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There are 24 Ekadashis in a year. The belief behind Papmochani Ekadashi is that those who believe in this Ekadashi and observe a fast may find respite from all sorts of sins from previous and present lifetimes. People worship Lord Vishnu on Papmochani Ekadashi. This falls in the Krishna paksha and has greater significance than other Ekadashis that fall in a month.
Fair enough, good ones can exist. But every year April 1st becomes such a barrage of PR stunts, mostly not of that quality, that I'd rather companies didn't waste the resource.
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Am I missing something here or does this look rather over-engineered and with limited capacity - 10 tests per device per day - I assume the device is the large central unit.
Those documents are famously read synchronously in silence at the start of those meetings though.
> Doing multiple small layoffs is a form of cascading failure. Do one layoff, but much much deeper than seems correct.

I hope people don't actually think like you (or follow your advice).

In a time like this, it would make more sense to write about people are not a number, and you should keep your employees because there are more important things than money in life.
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For me, a former Perl hacker, the Parrot announcement represents the best April Fool's joke.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.c...

The official Perl.com site announced Perl and Python were going to merge so you could run both languages in the same interpreter. In itself that was quite amusing, but the best part is that the Raku project actually adopted the name for their VM because it could actually do that, and became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine, so what started out as a proper joke turned out to be real.
Game engine implements only a tiny slice of physics science, and even that in very distorted smoke-and-mirrors way in order to make it run in realtime. You learn more about computational optimizations, numerical methods and linear algebra, while physics is mostly elementary level. For example, all of optics is stuffed into highly optimized and simplified rendering pipeline and "physically based rendering" is anything but.
Lisp?

(ducks for cover)

I know someone writing Smalltalk on a daily basis for this system: https://kyma.symbolicsound.com/
Things you shouldn't joke about are one thing. But during? Sure, there are situations that you shouldn't joke during... for a few hours up to maybe a day or two max. During a weeks or months long situation, jokes can't and shouldn't be stopped.
It all sounds impressive to me:

>In various laboratory tests with SARS-CoV-2, the Bosch test delivered results with an accuracy of over 95 percent.

I've read a lot of report on the current tests for SARS-CoV-2 having accuracy issues, does anyone know how 95% accuracy compares to the current methods?
> I agree with you, but in agreement with OP, April Fool jokes just aren't funny. They're inherently mean.

This entire debate is mostly going to be heavy on the subjective and is largely pointless accordingly. It's opinion tossing, people hoping their opinion somehow magically weighs more.

I like pizza. No, pizza sucks, it's too hot. Pizza isn't hot enough. Only cold pizza is good. No all pizza is inherently evil. Pizza is hand delivered by the saints. Only pizza with pineapple is good. Pizza with pineapple is the worst thing ever.

Seinfeld sucks, he isn't funny at all. Seinfeld is a god.
I wonder if it refuses to operate at all without a wifi connection? ;)
From Wikipedia (prior to elected office): advocated for nationalization of major industries, including those in the manufacturing, energy and banking sectors. In 1974, he advocated for a marginal tax rate of 100% on income over one million dollars, saying that "Nobody should earn more than a million dollars"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Bernie_...

I doubt Sanders still advocates for most of these positions, and he is of course a millionaire now.
As cool as E was, it was almost entirely based on core ideas lifted from Joule and KeyKOS. I can't really see any influence beyond a "wouldn't it be great if language X had feature Y like you find in E".
Those RM Nimbus machines! My school had a lab full of the 186 versions, they were awful. And, again, 'computing' lessons meant MS Office.
That's marked for Q3: https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues?q=is%3Aiss...

But probably 99% of users using ES don't need sharding.
I agree. I think this comment sums up how I feel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

> I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise.

> I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."
I did at first but the latency was a killer; it took about 2~3 hours to make a snapshot. If I did the snapshot locally and then used rclone to back up the restic repo to BB then the whole operation took about 15~20 minutes, and the snapshot itself took less than 5; if the rclone gets interrupted you can just restart it.
Rust type's system has a similar power level to OCaml's but without modules (which are used heavily at JS) and with linear types/lifetimes. Rust would probably be a good fit for JS, but of course it takes a lot to overcome the momentum of 20 years of using primarily one language.
Are we supposed to pause comedy until this virus is over? Potentially we could still be dealing with this till Christmas. Hell, give it another year for people to begin to come to terms with the misery surrounding the virus. When shall we start comedy again?

On the other hand, I want to see even more jokes. Yes, the situation is crap, so even more the need to raise everybody's spirits. If you don't want to see jokes, log off for a day, some insane Doctors said it won't actually kill you.

I would suggest that jokes that lessen the current virus or deaths surrounding it would be in poor taste, but each to their own. I personally won't be making morbid jokes, but I'm not going to fetch the pitch forks out of the garage to go seek revenge from anybody who does.
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To make decisions quickly, I totally agree.

If you want to understand the why, it is essential to have it in writing.

If the problem is complex, then one guy writing for 30 minutes can provide more clarity than 5 discussing for an hour.
It's especially hard to do well when it's forced through the filter of a PR team. It's not humor for humor's sake, it's humor to improve a brand. I don't think this is impossible to do well, just very rarely done in practice.
It’s good to see solutions for testing are coming.

This test by Singapore a*star nanobiolab can test in 5 minutes : https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/singapore-scie...
Yeah, we need to get rid of "jokes" that mislead people, mock them, or otherwise hurt or disadvantage people. Especially since fake news and misinformation has become a serious problem online. Jokes that are actually fun are great. But those don't need to be restricted to April Fools either.
Most? That's a shame. The ones notable enough for me to remember are all ridiculous fake product launches, where it's really obvious that they're not serious (though sometimes it does exist in some form, which just makes it better).
I agree. I haven’t found a single April fools prank funny in years. It’s just an annoying day where even more fake news is passed of as fact only this time tolerated by all because lols. In the past few years I’ve tried to simply stay offline for the day.

Joke all you like if that helps you stay sane through the pandemic, but leave those who don’t wish to out of it and don’t play pranks on people.
So your solution is to not pay employees. I'll admit, I'm a bit jealous you found people willing to work for free.
“Dyson has had hundreds of engineers working round the clock to design the ventilators from scratch.”

It blows my mind. Everybody now, instead of cooperating, tries to design a perfect ventilator.
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For many, recent April Fools Day "pranks" come across as just another megacorp advertising opportunity. I don't personally find it funny, or even pleasant. It's forced...like someone's putting it on their promo packet as evidence of community service or something.

So yeah, I'm jaded, but that said I don't want to be a grouch about it (except for here, for argument's sake). If people enjoy it, then I'm cool with quietly simmering.
"Meanwhile, the consortium of medical, military and civil engineering companies - which includes Airbus, Meggit, GKN and others - is working to ramp up the production of an existing design."

This is such a relief!
I also experienced those "How to Do Word" lessons, although earlier my school had taught us BASIC programming on a BBC Acorn. So I found it very frustrating when they built a shiny new computer lab only to teach us how to click on UIs. There were a few of us who did the classic "sitting at the back and doing our own thing".
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I like the idea of kubernetes, and (some time ago) worked through a basic tutorial. My main confusion is how to set up a development environment. Are there any guides you could suggest that cover basic workflows?
Most people won't. Many average people are going to lose their jobs or business and go broke, or be cooped up in a tiny apartment for weeks and months.

Some of us are lucky enough to be able to weather this without severe downsides. But we're in the minority.
Critical thinking?

I know it's a foreign concept but I'm sure we can import someone to teach us.
> Up to 1,000 tests per day on just 100 devices

So.. 10 tests per day per device? That doesn't sound THAT impressive.
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Wow, that would be really sad. When or if you've lost your sense of humor, then you've ceased living. Either that or someone is so fragile, crybully, or politically-correct that they can't handle a good joke. And people without a sense of humor are usually drama-oriented.
I doubt traffic accidents and traffic have a linear correlation. I would assume it looks very different depending on the density of the traffic, i.e. not linear at all.
Syncronisation can not be maintained as there is no info bingetogether gets from the services at what time code the video is.

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I 100% agree with not doing April fools. Humor is important; jokes work with twisted semantics and surprise. April Fool's websites have neither and just render the web useless for a day.
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I have another theory about why Java beat other object-oriented programming languages except C++: cost. I can't speak for Eiffel and Ada since I'm unfamiliar with those environments, but in the mid-1990s Java caused a revolution of sorts by providing free-as-in-beer runtimes and development tools that were available for download. I don't know how good GNU G++ was in 1995, but I know that Borland's Turbo C++ and Microsoft's Visual C++ were affordably priced. By comparison, commercial Smalltalk implementations had expensive licensing fees, and in 1995 Squeak and Pharo didn't exist. There was also OpenStep and Objective-C, but that was also very expensive; this 1996 article from CNet (https://www.cnet.com/news/next-gets-to-nt/) says that the Windows NT version of OpenStep cost $5,000 per developer and $25,000 for a version that allowed deployment.

With the high prices of Smalltalk and Objective-C environments, Java attracted a lot of companies and developers who wanted an object-oriented programming language that provided some of Smalltalk's benefits (e.g., garbage collection, memory safety, a rich standard library) without having to shell out the cash for a Smalltalk implementation.
Started again and finished the game this time, great experience!

Wish it was way longer now haha, although it's already been quite a bit of procrastinating :)
You would (among other techniques) use something like Stormpot to maintain Object pools to release and acquire instances from.

Object pools typically can't match the GC on latency and throughput, however they do provide a lot more predictable and stable performance.
Either you're joking or don't appreciate humor. What a sad and dreary life.
The government turned down an offer from the EU because Europe which is a bit worrying.

There are plenty of medical equipment manufacturers in the UK who've made these exact products before, or very similar products, and who know the rules and regulations well. They've offered to help, but not heard anything back from the government.

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1242949236762738692

These are the kinds of things that we will have to hold the government to account for at some point.
I genuinely disagree that this is a flamewar topic. I posted about a political party’s actions the same way I would post about any other organizations actions.
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This is amazing, thank you! I will most definitely take you up on your offer!
Takes about two and a half hours per test, so yeah, 10 tests a day per unit.
I definitely agree there is typically a lot of chaff to sort through.
From one of the tweets:

> In some senses, we were made for this. Slack’s not specifically a “work from home” tool; it’s more of a “create organizational agility” tool. But an all-at-once transition to remote work creates a lot of demand for organizational agility.
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> instead of cooperating

Sometimes cooperation takes a whole more time than doing things by yourself if you know exactly what needs to be done. Adding more groups/interactions typically slow down delivery.
Yes, It's marked for Q3 because it's a pretty complex feature. And we had a lot of other features to do at the same time. But the good news is that it's very well advanced and is likely to be released in mid-Q2.
I dislike April Fools days jokes, basically it makes everything worthless for the internet that day and some of it worthless the day after. So I would like to have people not do it.

In my experience from previous years lots of people on HN seem to feel the same way because there are always all these pranks, and people complaining that they're not very funny.

So I would like people not to put out these stupid jokes.

One thing that might help people to decide not to make the pranks is the observation that some people would find them offensive, given that the purpose of these pranks are essentially marketing exercises.

As for why I would care what people say, I care to a minimal extent and tolerate what I see as humorless behavior in the same way that while they might say that was inappropriate when I make a joke I would like them to tolerate my viewpoint. Thus if I think something might be offensive to some people in a context I consider if it is really funny before saying it.

And then I come on HN and laboriously explain my reasoning for every little bit of politeness I practice because that's just the kind of guy I am.
How hard are these things to build? It certainly looks like a complicated medical device, but is there a simpler DIY version that gets the job done?
"(...)the rapid test can detect a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection in patients in under two and a half hours"
(...)With the tests currently in use, patients must usually wait one to two days for a result."

Well i see here a big improvement...
If measuring wealth is a problem, I'd look into inflation, and Land Value Tax. Inflation would depreciate money, and land value tax would erode physical possession. Then we can redistribute.

Land value tax in particular seems particularly interesting: if generalised to comprise (almost) all of tax, we can expect a drastic simplification of tax collection, and much less paperwork for everyone when doing all kinds of exchanges, paying an employee, selling goods… at least for unregulated activities. And of course, it would make accumulation of wealth more difficult.

Another route, that several countries have partially and successfully taken, is devoting part of salaries to the common good (tax salaries, at it were): a bit to pay for retirement, a bit to pay for hospitals, a bit to pay for unemployment… this could possibly be generalised to outright communism, where the means of productions are no longer owned by capitalists. (I would avoid a command economy however. We most probably want local stuff to be managed locally. For instance, only people living within 1Km of a bakery should have a say about what the bakery should do, and the people working there should probably decide how they want to work.)

The more pressing problem however is handling the coming recession: as energy (oil, coal & stuff) decreases, so will the GDP (it has already started). I don't know how an "ideal" should look like, but it's certainly not a system that assumes growth that isn't there. I'll just note that without growth, inequalities tend to be much less tolerable.
An appropriate HN comment: "Shouldn't that be 'April Fool's day"? ... [long thread about whether singular or plural]
I was also thinking of the community, as they moved out into other languages and carried some ideas with them that they maybe got exposed to in the E community.
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You can use a language like OCaml without allocating and still capture huge benefits over C++, like a decent type system, ADTs, and better abstractions than templates (modules in OCaml's case).
I totally agree with your second sentence. Nobody's saying "ban jokes, I hate humour". Just this specific type of joke, at this specific point in time.
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Issue with April's Fools jokes are that many of those aren't funny. Some are trying too hard, some are just company-ads hoping to "go viral".

Sometimes there are good ones, but 90% are not.
They will cost 50k£ each, support Bluetooth, look like a whale, not be repairable, lack necessary features, and last just until the 2 year warranty expires.

I hope AvE tears one down and rips them a new sphincter.
Sounds really impressive, but writing "1,000 tests per day with just 100 devivces" is really marketing BS I think. They should've just written "10 tests per day per device".
You have to consider, some of these might not get made in time or be unreliable. Having a few different baskets of eggs might be good.
Hint: they are a for profit company and want you to pay 30% of your app revenue. Don't expect any open web standard that can actually compete with native apps unless something in the market changes.
> What I find the most damaging is the expectation that you should always be online watching all your channels in order to not miss some bit of information (or show that you are online, busy, doing work).

That sounds either like toxic work culture or maybe the way slack is used in your company has created assumptions that may not be entirely warranted.

Where I work, there is no such expectation. If it's something urgent, people use @-messages so the recipient gets a notification, with reasonable care not to abuse them. If it's anything else, it's normal messages which can be read when convenient. Some, including me, turn off Slack entirely when diving deep into some task but I still get phone notifications for @-messages and a couple of keywords I've set up for urgent matters. If people appreciate each others time and attention, it's actually a fairly pleasant tool to use. We're not a large team, though, maybe it's different in larger orgs.
I'd take 1 year at this point.
> Up to 10,000,000 tests per day ...

> ... on just 1,000,000 devices

Incredible marketing.
I know what you're saying, but in this instance there's a fairly good technology & manufacturing fit between ventilators and Dyson's other products. More so than some car manufacturers.

Dyson's core business and knowledge involves small devices which move and filter air, often on battery power (yes, I'm simplifying!). So designing something that reuses their existing technology with minimal retooling of the factory might well be easier and quicker than adapting their factory to an existing design.
Well, at least the Dyson PR department is working hard. Shame their tech is shoddy at best.
I'm freelance self-employed, so I thought I'd give this a shot and see what's being offered:

Fez : Hello! What can I help you with?

None of the options seem to cover my case, so I pick the closest:

You : Get HMRC to pay my wages

(That was the only thing that seemed vaguely relevant)

Fez : Ok
First question: are you employed?

You : No

Fez : Cool. So you are currently employed then

(That seems ... odd)

As you know, the Chancellor announced that
HMRC would pay 80% of wages for three months
to any employees who totally can't work
because of COVID 19 (Corona) ...

So, that didn't help at all.

Nice interface, though.

(I know this was probably produced in a hurry, and I realise this seems a bit snarky, but I wanted to provide feedback, and this is my honest reaction. I hope it helps pinpoint the next stage of development to become more useful.)
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Dyson are working with Technology Partnership, a medical device manufacturer. Presumably they're working on a new design that takes advantage of the existing tooling and parts that Dyson have.

There's another consortium working to ramp up production of existing designs - seems sensible to try both approaches.
It’s almost like humor is subjective. Yes, many people suck at it and do it in wrong or counterproductive ways, especially with the rise of “prank” YouTube channels and the like which view embarrassing people as the end goal.

But there are other ones that I have found genuinely amusing and funny. The list of Google’s April fools pranks/features has some real gems - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools

Some of them even lead to products or other real features down the line (like the 2014 Pokemon google maps explorer, which went on to become Pokemon Go).

Yeah, some jokes miss the mark for me, but I get that my sense of humor isn’t universal, and frankly I think a bit of levity is important for us right now as individual and as a culture.
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I've been trying to find a good way to combine D3 and React for a long time. Thanks to improvements in D3 and React (hooks) it finally seems possible. I found this series of videos to be outstanding, especially #11 about force layouts.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ4p-ENjbiPo4WH7KdHjh_EMI7Ic8b2B

Are there other good resources for D3/React?

Disclaimer: I've only watched videos #1, #2, #3 and #11
What about multicore? :)

Nowadays Rust seems to cover all those features with zero-cost abstractions.
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Great tool! We use Jitsi with our team. Works without problems
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