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But the purpose of schools has always been to "teach the academic side." The whole system until recently has been that schools give you the foundational knowledge, and you learn the skills at work -- in olden days, corporations would actually train you on the job.

But then:

1) Employers decided that it's better to lay off people you don't need anymore, which meant that

2) Employees realized it's more lucrative to jump from employer to employer than maintain loyalty for a company, which meant that

3) Employers realized it's not productive to spend 6 months training a junior who's going to leave in 8.
You can download digital games. There aren’t many people who buy modern consoles and PC games who need physical copies.

And then other retailers like Target will remain open because they sell medicine and food — and physical video games.

There is no reason for GameStop to remain open.
I'm excited about the fluent GraphQL ecosystem and to see where it goes! Using the nice syntax of GraphQL does get lost a little bit ofcourse, but having the benefits of being able to "compose" to some degree and not dealing with strings is nice.

From the SQL ecosystem, jOOQ is so amazing:
http://www.jooq.org/

This Ruby one was one of the first ones I came across https://github.com/contentful-labs/gqli.rb

And then we've been putting together a list here as well:
https://github.com/hasura/awesome-fluent-graphql
In Italy there were no deaths for people under 30 so far.
I spoke with a father (a pulmonary and critical care doctor) about this.

Based on the specs, he estimates that a single ventilator could support up to 4 patients [0].

The bigger issue is the control system. Ideally, a ventilator will allow the patient to decide when to breath, and provide assistance; only forcing a breath when the patient fails to breath at all.
WIth multiple patients, this is impossible, and you are forced to use continuous mandatory ventilation mode, where the ventilator cycles air pressure at a constant pattern regardless of what the patient is doing. Modern ventilators do not even support such a mode; although it can be emulated by programming the ventilator such that it would never detect a breath.

Another issue is doctor error. When programming a ventilator you can either program it in terms of air-flow or pressure. With multiple patients, programming in terms of air-flow is almost certainly wrong, and would cause a change in condition of one patient to negatively effect the treatment of all attached patients. This problem goes away with pressure based controls. However, if you have doctors who are used to using flow based controls, and are overworked, while using a novel treatment method, I would expect to see accidents where they either continue to use flow-based controls, or do switch to pressure based but are less effective at it due to it being yet another change from their normal practice.

Another downside is that all patients attached to the same ventilator need the same settings. You could potentially mitigate this cheaply by using analog pressure step-downs on the valves, but this just compounds the above problems, and introduces even more room untested elements to the equation.

[0] The exact number depends on how much airflow you want to provide. Apparently, in cases such as this, you actually want to provide relatively little airflow to avoid further damaging the lungs by over-inflating them.
guess they prioritize shipping and just debug in production!
Venice is "dead" right now because the people who really live there can't compete with tourists for space. If you banned tourism then normal people would fill back in.
Emergency Surveillance During Covid-19 Crisis
Something that occurred to me was a "hot closet" of some kind that was held at a temperature high enough to accelerate deactivation of the virus without damaging the masks. Perhaps around 130 F would be the right temperature.

Advantage would be that it would not require liquids of any kind and not be labor intensive.
What are you talking about ?

> deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so
> Programming, much more so than accounting/law, is an activity that many more people like to do for personal "fun". Because of this, it's inevitable that some employers tend to want to identify them and prioritize them over others.

The fact that I do programming at the weekend for fun on my personal projects does not in the slightest imply that I have fun at the kind of project that I have to do for the employer. So, judging by this criterion is a really bad idea of the (potential) employer.
We were in the process of finding a house to rent before this all went down. Now we're stuck in an apartment with our stir-crazy toddler and are both supposed to be working full hours from home. It's.. difficult, to say the least.
Ask HN: Any ideas for fun / bonding things to do via Zoom?
As many of us are working remotely now, perhaps it would be good to organise something fun to do via Zoom group chat.

Any ideas?
Unless they ride on purpose built/adapted roads I doubt it'll happen in any realistic time.
Yeah, it's not great. I've been stuck in my flat with some symptoms for the past ... week or so now?

I've still been working from home, and video calls with co-workers + conversations with friends/family help; but it's not been the highlight of my year. No real idea when it will end, either.

I managed to get out and try to go for a walk at what I thought was a reasonably unsociable time, but it was still busy enough and I was passing people enough that it seemed irresponsible to repeat.
Entertainment is not really essential though.
Stealing and cloning in sales messaging
"Goodbye Horses" is such an interesting blend of styles and emotions. Parts of her singing sound influenced by The Smiths. The whole thing is in a major key yet manages to sound melancholy or even ominous. Maybe some of that is its association with "Silence of the Lambs" or the mystery around Q Lazzarus, but I've always enjoyed this song and it never gets old for me. There are many cover versions out there too.
This is actually the most hopeful thing I've read in a while. It makes me think that we're going to see a "Second Renaissance".

With the free time people have to think, and some deep introspection about their true worth as a wage slave, we'll see things change drastically after this is over.

This is possibly the best thing that could have happened to humanity.
I'm sorry but if you can take a shot of Karkov vodka and a shot of Stoli and not tell the difference there is something very broken with your taste buds - regardless of what the law says. That's ignoring the headache you're going to have after a night of drinking Karkov.

Source: I was poor in college and had the misfortune of dancing with Karkov on more than one occasion.

For those of you who have never had the misfortune (it only comes in plastic bottles):
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/karkov+vodka+usa
Pythonista is really very good, and it is easy to pip install pure Python libraries. Too bad Python is not one of my favorite languages. The Raskell app used to provide a decent Haskell environment in iOS, but, file access stopped working. Really too bad since it was fun to hack Haskell on airplanes, etc.

Swift Playgrounds on iOS are very interesting and makes me wonder if XCode might someday live in iOS, with appropriate code sandboxing.

Apple has made iOS and macOS app development much simpler with SwiftUI, simple enough that I enjoy using it. I think Apple will jump through hoops in the coming years to make app development easier.
Lol. Let’s see how they implant the rules. Or crashtappen wins?
Yeah if he burned his coworkers like he did, I wonder how often he has done it to benefit himself.
I dunno what the state of affairs for consoles is, but on PC, I can't think of a single game where you actually need a physical copy. if it exists, it's probably too obscure to be stocked at gamestop anyway.
Right, but that's exactly what a prime minister should be doing. His role should be to coordinate decision making amongst the relevant subordinates. I have no reason to doubt Boris will do a fine job at this.
The trade-offs of choosing privacy as a nascent social network
Yea that was pretty much how I viewed it as well. There seemed to be a lot of research on p2p research but nat made everything impractical. That being said nat was an necessity due to ip4, but given how widespread it is now I somehow doubt ip6 is really going to make p2p easier
The theory behind this mindset is: you're either born smart, or you're born stupid, and there's really not much you can do (i.e. education) to change that. The people born stupid get dull, repetitive jobs, the people born smart get to work at exciting places like Tesla. This sort of eugenicist thinking is frowned upon in most contexts, but somehow seems to have taken a foothold in, of all places, software development.
In many areas, the gym business was very competitive, and the profits were very small, if any.

It may be that whoever has the deepest pockets survives and others go out of business.

I guess the question is how long they have to bleed money until the customers come back.
That’s disingenuous - the article’s title makes it clear to be attempt to summarise coffee history.
Tin-Foil-Theory: They are trying to keep open to today for the release of DOOM Eternal and Animal Crossing.
Scientists “Firmly Determine” That SARS-CoV-2 Was Not Engineered
I live a few hours from Bergamo. I'm writing these things anyway. Please don't try and shut people down who are posting factual information by claiming it's "disrespectful" - disrespectful to whom? The medics I quoted?

The Business Insider article you link to is saying exactly the same things as the articles I cite about what happened in the USA in 2018: makeshift wards, extraordinary measures, more and more patients needing ventilation. That's what it looks like when a lot of patients turn up sick with pneumonia at once.

Videos are dramatic but not enough to understand what's going on by themselves. You realise that, I hope?
I agree … it seems like a poor word choice, given nothing can really be certain at this stage. I think a term like rationale would be more suitable …
I'm probably too late to this topic: but if your skills are related to Robotics and you were laid off let me know at mat@weeklyrobotics.com and I'll share your profile with all the readers of Weekly Robotics newsletter.
Multiple GameStop employees at different locations across the bay area openly mocked me / laughed at me for trying to buy a used GameCube in ~2016. Haven't set foot in a store since. Good riddance.
Personal legal fees? What minimum wage worker would defy a police officer's order to close? I highly doubt they arrest on site....
So, the terminology I've used since around 2013:

* API documentation: stuff like "type signatures"

* Reference documentation: the specification of the language

* Tutorials: long-form text that explains things

I gave a talk about the Bay Area Rust Meetup about this, but it seems like maybe it's lost to history :(

Anyway, rustdoc makes this distinction in a sense because it only provides API documentation, which I believe is what you're calling "reference" documentation. mdbook provides the longer form factor.

Most libraries don't have a language spec, since they're not a language, so they have categories one and three.
Imperial is the hidden workhorse of the UK government and has been for many years. They do a lot of great research work and yes, they proper from that work but, they are very good at it.
>That being said, I did not understand until I was 17 that you could...just open a browser...and the internet was on.

Same boat. When I was at friends houses I'd see them just open IE without logging in and wonder how that worked.
Ah, in that case, carry on. (I've often wondered what to do with whey leftover from yogurt or ricotta making at home.)
It doesn't sound like that to me at all. It says evidence supporting the response, not evidence of the efficacy.
When does their stock hit a price of 0? Currently trading @ 3.95~
$10M in free cloud hosting resources for Covid-19 relief
I would bet money that the vast majority of coffee consumed globally is purchased from another entity and already roasted more than 1 week before.
Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy
Would India's relatively slow infection curve relate to poor reporting, control measures, or other factors - perhaps widespread chloroquine use?
Accountants are required to article for a minimum of two years before achieving their designation. Perhaps we need a similar apprenticeship program for software developers. That would balance expectations on both sides.

To add: Other professions such as lawyer and doctor also mandate similar apprenticeship timeframes. It's time to take a similar approach for software development so that it can be taken seriously as a profession.
Amazon looking to buy four Fairway stores amid coronavirus chaos
In comparison to the Network request that the GraphQL query will be launching, ES6 Proxy property access performance will be insignificant.
Yeah, the Dropbox example doesn't make sense. Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale and for general enterprise purposes. Similarly, regional/state-sponsored testing is hard because it needs to work at scale and for a large population of people.

Running these kits out of your garage is like running a tweaked, existing file system for a home network. Not completely trivial, but it's not Dropbox, guys.
This is wreckless toward human life. You can buy games online through different means including the system stores and platforms like steam. If you need to by a system you can still order one online. It's not a critical function of society since there are other forms of entertainment as well including books, movies, writing and various other hobbies. This is reprehensible behavior and will backfire on GameStop in the sense of PR. Even if they stay open, the fact that they are asking their employees to clean the stores with no cleaning supplies and to buy cleaning supplies from their own money to be reimbursed later is deplorable. If GameStop is shut down tomorrow do you think those employees will still be reimbursed? No. So they will be out of a job and out of any cash they spent on cleaning supplies. GameStop can rot in hell with this PR disaster written on their tombstone.
I woke up this morning with this song in my head after listening to it a week ago and then playing it to my wife yesterday. I wonder how many brain-hours that song has consumed already ...
I can provide some context here - from my experimentation, after 10 partial updates the contrast is notably worse, but doing a full screen refresh resets things sufficiently that the screen looks sharp again.

To reduce degradations further, whenever UpNext boots it does a cycle of 10 full screen refreshes - overkill certainly, but I think of this as the “cleaning cycle.” If the screen ever starts to fade, I power cycle it, and it’s fine for a long time.

I’ve been running it continuously like this for 2 years now, and while the screen is a bit less sharp than it was originally, it’s still in good shape - the photos in the article are from this week.
You can try making Norwegian brown cheese (https://cheese.com/geitost/) , which is essentially browned whey.
Show HN: Pwgen compiled as WASM for the CLI, a custom element, and ES module
When I was a teenager in Massachusetts in 1982 I bought the album "Tragic Figures" by a band called Savage Republic on a lark, based solely on the hand-printed album cover. It turned out to be very strange post-punk industrial music. I almost fell out of my chair at the movie theater watching "Silence of the Lambs" when the song "Real Men" from that album came on.
> If you group it more closely to creative fields like design or writing—both fields where portfolio reviews have been standard hiring practice for decades—then it makes sense to expect to see projects. If you view it closer to a professional services role—accounting, legal, etc—then your comparison makes sense.

> I'm not advocating for either view as the "correct" opinion either, I just think the disagreement has less to do with what qualifies a junior and more to do with how we conceptualize development as a profession.

I believe that there exists a good criterion to judge: If the employer considers programmers to be "fungible", programming needs to be viewed as professional services role. On the other hand, if you are considered and catered for like a "creative rockstar" by the employer (because the employer will have a hard time replacing you), it should be considered a creative profession.

Judge for yourself what is closer to the truth. :-)
These executives are showing their true selves in this crisis and it is absolutely disgusting. From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, these are not idols, they are parasites on our society.
Hospitals Tap AI to Help Manage Coronavirus Outbreak
I recall vividly an article about the importance of physical fitness and in particular stability exercises in old age. The author proposed that a lot of people die from a broken hip, but you don’t see it in the death statistics because the proximal cause of death is pneumonia brought on by confinement to bed after the injury. The domino you have some control over is not falling and hurting yourself so badly in the first place.

The flu doesn’t last as long, but it brings fluid to the lungs. Protecting from infection is huge.
Times are not yet hard enough for people to know the true meaning of 'essential'. Gods willing, we won't have to learn.
Considering shorting that stock...no way this ends well
Thanks. I was wondering what Vim-oriented approaches there were to Zettelkasten. I was thinking Emacs & Org Mode might be the best way to go.
For $10.month you could get hundreds of games for consoles right now. So if being able to purchase used affordable games was their angle that just isn't the case. And of course all major titles can be safely purchased online in physical or digital form.
> It's equivalent to saying the oil producing companies only get x% of global car sales.

Cars are not really made of oil, gasoline is. And this was probably not the best of examples. In most oil companies extraction/exploration (raw material) and refining (processed product) actually split the profits pretty evenly, all things considered. Marketing (gas stations) gets pretty much the breadcrumbs and relies for profit more on selling Coke and sandwiches than actual gas.

This is unlike most other cases where the raw materials are worth far less than the processed ones, and the bulk of the profit goes to the final manufacturer rather than the raw material exporter.
C++ Testing and Fuzzing Resources
>But we know that unbounded growth is neither healthy nor possible.

Why is it unhealthy? From where I'm standing, this growth better be essentially unbounded for our purposes. This value's growth represents the advancement of our technology and society. If it stops growing then it indicates that we have stopped advancing.

I think this growth, for practical purposes, is unbounded. Even if we somehow hit a wall and are unable to advance our technology itself, we can start harnessing the resources in our solar system and engineer more complex systems to take care of our needs. The resources in our solar system might as well be infinite compared to what humanity uses so far.

To put it into perspective what a lack of growth means: 80-90% of all scientists are alive today. Before the industrial revolution, the estimated GDP per capita (PPP) doubled in 1500 years. That is to say, the average person in the area of Denmark in the year 100 AD could buy about 1-2 cups of 1990s coffee for their day's worth of labor, while the average person in the area of Denmark 1600 AD could buy about 2-4 cups of 1990s coffee for their day's worth of labor.[0] That is to say, life for the average person didn't improve much over the centuries. To compare this to the modern world (post industrial revolution): Denmark's GDP per capita PPP doubled from 1999 to 2018 - less than 20 years. The average Dane today could afford 80 cups of that 1990s coffee for a day's labor.

This "unbounded growth" is fundamental to our modern society.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_...
Long narrow wires carry heat with little resistance
It requires cooperation from perhaps fifty thousand organisations (there are 45k ASes that announce more than one prefix, and I'm guessing that there may be 5k software vendors). Some of those have orgcharts that aren't very friendly to this kind of change.

Adding to that, even clueful places may be held back by one or more vendor or provider, all of which need to have working v6 support before you yourself can deploy it.
When I was interviewing after I graduated college last December, all we ever talked about was my projects. We would skip over school (every other candidate they interviewed had a comp-sci degree, not a differentiator) very quickly.

I even had an interview where one my interviewers pulled up my GitHub during the interview and asked me questions about design and tooling decisions on certain projects.

From each company where I received an interview, I was told that it was because they were interested by my side projects.

Of course- it may depend on what your side projects are! Mine were of interest for the cloud based roles I was looking for- RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, AWS, Linux SysAdmin stuff, etc.
World's Ugliest Color
All PC operating systems? You mean I can get it for BSD or Linux?
Maybe this DIY approach to masks can help in the interim - better than no mask at all?

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/practice/homemade-personal-protect...
I'm not sure; that 2 days number was what I thought I'd read about South Korea's test, but could be wrong.

At any rate, that's an approximation. The key point is for the average testing and isolation interval to be shorter than the average time to pass on a new case, whatever that interval actually is. If that happens, then it's stoppable.
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Executives and other New Yorkers of means had easy access to testing
You are correct - because I have a clock on the screen, UpNext does a full screen refresh about every 10 minutes. I thought this would bother me so did some explorations of a UI without the clock, but in practice I don’t notice the flashing, and I like having the clock.
Yes, they all have flow sensors. They track vast quantities of data, in fact they track and record the flow of every breath on SD card and can upload that data via Bluetooth.

There's an open source app called SleepyHead that can show you all the data in detail. It appears the maintainer burned out but the downloads are still available.

So it seems modern CPAP has all that's needed? Doctors can even monitor it remotely or via the cloud. It's intended to let clinics monitor patient progress without needing visits, so it's all pretty easy to use.
Honor among thieves?Cybercriminals urge others not to take advantage of pandemic
Montreal Hospitals Offer $200k Reward for Simple Ventilator Design