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In a book, I don't have to make the words do anything. Also, I've spent my whole life learning English vocabulary.

I could spend some more time learning the DF glyphs, but a picture is worth a thousand words.

I killed the Balrog in uMoria* back in the day, so I'm not a stranger to ASCII graphics. The difference between rogue-likes and DF is the extremely huge variability in the glyphs.

Edit: To continue the comparison to books, Dwarf Fortress is like an interactive textbook, Roguelikes compare to genre fiction.

*I'm a dirty save-scummer, but I still put in a bunch of time.
I can also confirm that after disabling Brave shield I was able to view entrylevel and search.
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That's definitely an uncommon comparison.

Go is basically Oberon with C-ish syntax, and Oberon is probably the Wirthiest of Wirth languages, basically everything Wirth thought was good distilled into a single language. And given that Wirth's whole family tree of languages exists because he objected to Algol 68 so hard he walked out on Algol...
Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos
Ooooh, like gas rationing in the 70s.
Don't know about NL, but in Hungary and a lot of other EU countries you can get 100Mb/10Mb for about 10 EUR, gigabit for 20-30.
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It's easy to stomach the idea of shutting the U.S. economy down when you're a multi-billionaire. All of the people famous enough to have op-eds published about how they would handle the situation are also rich enough where the economic impact doesn't affect them personally, other than some numbers in their portfolio.

There are millions of people who just got laid off and still have rent / mortgage / car payments due and nothing but unemployment insurance if they're lucky to make ends meet for the duration of this mess.

So what do you do for these people? Sending out checks for $1,200 isn't going to significantly alter the calculus here. The longer the economy stays shut down the more of a knock-on effect from halted production, interrupted supply chains, opportunity loss from unfulfilled manufacturing and shipping capacity, and ending with severe revenue loss at all levels of the economy, putting companies out of business.

I've heard the straw man that "companies are just greedy and value profits over human life," but the reality is that when companies go out of business, all the people they employed for "scraps" are now unemployed and in a buyer's market for what few jobs are left.

I think all of this might be esoteric here on HN where a lot of us seem to be employed in creative or tech positions that can function remotely, but these types of positions are still the exception rather than the rule in the U.S.

I'm not arguing that we should reopen the economy asap, either, but it would be nice to read an op-ed from someone whose livelihood was directly impacted by the shutdown.
It is absolutely a market segmentation choice.
Unemployment services are ran by the state. The entry level Software Engineer salary by the state of California is around $64k, with senior level salaries between about $75-$105k in Sacramento. I do not know if if this is normal, above average, or below average when compared with other states.
> "There's your problem. It doesn't matter what something tastes like in blind tastings, if you put "low in fat" or any other health indicators on the packaging you'll make the contents taste worse".

Well we've trained our mental models to believe that healthier food has a greater chance to taste worse. And rightly so because it usually does.
As far as I know: Not really the initial "downgraded" code is normally worse in more or less any aspect. It's just emitted fastly.

The only reason I could come up with is to downgrade to them upgrade again to a differently optimized code. But then WebAssembly doesn't need to do speculative optimizations like JS needs. So I guess it's not really relevant.
Scooter did that too. And there was "Bring Me Edelweiss" but that was a single hit.
The general answer is that governments (i.e., bureaucrats) are not thought to be very good at stepping in and running corporations. In addition, presumably all of those bureaucrats already have things to do and don't need the headache.
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Newsflash: companies don't do this as a "social responsibility."

I'm already personally finding it hard to onboard new engineers on the team. I don't think many would be keen to essentially lose one good engineer (as they'd be the mentor) to remotely ramp up one intern who may or may not be good and if the latter, may or may not return for a return offer.
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I could see that over the long term, but in one year? If divesting from fossil fuels worked that fast, wouldn't everyone have done it already?
Good, hopefully this criminal is removed from office.... the sooner the better....
Similar to how some companies avoid putting the word ‘vegan’ on clearly vegan products. Even these new meat alternatives. There was a story a few years back about how half of the Girl Scout cookies are vegan but the soccer mom sellers didn’t want the logo on the product in case it reduced sales. Initially some said vegan on the box and those were crossed out to hide it!
No, Serway's totally fine! But Halliday, Resnick, and Krane was written for honors freshman physics courses, so it's just kicked up a notch relative to the other intro books.
thanks for sharing this one! I love good radio stations. so hard to find down here in the deep south.
USB Mass Storage has its own command set. Some newer USB3 adapters do allow SCSI commands to be passed through using UASP, but not all do.
> In addition to the examples in the blog post linked above, you cannot express a mutating getter in Mathematics.

Neither can you express foobarish bamboozles...
Erlang has a very concise syntax that takes about a half hour to teach. “Not that great” is a very subjective observation.
The Microsoft client was probably moved to an all C# solution, which skips over this problem.
Yelp's case is also more situational than the rest. They entirely depend on people shopping/eating out to search and make posts. That's clearly not happening right now and I'm sure SMBs are scrambling to cancel any ad purchases they already have with Yelp.
The second time I learned physics or other subjects is through history science and physicist biography books. This is not as efficient as physics textbooks, but fleshes out the how and why many of these ideas came about.
This is so cool! Any plans for working on an iPhone/iPad app?
While true, ubiquitous personal air transportation was pretty much a staple of a lot of futurism. I suspect that part of it may be that this is from a time when air travel was nowhere as widespread as it is today--at least normally. As a result, people were probably not nearly as exposed to issues around noise from aircraft as they are today.

ADDED: And, yes, an implicit assumption is presumably that these personal vehicles are quiet but it's unclear what the mechanism for that would be.
Disable Javascript and the modal goes away. As does most tracking and other irritations. I strongly recommend doing so for most news sites.
No, it famously lacks TRIM for example. They may finally have gotten their act together and updated it in a recent version, but there are plenty drives on the market still today that will , for lack of TRIM support, eventually grind themselves down to a halt. FireWire and Thunderbolt do support full SCSI, iirc.
Hi, helm-bibtex author here. Helm-bibtex has support for importing citations directly from CrossRef: Fire up helm-bitbex, type search terms (e.g., title of paper), select CrossRef option, select paper from search results and press "c" to copy BibTeX entry, "q" to close, then paste entry into your .bib file.
https://gabrielsw.blogspot.com/2012/04/purely-functional-tur...
Most fund managers would probably be happy that their portfolio only dropped 16%, with a gain of 20% one year before...
This isn't fully true though. 'Middle class' means something vastly more dramatic than it did in 1959. Homes are 2x bigger, 2x nicer, they are fully automated (washing machine, dishwasher, microwave), we have internet, cellphones, 2.5 cars per home instead of 0.8, we travel farther and more often, there's infinitely more variety in food and every other commercial product etc..

Aside from real-estate - a family could live on one income if they wanted to give up all of those things.

I'm not entirely disparaging your point, other than to say the entire system has changed, it's not like 1950's standards now cost 2x.

But yes, surely it's a weird artifact of classical liberalism that 'freedom' is somehow implied to be 'now you have to work for money or starve'.

Edit: I should add, that by any economic definition, if during one era only 'one parent' is working, and during a different era 'both parents' tend to be working, it's just a mathematical reality that those with only 'one parent working' will move down the economic ladder relative to others. This would be true before a single sociological artefact contextualised the fact.
> using global statistics

Let's keep it real, the flu infection rate given by the CDC is hindsight knowledge. The real time "global statistics" for COVID19 are with vastly restricted testing. There's not really a valid comparison to be made at this point.
It'd be interesting if someone can compare it to Evernote.
Zotero desktop GUI is not top notch. Feels like they stopped improving things in a long time.

I'd rank the GUI experience this way:

Paperpile > Zotero >= Mendeley
I don't know of anybody who's ever learned new stuff from that book. It literally zooms from addition and subtraction to fiber bundles in a few hundred pages. That's simply not enough to pick up anything but the bare intuition, and certainly not enough to do any nontrivial calculations. The only people I know who enjoyed the book at all were those who already knew the stuff in it, but in that case the book was pointless!
OSCAR is the new sleepyhead. You can grab the source here: https://gitlab.com/pholy/OSCAR-code

Looks like it's currently getting some TLC under the hood. Hopefully it'll continue to be maintained.
It's not that fossil fuels are a bad investment. They happened to underperform over the past year due to the Russia/Saudi Arabia oil price war.
I always remembered the line from the book about finding a bass line being like a "panther on the prowl" and IIRC mentioning Billie Jean or some other Michael Jackson song as an example. It really made sense.

The same section also warned against hiring some "thumb-slapping dickhead" to play bass which made sense from their perspective (The KLF never used bass players) but doesn't hold true for all types of songs, even dance music.
Very little trouble? That user agent says it’s Mozilla, then says it’s Windows 10, then says it’s Apple, then says it’s Gecko, then says it’s Chrome, then even though it said it was Windows it goes on to say it’s Safari.

The individual headers, on the other hand, tell you EXACTLY what the system and browser is.
On this article, one of the tricks you can do to avoid the hung NFS client reboots is to quickly alias the NFS server IP onto the local device (ip addr add ...). This basically causes the networking layer to act like the NFS server went away but also return a RST (reset) network packet to that effect, allowing the failure to propagate upwards to the rest of the stack and unhang.
Also it might be more expensive, but if you look at total cost of ownership - supporting infrastructure lab, skilled lab technicians to run it, supplies required, etc - how does it compare?
I think good mouse support wouldn't remove the ability to navigate menus using keystrokes - but for tasks like drawing out farms, the dig squares for a residential block or dragging and dropping workshops into the right place... that's where I think it'll shine.

I don't dislike the keyboard approach used right now but DF hack and it's digging templates has clearly demonstrated that folks feel the lack of good dig designation sorely.
The Euphemism Treadmill dictates that "vegan" is now "plant-based diet."

Among those that herbivores would like to convert, "vegan" is saddled with negative perceptions.
It should be noted that Mendeley encrypts user database, presumably to lock in its users: https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/06/13/mendeley-encrypted-db
There's plenty of people with multiple bank accounts, one of which just has a few hundred bucks in checking, and then near the end of a month they pull from an online savings (that has higher APY) into their main account as required. That's just one example of many tricks employed.
> Seeing that doing nothing will likely lead to lead to millions of deaths, how would the lockdown possibly kill more than that?

The lockdown is wasting months to years of billions of people's lives. That has to be equivalent to some number of deaths, hard to quantify how many, but it's greater than zero.

Also, a bad economy literally kills people by starvation albeit in foreign, poor countries that don't have food surpluses or the ability to print USD.
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They timed it well. In other years, divesting from fossil fuels would have meant underperforming the market (which they would probably have been fine with) but they chose a good year to do it.
how Lime optimizes its webview system
Valid point, but the e-commerce side of the business benefits immensely from these tools (I use FullStory every day for debugging, it's a life saver). I wouldn't say that simply having a replay script on your page is the scarlet letter the author of the post makes it out to be.

All of these VPN services lean really hard into the fear factor for marketing, and this article seems no different. Just identifying a minor worst-case risk on their competitor's sites, extrapolating that risk and hoping no one notices these are websites (not services), and bundling it up nicely in an SEO-friendly blog post. VPN services are notoriously suss when it comes to disclosure anyway, but they're largely marketing to the lowest common denominator of the privacy-paranoid.

Next week's cruft article: "Your VPN provider knows your IP address"

Rinse and repeat.
> 1.4% death rate

We don't know that. At all. In the past these kinds of on-the-fly estimates during the spread of an infection have turned out to be overestimates. Sometimes by an order of magnitude.
Or github pages, if you already have an account there.
> The point is that backend pain shouldn't stop you from accepting it on the front end and putting it into a queue.

What if the backend rejects the form? The user's already moved on before their form made it through the queue. So then you're stuck re-implementing all the validations the backend needs in order to give the user feedback (which you may not even be able to do) or trying to get the user to come back later to try again.

> Making the problem of getting the application through backend systems the states' to deal with, not the applicants'.

Reducing permanent staff involved in processing applications is probably one of the main reasons the automated system was built in the first place. If they still have to do that, then you might as well just replace the frontend with a printable PDF.
Yes but for every architect there's an antiarchitect saying YAGNI!!1
by design.
It would be fun for stupid stuff though that doesn't really matter- you and your friends could chat and make fun of it MST3k style.
People don't buy Belgian biscuits for health, but because they want to indulge. People expect and want them to have fat in it. When you write 'now with less fat' people read 'probably tastes worse than before'. It's not the packaging that is wrong, it's the product concept.
Thats what seems like the difference to me. If anybody can put samples in a cartridge in a machine and get results that seems like a whole different game.
The workarounds for WSJ do not work anymore for me, eg the redirect from FarceBorg will still get the "subscribe" page. Also FT. They appear to have removed workarounds. Are they STILL valid HN submissions ... even when there is NO workaround?

Or maybe there is one and i haven't twigged to it yet:-)>
Doesn't matter what people will see it immediately.... but if it will be better for Venezuela in the long term. (I think it will).

People under dictatorship can be brainwashed into thinking that the west is evil/corrupt and trying to destroy the way of life.... (insert ideology here).
Later, people will understand in what kind of rut/nightmare were they.

This played out in most former Communist countries, where after the dust was settled, none want to go back to where it was and they understand the change was for good....

So, short term, yes you are right, long term it is the right thing to do (intervention by removing the head of the mafia narco state)
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I try not to switch too often, just because I find it hard to remember the details. The one that always stumps me the most is comments -- I always stare for several seconds trying to remember how comments work in that language.
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I personally agree. A lot of those disagreeing with you find the ASCII graphics to be a barrier to initial entry, which is true, but it is a barrier that you can overcome quickly and feel quite comfortable with. On the other hand, having spent many hours with the game, the UX issues you mention are what block me from building fluid muscle memory and being able to really get into the game.
The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild
This varies greatly by locale and is not uniform across the USA. In Berkeley, California I have fiber service that terminates in my own equipment, no rented equipment and no bundled services (TV, phone, etc). It's nominally symmetric gigabit service for $40/month.
Charitably interpreted: A better programmer knows using a fancy feature _can_ result in better code, but, also knows that fancy features usually aren't required to write good code (and that fancy features can turn good code into bad code when reached for too quickly)
Convenient to use and very helpful for technical illustrations. For ex, I created the gifs here [1] using LICEcap - showing a class boundary in 3D space. Have been using it at work for a couple of years now.

[1] https://blog.statsbot.co/support-vector-machines-tutorial-c1... sorry, couldn't find a gif to directly link to. If you don't want to scroll, ctrl+F for the text "This is what the projected data looks like". There are two consecutive gifs, then a static image, and then another gif after that.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lays bare his battles with Bill Gates (2011)
I’ve recently started a little project for my own reference manager. Since I end up writing papers in Latex, I want my bib file(s) to be the ground truth and I’m slightly obsessive about things like consistent capitalization and author names. I’d rather not fight my reference manager to eventually produce the bib file I want if I can just create that bib file in the first place.

Everything I want from a reference manager can be done in a relatively simple command line tool with an interface similar to beets. Only the extraction of DOIs from PDFs looks like it will have to be a bit hacky, but if `ref im article.pdf` works for 90% of articles and asks me to provide the DOI for the other 10%, that’s good enough for me.
I used this for years until gifcam came out...now I use it whenever I'm on a retired machine that does not have internet connection anymore
Larger lab with a variety of specialized equipment and trained personnel vs. a wall of these machines; very different.
Only problem with radio is type of music you get out from it is more of less mercy of what's popular and what music producers want to market, which really wouldn't fly for me.

I do, however listen to my local NPR station, and I do find them enjoyable.
If you want to know fatality rates you need a controlled population. South Korea isn't that, its level of testing isn't even much higher than Switzerlands at this point.

There are only two known populations in which everyone was forced to be tested and their movement was limited, which thus makes up a controlled study: the Diamond Princess and the town of Vo in Italy. In both cases the fatality rate is much less than 1%. In fact in Vo it was zero.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/eradic...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

In prior pandemics like this one the final fatality rate ended up being much lower than the initial reports: like an order of magnitude lower. So we would expect to see the same this time.

0.1% or less is well within the bounds of possibility, as the essay by Ioannadis explains.
> getting the flu and was violently sick

That's what it took for me. Now I always get the flu shot, even if inconvenient. The last time I had the flu, it hurt so bad that I swore I'd never miss the flu shot again. Haven't got the flu since, which is part luck and part shot, but still, I'll take whatever protection I can get.
If only one could set up Elasticsearch and Kibana using infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I spent several days trying and still haven't succeeded. Elasticsearch config is full of foot-guns.

There are tons of easy setup examples but they lack access control and encryption. All of my servers must write logs. When one of them gets cracked, the attacker must not be able to read all the other servers' logs and steal all the PII. An attacker can use an ARP attack to MITM server connections to Elasticsearch. Without encryption, that attack yields all the PII.

I hope Meilisearch can someday help fill this gap in the free DevOps toolset.
Sure, it's great practice, but practice that comes with heavy costs. And who knows when/where/if the next pandemic hits. If it's not within the next 10 years, the lessons may have been forgotten and the practice was expensive and useless.
Your hoax remark is purely false. From the quite-liberal Snopes: "Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax."

He said Democrats were politicizing it, which is fair. It's obvious he was just playing politics as well, and also trying to keep people from panic-buying. Meanwhile, the border was already shut down with China, before February, far earlier than many other countries.

You're running around calling Americans idiots just like Hillary called them deplorables. Meanwhile you obviously are buying false narratives and pulling at selectively chosen data that affirms your narrative... all I'll say is, the problem may not be "Americans".
It’s insane to me that we carry these little GPS trackers around with us everywhere and there is seemingly no middleground between “total government pandemic panopticon” and “try to remember every person you’ve been in contact over the last three weeks.”

If we solve that, then we make it possible for most people to go back about their business but still maintain the capability to send them a push notification saying “hey, you may have been exposed. You should monitor your symptoms and probably stay home”
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