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I've hated phone calls all my life - I still dread making them today (and I'm a 40 year old man). I will literally miss extremely important business opportunities because I put off calling someone for too long. Texting and emails are life savers for me, and if people tell me "they're not the texting type", I'll simply disengage.
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> take a look at the absolute shit-show that is "Trends for You" in the Explore section.

I finally figured out a good solution for that. Click the gear and turn off personalized trends. Then set the country to a language you don't speak.

I don't know a lick of Latvian, but now Twitter is all about telling me what's going on over there.
Seems like a saner option (in that behavior is defined) than MySQL's ability to select columns in a group-by that are not aggregates / grouped-on.

e.g. this works in MySQL, and has for many years:

select a, b, c from table group by a

and you'll get undefined (but valid) b and c items from the grouped results per `a`. It's absurdly useful at times - if the non-grouped columns are just denormalized data, it doesn't matter which row they came from, and there's no need to spend time sorting/maxing/etc. And sometimes you truly don't care which entry you get, you just want an entry, e.g. to show a sample of what's in the group.
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Yes and thats my rationale as well. People get so uptight about the phrase addiction that they assume it means it's bad. Addiction is only bad when it interferes with other parts of your life that it shouldn't. Also I've found most people rely on it for its performance enhancing aspect which I'd argue is why it can be addictive for most people. I for one am more prone to quit coffee in the summer than in the winter simply because of the temperature outside.
This is a bad decision.

Subject tests helped me get into MIT from a public school in one of the states in the bottom 5 for education spending.

Take away the tests, and you take away the merit.
> Once they are in college, the impact of parents is quite minified

What an absolutely ridiculous thought. Literally our entire personality, our study habits, and our grit come from our parents.
Might look into a therapist who’s willing to do a video chat. I hope you feel better.
I'll support lockdowns when the governments (local, state, federal) provide an economic relief package to go with it for all the businesses that will suffer absurd losses.

It's real easy to shut down businesses and livelihoods when politicians are not responsible for the economic fallout.
It's hard to take seriously the opinion of anyone who reduces the appeal of a computing environment to the logo on the lid.
China should have reacted while it was there, before it spread to everywhere. But what's done is done.

By the way his point is that what happened in Italy is normal, old and frail people will die. No need to ruin everything to--maybe--extend their life for a few more years.

Pay old and sick people to quarantine?

-edit to add--
were saving x lives from Coronavirus at an enormous cost. How many others are dying because they can't get their current health issues dealt with in a normal manner due to the mobilization to fight this virus?

My guess is that a lot of people that normally would have lived, will now die from cancer, diabetes, heart issues etc etc.
> To people in this country, that's what leadership looks like, so if you grade based on leadership, that's what you're going to get.
I have a 2018 MBP, 2.9 GHz i9, 32 GB ram, Radeon Vega 20. The thing is like a portable server, I'm not sure what more features and power a laptop user would realistically neeed. (Obviously real servers are more powerful, but I worked at a company that ran MMO game servers written in Python [i.e. not that fastest] off of similarly spec'ed hardware a few years ago, it's certainly sufficiently for all of my development needs)
Back in the 1990s, I made music on my computer. My friend was a DJ on a late night show and he’d play one of my tracks one night a week, just because he could. If anyone recorded those broadcasts they’d have no way of finding out who made that music.

This could be a result of a similar situation I imagine.
Can you recommend some resources for someone trying to do the same?
Buying time:

a) Saves millions of lives.

b) Allows researchers to develop, produce and distribute a safe vaccine.
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When did you do that? If you said you did that in the late 00's I would call you nuts haha!
Yup. And all because people don't understand exponential growth.
I don't think that's vanity, I think they made a conscious tradeoff in service of thinner computers. It's a good tradeoff in my opinion: the thinness of the computer has more of an impact on my average day to day usage than being able to remove a faulty logic board.
Does Path2D cover it? If it does, seems like you could just draw to a canvas and save the result. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Path2D/Path...
Many biologically active chemicals have been identified in nature.

Aspirin (or at least salicylic acid compounds) is in wintergreen and willow bark. Opioids are derived from poppy sap, and eating too many poppyseeds will make you test positive for opium metabolites. Digoxin for heart failure and atrial fibrillation comes from foxgloves.

Coffee, specifically, has tons of data pointing to it improving cardiovascular health including this massive meta-analysis covering 1,279,804 people [1]. This meta-analysis shows a reduction in inflammation from consuming coffee [2].

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28967799
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>> Pro Tip: The MacBook Air line of today has taken over for the MacBook line of old.

If that's the case, I'd like it to become as light as — or even lighter than — the old MacBook, which weighed merely 2.03 pounds.

At this point, I'd love to have a Macbook Air with a battery that lasts "only" 6 hours, but weighs around 1.5 pounds. Hell, I'd pay extra for the option.
Did not know this. Is that due to browser issues or a specification issue?
The article says it is printed with a layer height of 2.5mm. There's no way it would work at such a high height. They probably meant .25mm.
Yes, but those mechanisms evolved when shaming meant doing so in person to someone in front of a dozen other people in a hunter-gatherer society.

That same mechanism amplified by social media is no longer as adaptive. It's natural and fairly reasonable to snap at someone if they are rude to you. But if you jam a bullhorn in their face and yell into that, it's no longer appropriate. The emotion and impulse are the same, but the technology changes the manifestation of them.
I honestly think that the need is great enough in this case, but there's no way the powers would ever be given back.

Mind you, once enough people die, many things will change.
The simple fact of the matter is you can't have a significantly long lock down, that's not possible. If the economy truly fails we all go down. You think fighting over: toilet paper, hand sanitizer, respirators and testing kits is crazy? Wait till people are fighting over food, water and shelter.
What's the difference between perceived charisma and charisma?
At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from.

The likelihood is generally higher, but I've received drop-shipped items from eBay that come directly from Amazon & Walmart warehouses. Took me by surprise at first, but it was still the lowest available price. Unsure if they are still cracking down on that.

eBay has always been fantastic for used/refurbished electronics compared to anything else.
>you're suggesting they'd just be trying to kill everyone instead of trying to treat them.

Triage isn't "trying to kill," it's choosing who gets to benefit from limited medical resources.
The Dell is 37% thinner than the Mac at the tallest point:

* Macbook Air 2020: 0.16–0.63 inch (0.41–1.61 cm) [1]

* Dell XPS 13 2019: 0.3"- 0.46" (7.8mm – 11.6mm) [2]

[1] https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/

[2] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
> I still can’t understand how they ever thought it was acceptable.

> I have a non-touchbar MBP.

You or your employer bought it. This leads them to believe it was acceptable.

[edit: this comment was pedantic and unhelpful. I do understand what the parent meant. See another comment down thread.]
California's population density cannot compare to Downstate New York, so there are some advantages to implement social distancing measures in CA than in NY/NYC.
The replies may be a long list of hardware snafus, however Apples largest hurdle to complete dominance is their lack of cloud services, their subpar cloud services (compared to Google and Microsoft), their refusal to allow users to set competing services as default (change is in the air?), their confusing and cumbersome iterations of the same concept (Photos especially), and the duality of iOS/MacOS vs Windows 10. They are making the same mistake Microsoft made for too long, where Microsoft wanted all Microsoft software to drive sales of Windows licenses.

- Apple has few top tier "services." Music is one, the app store is another they do offer. Maps has somewhat caught up to be good enough, but if I were a google maps user I wouldnt choose to switch. Photos and Device Backup are a mess.

- Apple should take being a software services company more seriously. If buying Adobe is out of the question, they need some kind of paid revenue stream such as Adobe Creative Cloud or Office 365, something that non-Apple users will buy and use. One of the smartest thing Apple ever did was release the iPad and make it work with Windows. Apple needs that gateway drug that draws non apple users back in without forcing a hardware purchase.

- I can use Google Photos on Windows, OneDrive on Android. Apple forcing an all or nothing into their ecosystem incentivizes me to choose nothing. AppleTV on Samsung tvs was a smart play, make more of them.
There are definitely problems with the China system, but this was not the example of where it failed.

More "democratic" countries would have provably handled it worse — even with the existing information available from China, they did act worse. They, uhm, still are acting worse.

Lockdown in China happened at fewer than 800 confirmed cases — in Italy at more than 9000!
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So I guess we have been talking past each other.

That is exactly my point Switch specs lead to the game designers targeting it, to create game designs that would accommodate a more interesting experience, given the target platform.

Had the same team started with XBOne and the gaming experience would have had a completely different design.
The clustering of complications and death from Covid-19 among the elderly and chronically ill, but not children (there have been only very rare deaths in children), suggests that we could achieve the crucial goals of social distancing — saving lives and not overwhelming our medical system — by preferentially protecting the medically frail and those over age 60, and in particular those over 70 and 80, from exposure.

Finally, some sanity.

The over 70 and chronically ill should be quarantined and provided with hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin, and the rest should "social distance" those at risk, but otherwise go about their business. That way the virus spreads quickly among the less at risk, they suffer no or minor symptoms, and develop herd immunity.
Sorry if it didn't come off that way, but I agree with you haha. Both problems need to be addressed in parallel.
Nice work, may be you should post this in Show HN.
The power to quarantine individuals and groups of infected people has been well-litigated. But it is a very new thing indeed to tell 7 or 8 million people at a time, around 99% of whom are still expected to be uninfected, that they are now threats, and are under some form of house arrest. This is unprecedented and has never been litigated.

New York's quarantine law, in particular, allows you to challenge the quarantine order in court after 3 days. It is then on the state to demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that you — specifically you — pose a clear threat to the safety of others, and that your confinement is the least restrictive means to contain this threat.
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Apple tends to use roughly the same physical design over many years, and every new physical design is usually accompanied by a price increase. Generally speaking, every new physical design requires a lot of work and upfront cost - so this is arguably fine.

Except the 2016-2019 models (except the new 16-inch model) didn't offer good value - largely because the "redesigned" keyboard was unreliable, the touch bar was laggy, and the thermals (super thin design) were not very great, leading to performance and heat issues.

They pushed the touch bar way too hard. I thought the virtual esc key in Terminal would be fine, but it ended up just being laggy and frustrating. The 2018 touchbar is somewhat marginally less frustrating, but people shouldn't have to deal with a laggy esc key after paying $1800.

Also - they were selling 'Pro' computers with 128GB of storage. Ridiculous.
But if the fatality rate is 20 times higher than the flu (I don't know), and if deaths due to the flu were 50,000 per year, then there could be 1,000,000 deaths due to this disease.

Maybe the appropriate reaction to 1,000,000 deaths is different than the appropriate reaction to 25,000 deaths.
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Every project you release is impressive, I gotta say. Love the UX of this one, making statistics accessible is soooo hard.
Eager to see the Flutter version!
Surface Pro is PC trying to be a Tablet. iPad Pro is a Tablet with additional capabilities to be use as a PC.

I dont see how one is right or one is wrong. It is a different take. Although I much prefer iPad Pro.
Don't kill your CISO for not knowing how a virus works
I don't know about the efficacy of Chloroquine in treating COVID-19 but I would imagine that we already know a lot about the safety of dosing people with the drug. Any one growing up in the tropics during the 70s or 80s took regular doses for malaria treatment. The main adverse reaction that often happened was a crazy amount of itching (it would last for 3 days and would not let up even when you were trying to fall asleep)
> Our leaders have a good idea of what's necessary.

Some leaders who are listening to doctors and scientists see what is necessary.

California should have probably gone into lockdown earlier, but I think this was probably as fast as they could have reasonably moved.
> How confident are you that we could reach a well engineered and proofed electronic voting platform that also adheres to theoretical rules around vote security?

I don't think we can with the current commodity devices / ecosystem, even assuming that voting system software is well-written. Keeping electronic-only systems secure from nation-state level adversaries is hard.
> You simply aren't permitted to lead if you have the wrong class background or the wrong ethnicity. (There's a reason all Senators look exactly the same.)

In what sense did, I dunno, Obama and McConnell look exactly the same?
The guys on it right now are rocking out but are not standing 6ft away from each other! :)

German surf band rocks out in bare feet and a plant taped to their microphone stand!

Excellent link- thank you for posting this- totally uplifted my spirits on a mentally rough day.

edit: Here's the band's youtube page and their about us blurb:

> il Civetto is a balkan/swing-gipsy-pop-whatsoever-band based in the beautiful city of Berlin. We're also touring a lot, so check out our facebookpage, we might be playing in your hometown ;)

https://www.youtube.com/user/ilcivetto/videos
I can get behind the lightweight and simple design, but my main problem is if I own a laptop, I lug around 1 item. If I have an ipad with a keyboard, I now have 2 items.

It would be different if this was a device that could switch between MacOS and IpadOS. But it's not. So it really seems like Apple is continually reinforcing the fact that we should be carrying around 30 separate items with us all at once to be prepared when we need to do one particular thing.

I can't wait until Apple gets this stuff sorted around because frankly I"m sick of them doing this stuff. The past 5 years they've been doubling down moving us toward USB-C but also making sure we need like 10 dongles or separate devices for their machines. Whoever is currently in their design team clearly is getting more say in the manufacturing of the devices than anybody in engineering I can say that. They need to make something that saves me time, not something that annoys me just like a PC.
As a 33 year old I really am confused by this statement.

While I love my texting, slack, etc, nothing replaces the low-latency engagement (intimacy) of a one on one phone call. I can parse someone's tone very easily on a phone call. Text rarely conveys such depth.
Plenty of websites will happily leak gigs of memory if left open. Browsers now try to aggressively lower resources given to background tabs but stupid still happens.

If his mother frequents just one or two misbehaving sites, a few GB of memory can easily vanish. Not to mention CPU and even GPU utilization can shoot up...
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> This UK government is beginning to wake up to the fact that it will lose all public support in coming months and is making belated attempts to shore up some public support.

lose support over what exactly? are you foreseeing a scandal of some sorts?
Studies show it wouldn't work if _everyone_ thought like that at the same time. But studies also show that you need to "pulse" the infection rate among low-risk populations in order to get past this in a controllable fashion by temporarily and partially lifting the restrictions on those people and letting them acquire immunity, while carefully isolating and supporting the high risk populations. The fundamental truth of the situation is: 60-70% will have to go through the wringer before this is over. "When", "which subset", and "how" will determine the fatality rate. One thing is absolutely clear: we _must_ completely isolate (and support) the elderly and those with severe pre-existing conditions. Large numbers of immune people could help with that. Complete shutdown of the economy (if such a thing were even possible) would condemn a lot of the vulnerable people to die, since they still need food and a lot of them also need medical care, which could become unavailable, like in Italy.
The root cause of this article seems to be that it's inconvenient having my adult kids in the house and how long must this go on.

The idea seems to be to somehow isolate at risk populations (the elderly, mostly) and resume business as usual. As pointed out by others, it's too late in the absence of a vaccine to do anything but try and reduce the infection rate, unless society decides to just let the cards fall where they may and sacrifice the old and sick.

How long it goes on would depend on the effectiveness of this strategy, and you can tell be monitoring the infection rate. China claims that it has essentially stopped new infections after ~3 months, so this doesn't seem like it will be an indefinite lockdown.
"Admissions should disregard such superficial peacocking and focus on metrics like the SAT that disentangle intellectual and academic potential from wealth."

Why? Not trying to troll here but you assume that intellectual potential leads to success. I remember reading an article - unfortunately I am not able to track it down/google it - that looked into exactly this issue.

There were free US high school selecting on just intellectual ability and when they looked at the careers of the students they were far less successful in their careers than you would expect from such a selection. (What stood out was that they seem to be much happier than average persons).

The counter example was Harvard that selected on many criteria. The article mentioned a guy getting rejected because he had "pig ears" (not the official rejection but a note taken in an interview or something). The unfortunate fact is that rich, famous, driven, well connected people will be the better selection of success than intellectual ability. George W Bush was unlikely a brilliant intellectual. Yet he went to the top schools and him becoming president showed that this was the right decision by the schools that took him.
No, Italy's real issue is they're have the oldest population in Europe and the highest per/capita smokers in Europe. Since Covid-19 hits that demographic hardest (elderly with respiratory issues), they have the highest mortality rate. The average age of those dying from this in Italy is 80.
Frank-Lin Distillers Products is a huge one, with thousands of individual products. Animats has written on them in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059821

Others: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I, er, distilled several sources into my own account:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/BzTu6Ot3xUmPeiIIYgDZAA

Another interesting diversion is to track when various now-widely-recognised alcohol brands emerged as notable, largely through Google's Ngram Viewer.

Several rums emerged durin US Prohibition. Smirnov and numerous others (vodka and whiskey mostly) during the 1950s. Several major beers in the 1960s and 1970s, and others since in the 80s, 90s, etc.

"Irish Pub" as a distict trend as far more recent than I'd thought -- and I'm talking of so-themed bars outside of Ireland itself. 1990s.

Mostly it's all mass production, marketing, advertising, and branding.

And yes, it's possible to trace individual names to before this era, but not as mass-produced, widely-available, internationally (or even nationally) distributed products. They served small, mostly local, markets.
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South Korea reformed their pandemic response procedures and preparations after MERS. The EU, UK, and US did not. Not sure about Taiwan.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co...
And now the tide is swinging back a bit as people get fed up with fakes and commingling at Amazon. At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from.

I rarely use Amazon for this reason, and order from Target, Walmart, and Ebay instead.

Amazon also plays games, like not letting you sort search results by "Best Selling."
People in this thread (and the original article) emphasise building stuff to help you get job interviews and do better in your job.

I'd argue that's the wrong way of looking at it, yes having something to show might be a signal booster on your resume, but it should be a side effect.

Building stuff is only fun if you want to do it, the motivation and passion has to be there, otherwise you'll just be building something for the sake of it. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely useful to gain knowledge from building, even if it's just a toy project, but you'll get so much more out of it if you're building something you're passionate about.
What do you not want? A bunch of Cisco SD-WAN, Webex vulnerabilities?
No, because in other countries the fatalities and new cases have grown in tandem, not on a delay.

This is more indicative that the epidemiological models were somewhat accurate and the true CFR when you catch the mild cases is much closer to 1% than 3.5%.
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Can the iPad and iPhone sustain the performance? I think that’s the kicker. Your regular laptop even an air will have a fan. The A series chips look amazing on paper but iPad and iPhones don’t have the cooling for sustained performance.