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Is there a Linux distribution that fully supports the desktop version of Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)? I would love to migrate to Linux, but need Office to work on papers and presentations with the rest of my lab. LibreOffice doesn't cut it. I tried Wine in the past and it was too buggy.
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portable tent hospitals

Santa Clara County Regional Medical Center put up their tents last week.

California has enough disasters each year that the emergency systems are ready to go.
We actually do have emergency hospitals, though we've historically used ships and been liberal in sending them to aid foreign countries.

Obviously we should further extend that strategy for the continental US.
This only makes sense if there was an initial court ruling for a set amount of damages.

And then later another ruling for additional damages by a lower court, and then a higher court reduced the additional amount.
This theory itself is already more credible than Snopes.com.. Of course part of the plan is to NOT make us realize one is headed directly our way, until they're fully set up and ready.
Sorry to hear this, I dug through your profile to see if maybe I can help. I can't guarantee anything, of course, but we're hiring Go developers at Sourcegraph and are 100% remote so if you meet the other qualifications here please do consider applying with us: https://github.com/sourcegraph/careers/blob/master/job-descr...
Many of the streamers I watch on Twitch use Streamlabs for multiple things including donations. Can't vouch for them personally but they are certainly the most common on that platform.
Perhaps not very well. I’ve browsed HN with half a dozen phones, a dozen computers, and several browsers on each and every one. And from time to time I clear cookies within my browsers just because.

The other dimension is it’s a low priority relative to the invisible work on HN that makes HN what it is because of what doesn’t surface like spam and flamethrowers and blatant astroturfing and injection attacks.

If it’s really important, why not hack something up yourself?
They could tear down all internal walls to make each hospital into one large room. That would be very counterproductive, but they could.
Thank you so much for this comment and the fantastic insight that you shared. Actionable advice like this is gold.

I've been causally preparing for a market downtown for about six months, but I wish I was in a better position than I am. That being said, I'm in a lot better shape than a lot of folks are and I'm hoping things can turn around with as many lives saved as possible.
yeah - except surplus profits for decades built more destination vacation sites, luxury hotels and shopping malls, and not rank-and-file housing, due to profits.. you are enthusiastically adding to the cash flow of those decisions... when does this end?
Small startup founder here. We did a hiring freeze and cancelled our contract with a recruiter, called an oncoming employee about slight role adjustments due to company plan change, which they were cool with.

Really glad we've got a ton of runway. Keeping everyone in mind who are less burn-fortunate. My only advice, having done a few big layoffs before: Cut now, cut once, cut deep.
Nothing wrong with crutches. If they don't work for you don't assume them useless to others. Ditto the "reward" function that @throwit-hey15 used so successfully.
Not if you're trying to do a stable sort.

If you've got a list of people that is already sorted by name, and you want to sort them by age but still preserve the name sorting for each age (ie, if Alice and Bob are both 30 years old, I still want Alice to appear before Bob in the list), then having a defined way to break ties greatly simplifies the code.
The way Firefox does.
May I suggest starting with Trump Tower?
Real-world performance from Graviton2 processors
I look at it the other way. Why does it all have to be done at a state level? Because that's how things have always been? Meh. There are very clear efficiencies to be gained by coordinating response to events like this at a national level, and it's not like individual states are about to declare independence. Over time the structure of the US could end up being more of a weakness than a strength. It's not as if the virus respects state borders.
The energy density of uranium is such that the amount of waste generated is extremely small. The entirety of the nuclear waste generated by the US nuclear power industry could fit in a football field with a depth of 10 yards [1]. Put it in a concrete casket and bury it underground. Nuclear waste is a tiny sliver of the amount of industrial waste produced every year.

1. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-nuclea...
As I wrote at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/567405/5132 , I have a strong suspicion that Arch Linux dropping the FHS is the tipping point, and adherence to the FHS is now the exception not the norm.
Who treats them on the ship? It certainly wouldn't be healthy medical professionals.
Citation needed. Everything I've read says that it's significantly more deadly than the flu for all ages and that more importantly the error bars on any mortality number are absolutely huge.
Ask HN: What alternatives to Doxygen do you like?
What did you use to build the site on? Custom HTML/CSS from scratch or something else? Looks nice
> How does such a contagious virus simply stop spreading?

It's quite simple: noone is permitted to go outside without a mask, and they ramped up testing and manufacturing masks, like any reasonable country would.

Meanwhile in the west ,,masks are not important for people, just for doctors''.
Half of me: Feynman! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw

Other half: it's a little tiring to be hyper rational and pedantic all the time.
Want granularity? Just hold alt+shift while pressing the volume buttons to adjust the volume in quarter-box increments. You can do it without looking and it’s way easier than moving that slide on that gimmick touch bar. Works for brightness, too.
what's the company if you don't mind me asking?
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This is actually one of my favorite things about Hacker News. I end up redoing landing pages each time we get comments like this.
Man that headline - sensationalism at its finest.
I don't think there is any evidence that recyling air has any use here given that these wards would be filled with already sick patients and healthcare professionals.
You would benefit from a 4-core machine. Even the dual core current models are a good 20% faster than what you have now, but you'd be amazed at how much better the 4 core models feel.
The thing is that this is inevitable with capitalism. Money will always end up influencing government power, leading to a plutocracy who make their money through anti-competitive rent-seeking behavior instead of innovation. That's precisely what's happened the world over, if you haven't noticed.

The pure Platonic ideal of capitalism or even anything approximating it is impossible in practice. It has never happened, and it will never happen. It is just as utopian and pie-in-the-sky as "from each according to their ability, and to each according to their need."
Right now there are 53k hospital beds in the state of New York, and 3k of them are ICU beds. The prediction [1] is that in 45 days we'll need 55k-110k beds for the severe cases of Covid19, from which up to 37k ICU beds. Now, maybe you can't make ICU beds in hotels, but maybe you can make regular hospital beds. They'll be useful too.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/cuomo-says-trump-is-dispatch...
There's no concern for the spread of infection if you designate a facility (no matter if it's a sports hall or a cruise ship) for holding and treating only known patients of a single disease.

Yes, they're not suitable for quarantine of possibly infected people - but it seems that we're past that stage, with massive community spread, we're not going to quarantine anyone, we're just going to ask possibly infected people to please try and stay at home if it's not too inconvenient; I mean, most countries don't even bother testing the possibly infected contacts anymore.
We use StackPath in a similar capacity to the one being pitched here. They support both containers and VMs, and have a very good spread of locations. Their heritage is a CDN - they were formerly MaxCDN and Highwinds - so their connectivity to eyeball networks is excellent.

We had some minor reliability issues with the edge platform early on, but their support and responsiveness was excellent.

We are very happy with them!
To produce electricity as part of a state-planned economy. It turns out governments are just as capable of cutting corners and making poor decisions like having a positive void coefficient, combined control/catalyst rods, and a lack of secondary containment.
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Tesorio (YC S15) is hiring data engineers with Kubernetes skills
Some previous discussions on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8023005

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257152
And here I am, a Lenovo and Linux fan, thinking this is amazing and they've finally got the tablet to be a computer.

iPads don't run iOS. ipadOS has changed quite a bit from iOS - they are not the same thing.
I have a slightly upgraded 2018 Macbook Pro right now that does most of my work really well. It has 32gb of RAM, an upgraded GPU and the i7-8750H chip.

I want more cores, faster cores, and more thermal headroom. A Mac Mini would be a slight performance bump from where I am right now, but the ROI isn't really there.

My workload varies, but I am a freelancer with 3-4 contracts at any given time which vary from wordpress sites or rails apps, vue apps, python apps, up to 'big data' processing pipelines. I usually have a handful of services running for any client, redis, es, postgres, mysql, etc... and the Docker/mac story needs work.

I essentially don't want to ever wait on IO ever again. That is another reason I would like a full desktop chassis: I want PCIe slots so that I can outfit them with something like an Optane SSD.

Attemping to spec out something that would perform better than my current MBP:

3.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz)
64GB 2666MHz DDR4
Intel UHD Graphics 630
1TB SSD storage
10 Gigabit Ethernet (Nbase-T Ethernet with support for 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb, and 10Gb Ethernet using RJ‑45 connector)

Same generation chip that I have now. Same core count. Higher boost clock. $2600 is the final price and that is certainly not worth it.
So turn off the air and open the balcony doors.
I also saw a report showing a co-morbidity with tobacco smokers. I'll see if I can find it.
> Such product would cannibalise their line, so they'll never make it.

Apple does this quite frequently.
I think headlines like these are extremely detrimental to the global fight of this virus.

Whether or not you're at risk (age, health problems, etc), you are a vehicle for transporting the virus and so while there is no need for "panic", it's both respectful and pragmatic to distance so that the virus can be contained.
If anyone's looking for a 13 inch 2015 mbp with one battery cycle count, let me know. :) Its a dual core 8GB though.
It does not matter how much money the US government takes in taxes. They will continue to spend more than that causing a deficit. For example if tax revenues increased by 500 bln, that could be used to decrease the deficit by 500 bln if spending was not increased. However, what would happen is that the government would increase spending by say 1 trillion so the deficit would continue to grow despite higher tax revenue.
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We'll fairly rapidly have a group of infected-but-functional and (a bit later) recovered medical professionals.
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Bill Gates suggests tracking vaccinated people with “digital certificates”
How China Is Locking Down Half a Billion Citizens (Feb 21)
Gov. Cuomo a couple days ago asked cities in the NY state to identify where they could fit improvised beds. The quota for NYC was 5,000. Seems like hotels are an obvious choice, given their optimal layout and how empty they are

https://cornellsun.com/2020/03/16/cuomo-proposes-converting-...
It looks like the pricing is actually seconds base, so you would have 2 * 3600s * 0.000001015$/s = 0.007308$
I like how you've seamlessly switched from the decade-old conspiracy theory that has become untenable to this legend where it "didn't pan out". (Just barely, and probably thanks to opposition in the far corners of the internet)

The alternative explanation, which has far fewer moving parts and doesn't require an assumption of bad faith, is that the Mac App Store was obvious after the iOS Store success, and so was a major push in security/sandboxing beyond chmod -R 600.

It's five years since SIP was introduced, and none of the dire predictions were correct. The mechanism to disable it has not changed even incrementally. But almost no one bothers to disable it because it doesn't actually stop you from doing anything, while it does seem to be effective at stopping malware.
Coronavirus puts Seattle-area grocery workers on front lines of pandemic
Because the nature of response varies so much in between different locations and local expertise is often best poised to deal with local problems. Federal resources are better for things like logistics (ship 500,000 masks to where they're needed), but New York probably knows how to get aid to New York best.

Ignoring local expertise to blindly chase efficiency of large-scale enterprise is perilous.
Good call. We have a neat visualization we want to build to show what's happening, but we don't need to wait on that to make it more obvious.
> There are a lot of obstacles for temps/contractors to gain remote access at google.

I thought that Google were all-in on BeyondCorp, which doesn't require a secure perimetre. Did they not actually convert everything, or is it still in progress?

(edit: removed a non-constructive suggestion)
The argument was that the plains were man made, that there were forests there before, and then suddenly there were no men left, only grass and buffalo.
The S&P lost 50% in 2008, and we survived. Mnuchin did not predict 20% unemployment.

"A Treasury official said Mnuchin was not providing a forecast but trying to illustrate the potential risks of inaction." (literally the 3rd sentence).

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/mnuchin-warns-senators-of-20...
Last I tried it, it didn't work on Firefox, and was somewhat unstable.

Too bad, really. Loom seemed nice.
Given that China managed to reverse the epidemic, it is worth seeing how they did it.
It doesn’t need to use any additional space, most $40 ones just attach to the toilet seat. And you save water and time not having to take a shower.
Office and OneDrive work really well. The new files system is pretty functional and getting better. There’s a decent ecosystem of utility apps now. Pushbullet is pretty handy for example. For scripting Pythonista is awesome, and together with Working Copy has a decent Git work flow.

It really depends what your work is. My iPad is my main mobile computer. I do have a desktop, but use the iPad heavily. At work at various meetings there are regularly 2 to 5 of use taking notes or referring to material on iPads. Some with pencils, others with keyboard cases.

Of course it’s not right for everyone, it just needs to be really good at the things it’s good for. That’s all. If a laptop or Surface works better for you that’s cool.
IntelliJ tools always felt like molasses to me. Maybe has something to do with them being done in Java. Most of my dev tools are native and the feeling is totally different.
What makes distinct keywords for end blocks nice in your opinion? I feel they are maybe overly verbose.
The US did this during WWII, I don't see why it can't be done again.

They also took some more complex designs which required skilled labor and hand working (the 40mm Bofors comes to mind as an example) and modified the design significantly so it could be easily mass produced. This was in the days before CAD when everything was done on paper too
As far as I can tell, this is the first keyboard with 1mm of travel that Apple has made. Before the recent butterfly debacle, their keyboards had as low as 1.2mm travel (on the iMac keyboard) or more. The much-maligned butterfly design got down to 0.5mm travel.

So this scissor design with 1mm of travel seems to be something new. The inverted-T arrow keys are not new, but the scissor mechanism itself is, a refinement of previous designs.
The NYT article has some additional context, including quotes from interviews. Generally we prefer an article like that to press releases (especially corporate ones), unless it's unusually interesting.

Paywalls suck, of course, but HN's rule is that it's ok as long as there's a workaround. Users usually post workarounds in the threads, including in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Pretty much the entire root cause of the US’s weak response to the pandemic can be attributed to the poor coordination of the CDC and the FDA. That the state and local governments were able to step up and do their thing will probably be what ends up saving us.
It probably does. I have a $20 no-name Bluetooth KB + Trackpad. It works perfectly with the current iPadOS.
> Still got my fingers crossed for a desktop machine that isn’t a Mac Pro and isn’t a Mac Mini

People have been waiting eons for this, and it seems like you'll just have to keep waiting.

From what I can remember, Apple haven't done anything like this since the G4 cube, and they've never given indications they'll do it again. Everyone was praying the new Mac Pro would be the magic xMax, but it just isn't.

Personally I don't think anything wrong with being tied to the iMac display, given it's one of the best you can get.
A very very bad idea written by an economist.
It does not take into account a lot of factors, the least is the number of death.

The age distribution would be an other.
> Because the nature of response varies so much in between different locations and local expertise is often best poised to deal with local problems.

Is that really true here? I can certainly see an urban vs rural divide, but beyond that I can’t see what makes individual states all that different.
Does anyone know how important it is to look for a job immediately if you don't think your job will exist for much longer?

I have the funds to last about a year unemployed + I wanted to work on my own software projects for a few months. However, I'm concerned that if I don't hop back in the job market quickly enough, the decent paying jobs might dry up.
I'm a contract full-stack web developer. I've been "laid off" in that my last remaining client, who was already behind on her bills, told me to stop all work and she has no idea if/when she'll be able to pay her outstanding bills. I have no idea where next month's rent is going to come from.

If anybody needs some contract web dev done, check out my info at https://albright.pro/ and reach out ASAP. I will cut you one hell of a deal if you can at least help keep a roof over my head.
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I don't know either. It's weird, and I don't know enough about disease or epidemics to know.
If neither /bin/sh nor /usr/bin/env are standard but both are defacto standards, then where is the relative value of `#!/usr/bin/env sh` over `#!/bin/sh` ?
just wanted to say that rather than updating resumes, update your linkedin profile. most opportunities i have gotten has been through linkedin. also, once you have a linkedin profile completed, you can import it into indeed and import your indeed profile into ziprecruiter.

also, there are many services out there that will export your linkedin profile as a resume.

good luck everyone, i might be joining you guys soon enough :P
I very much feel your pain about the form factor. Apple seems to be moving away from the smaller form factors which is a shame. I like the look of the new 16" MPB but there is no way I'm lugging that around everywhere. Hmpf.
If anyone from Slack reads this: One tiny idea. Just because I entered a dot or a word into a chat doesn't mean I don't expect to find that chat or group in the exact same spot next time.

By all means put a symlink in a virtual Drafts folder but leave the original alone.
This is the pendulum swinging back to the "5 colos scattered around the globe" architecture.
If you buy a futures contract, you are required to accept delivery of some fixed amount. You don't have to take "all the oil party B produces", just what you agreed to ahead of time. This protects you from upward price trends, and the producer from downward price trends.
Khan Academy is still hiring, though our focus is backend and full-stack engineers right now[1]. I hope you're able to find new work soon!

This is an odd time for us. We're an online education non-profit. With all of the school closings[2], we're seeing a huge spike in traffic. Fortunately, our infrastructure can handle it, but we are still spending some effort staying on top of the rapidly changing traffic patterns.

Simultaneously, we're in the midst of a huge project to rebuild our backend (porting from Python 2 to Go)[3]. So we're juggling a lot right now, but will be fine.

If there are folks out there with backend skills in particular, we're hiring and our engineering team is half remote (all in the US/Canada).

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/careers

[2]: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/6117702550643507...

[3]: http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm
A fun fact: "hospital", "hostel", and "hotel" all come from the same Latin root (brought into French and then English at different times https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hospital#Etymology).
As an illustrator, the workflow on the iPad Pro using a tool like Procreate is amazingly simple, quick and portable.
Compared to something like my old com tablet, I am much more likely to grab the iPad and pencil and draw, then go to my studio where my computer is setup and draw.

Even the difference between wacom/graphics tablet and iPad with the pencil is almost night and day, no lag or parallax on the iPads is a huge draw card.

For an illustrator, the iPad is a perfect (digital) tool.
Wow, these are fantastic insights that almost exactly match the language that was used during the announcement at our company. They were planning on a raise in the next few months and this hit them pretty hard. I don't blame them for for the steps they've taken as, frankly, it's the only thing that makes financial sense.

Thanks again for this comment, and I'll absolutely be subscribing to your newsletter.
More software engineers should build Kubernetes clusters like this at home...

So they don't have to do it at their work.

(Unless they work at a large enough company to justify one.)
I haven’t been able to find a good description, but I suspect it means there is a known history of high bp (which indeed is usually defined as you wrote)

However, there is confounding issue of bp medicine - there was a lancer article about ibuprofen and some kinds of bp medicine causing increased ACE2 expression, which is suspected to increase susceptibility to sarscov2 and worsen covid symptoms.

So, it could be that the blood pressure isn’t actually the risk factor, but treatments for it. Will take time to tell