be retooled to make tanks, planes, and guns. But if you don’t have one now you wont have it when you need it.

Also, r&d consumes a lot of resources. Shared platforms are the way to go. VW outsourced beetle production to Mexico where they continued to produce them even after VW stopped selling them. They were good and cheap enough. Exactly what a developing economy needed.
Not even to speak about Ayahuasca (DMT) and
Ibogaine. They seem to have even more of these therapeutic properties.
Can we have 2013 in the title?
Or most the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation
"Secret-ballot elections are a good, clear example of a “technical trick” that works out for real political effects. You can’t rubber-hose people into voting for you.."

That's an easy one to solve with a rubber hose and a bit of politics: Get people to approve vote-by-mail. Just scream at any opponent that he's suppressing votes and don't mention any reasonable non-mail related alternative solutions to that.

Once there's sufficient voting by mail (make ballot access difficult if it's not popular enough), you can directly apply all the things you mention by controlling USPS.
Spot on. My favorite way to summarize this is:

SQL is easy. Data is hard.

If you aren't investing the work up front to make your data useful then no amount of tooling or magic beans will make writing meaningful SQL easy. If your reports (SQL) are hard to write it's because you have bad data.

Having said that making data exploration easier is always a worthwhile exercise. The more business people can self-serve their questions the better. It falls to data people to make that possible not just with tools but with the data itself.
I think we generally agree. As you point out, all illegal immigrants are criminals by definition, so there is a lot of sloppy rhetoric and innuendo that is possible based on that technicality. Trump exploits it to the max.

I think Trump intends for the subtext aspect of his word salads to be consumed both by his opposition and by a small (but important) subset of his base. There are a lot of people in key voting districts who deeply resent immigrants because of competition for jobs, etc. For those voters, hearing politicians focus on things like latinx identity politics makes them feel alienated and resentful. In that context, Trump coming across as a bit biased against immigrants (if not outright racist) provides emotional proof that Trump is on their side, and lends credibility to his claims about returning America to its heyday when blue collar work offered a significantly higher standard of living than it does today.

Many modern politicians have done this. Some of Sanders' rhetoric from a few decades ago evokes xenophobic themes to underscore support for the working man, and nearly all serious presidential candidates from the Democratic party have found nationalistic language to communicate that rust belt workers will not be abandoned. Lots of this has been anti-trade, border security oriented, etc.

Worldwide, reductions in free trade are typically accompanied by nationalistic sentiments and political rhetoric. So it's all quite normal and to be expected.

But what I think sets Trump apart from the normal (and frankly already ugly) way that politicians try to do this is that his rhetoric is even more direct and the subtext hits on an even more direct emotional level. There are many ways to explain how someone from the GOP won over a lot of working class voters who had been loyal Democrats for years. It took this kind of extreme messaging.

Tangentially, Trumps tactic works because of how social media news feed algorithms work, since even old school media uses analytics that are heavily influenced by what spreads on social media. So all the efforts to police content and deplatform fringe voices are not going to make any difference in Trump's ability to use this technique, since the articles are written by the NYT and are seen by the target voters because one of their friends or family members in a blue state/district got riled up and shared it on social media.

Anyway, I find it very interesting and I appreciate your engagement with this discussion.
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that is what he was referring to.
Until you get burnt by a bug/limitation which systemd team consider as feature.
True. It's why I was defending and supporting grammar nazis.
> as long as you're not hurting anyone

I think the problem is that, much of the time, there's no way to know _if_ someone is planning on causing harm with certain tools until it's too late; until they actually cause the harm. While it would be nice to allow everyone to have anything they want (as long as they're not going to hurt anyone else), sometimes it's necessary to take away some rights in order to protect the greater good. Sometimes it's necessary to make compromises, sometimes there's tradeoffs.
I was recording a remote class (I often teach face-to-face), and decided to put 5-second musical intro to it. So I composed some music for the first time in close to a decade.

Also, I've discovered how lucrative it is to have clients in the USA when you are in another country (Australia) that is going through a pandemic-driven currency collapse. Every client has just given me a 10% pay rise.
This only impacts 1903 and 1909 releases of Windows, so any Windows Server LTSC 2016 and 2019 aren't affected.
I buy mostly paper and plastic packaging. When factoring in tariffs and shipping costs, it's generally cheaper in China like 70% of the time and there are more suppliers in China (so it's easier to find them on Alibaba). It's generally harder to find the American suppliers and there's a wider variance in price. It could be there are two American options and 25 Chinese options. One American company could be the cheapest and the other could be the most expensive. The Chinese companies tend to have lower variance in pricing.
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It's bad naming practice and only adds confusion to search.
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Ask HN: Can anyone get the protein-folding game foldit to to run on Android/iOS?
Foldit, the distributed protein-folding game, can't run on iOS or Android because they cannot figure out how to compile Rosetta onto it. With a bunch of anxious people around the world just passively anxious about their grandparents, wouldn't it be better to give them some NP-hard piece of NP-hard of discovering the vaccine?
The constitution of Somalia[0] is actually a fairly interesting read, at least if you have a big imagination. Not sure I'd exactly characterize it as a "free state" though.

[0]http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/Somalia-Constitution2012.p...
I think what's missing is a true regulatory grappling with the nature of "platforms." Businesses have long had and used the ability to pull the rug out from under their clients/customers. But the current situation is a different beast. We now have a whole category of businesses that can only reach their customers through one of several competing platforms. But when you use these platforms, as you must, you exist and function entirely at the whim and pleasure of the platform. The platform can, at any time and for any reason, essentially swallow you and grow commensurately more powerful. The only brakes that exist right now are essentially the fear of regulation, good will/reputation management, and desire for focus on the part of the platforms. Those are some flimsy brakes.

These are uncharted waters, if you ask me.
They officially launched in 2014, I believe. They have some 20 million customers, last I checked, which gives ~10k customers per day on average from 2014. It makes sense that it would have been fewer per day in the beginning, and then accelerated.
Well, this is precisely a class conflict: the lower-class values of liberty, competence, autonomy, and honesty on Raymond's side, and the upper-class values of purity, etiquette, exclusion of the wrong sort of people†, and getting along well with the right sort of people, on Ehmke's side — although you might say that her etiquette is "more honored in the breach than in the observance", in our modern mangling of the phrase.

The question is really which set of values will determine the future course of the Open Source Initiative: the values of foulmouthed mullet-wearing truck drivers or the values of refined ladies and gentlemen who couldn't possibly, oh, how simply dreadful.

† Personae non Gratae, you might say.
And you can substantiate your claim with what data?
It would be the new house, not the old one, and it is only permitted to choose from the candidates offered by the electors.

Also, does January 6th have to exist? By law, we could shorten January to just 5 days. We could compensate by lengthening March. There would never again be a January 6th.
To be thoroughly honest, I said the same thing about Tesla 10 years ago and the technology did in fact get wayyy cheaper. New economic realities are upon us.

But like you said, safety is harder when you are airborne. Can't imagine what NYC would be like with 1000 helicopters in the sky.
Addiction is all about control... either it controls us or we (think) we control it. It's a perverse feedback loop.
Ok, I never tried but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work but also don't know how the peer library handles multiple connection objects. Anyway this is a different issue from having multiple transactors configured to write to the same logical database.
Was wondering about the response in Austria, thanks. Haven't seen much over at ORF.at. I have older extended family there I worry about.
If you want to actually stop the spread of airborne diseases you should wear a full face respirator. The expensive models are extremely comfortable and can be worn indefinitely.

Here's hoping they become acceptable.
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Standing desk (adjustable, with electric motor) is great for this. It will take some adjustment but a good headset with a good standing desk will do wonders for your posture, allowing you to pace while you think (I think better when I'm walking or pacing) or during conference calls/standups, look out the window, do a few pushups etc then drop the desk after an hour or 2 and sit for some keyboard/mouse/touchscreen action depending on your work.

Sitting all day is the absolute worst for the human body - lymph system gets listless, joints get stuck, blood doesn't flow as well to the brain and so on.

All disease is cell disease and if a cell can't get rid of its waste it becomes rebellious and cancerous. The lymphatic system is not circulatory and works best when the body is in motion or being massaged.

Oh yea, if you have the $ having a professional masseuse drop in for a 15-min neck and shoulder rub goes a long way, too.

Do not underestimate the long-term negative effects of a sedentary work day on your health, longevity and well-being.

Having a chill pet around like a slacker cat or quiet dog would probably be good for a lot of people, too.
Plus who knows if the current numbers from China are accurate. They could still be underreporting as the world focuses elsewhere, we only have the CCP to go by.
This joke is so effective that just reading it makes me stop wanting to lick my lips!
I've read up recently that Wacom typically have Linux drivers available. I currently have a huion 1060 and it's been a nightmare to even try to get working and any distro. Oddly enough my first try was with Kubuntu which was why I thought this was a weird article. Kubuntu is one of my favorite distros but KDE is just so buggy especially with nvidia cards (which isn't kde's fault more or less).
Believe it or not, matte touchscreens do exists.
Step one: close Drumpf’s twitter account and delete all video clips of him talking.
Thanks fort he link, seems well researched, even though it has a clear anti China bias.
I did include a citation with a chart for deaths from natural disasters worldwide for the last 120 years. Meanwhile you mention heat wave deaths in Europe (with no citations) and conveniently exclude deaths from winter-based natural conditions.

Here's the CDC analysis on deaths from temps, showing that among weather related causes of death (which are not even in the top 50 ways to die, by the way), 31% were due to excessive heat and 63% were due to excessive cold: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25073563-deaths-attributed-t...

There is no evidence of precipitation decline across the planet. Some drought-prone areas, that have been drought prone for thousands of years, have gotten some drought conditions. There's nothing new about that. In California there's fossil evidence of 200 year megadroughts that pre-date industrialization. So mother nature is gonna throw us curve balls no matter what we do. We have to adapt when that occurs, see links below for studies on historical megadroughts not caused by man:

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstrac...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730237/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10933-012-9590-9
https://perspective.finos.org/ supports simple SQL-like operations, group by, filters and sort e.g.
unrelated to article but why on earth does this site completely demolish my ability to go back to HN on safari, obnoxious
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That seems to make the assumption that creative ideas and experimentation are more important or more valuable for product innovation than having the resources and scale to actually mass-produce or "productize" new innovations. I don't think that's an unreasonable assumption, but I think it's easy to tip too far toward valuing "being the first to do something" and not recognizing the value of the other part.
In the US, there is precedent against the government telling churches what rituals they can and cannot perform. See: Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah (1993) [0]. I would not bank on the constitutionality the government telling Christians that they can't gather / must stream. Sure, they "should," but I doubt the government will go so far as to demand it through banning gathers >250.

[0]https://www.oyez.org/cases/1992/91-948
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