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We've asked you many times to stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. When I look through your recent account history, I'm seeing little else. If that doesn't change, we're going to have to ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on, that'd be best.
Alright I'll entertain this. I'm in GIMP right now. Used the circle selection tool to select a circle that I want to make a circle with. I looked under Selection and also under Tools > Selection Tools in the top menu, but I couldn't find a "trace selection button". I don't see such a button in the circle selection toolbox settings either. Genuinely baffled, I almost feel dumb for not being able to find it.

My point though, is in any other image editor, you click the circle tool and start making circles in 2 seconds.
Dice Man. Fantasy? Sure. But a break from the regiment and monotony of a 'normal' life. Apt for these times.
Please don't take HN threads further into regional flamewar. That's exactly the wrong direction to head.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Holdout churches still hold services"

With an opening line of, "Most churches have responded to COVID-19 with measures like live streaming their services. But a few holdouts disregard the dangers..."

This makes it clear that we are now talking about how the crazies view the world. Which slants everything else that people will respond to.

It transforms "those crazy Christians" into "the crazies among the Christians". Which draws a more accurate picture of most Christians.
As is taught in schools, we first reduce, then reuse and only then recycle, in that order.
Here we are already giving emphasis to reuse, but it is better than just recycling.
There seem to be a few: https://austin.craigslist.org/search/fua?query=steelcase+lea...
and
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/austin/search/?query=st...

Look at other local sources as well.
https://www.ciodive.com/news/google-cloud-platform-outage/57...
So now we have another potential mistake - you setup a "delete everything/hard budget" for a production account instead of a developer account. What then?

It's impossible for AWS to know how to handle hard caps because there are too many ways to alter what's running and it's too contextual to your business at that moment. That's why they give you tools and calculators and pricing tables so that it's your responsibility (or a potential startup opportunity).

Money is easy to deal with. Alarms work. Bills can be negotiated. But you can't get back lost data, lost service, or lost customers.
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http://archive.is/usMit if this is unreadable for you on mobile. Worth noting that stupid Westerners dying because they refuse to wear the facemasks recommended by Chinese people isn't a new phenomenon.
I am a strong believer in the universal mask protocol for controlling COVID-19. I've created https://www.maskssavelives.org/ to help spread the message.
Pretty random. I wonder if there is a way of thinking about this perceived complexity with a higher dimension similar to the way imaginary numbers are used.
Woah, interesting! I thought TOTP used a shared secret rather than asymmetric encryption. The only thing I had to give Fidelity was the credential ID. Is that enough to generate or verify codes? It does that require key material that only Symantec has?
Definitely (example: me), but it can also apply to a native speaker of any language. Maybe s/he doesn't have a good voice, no money to spend on an actor or no time to invest on finding one or not of the same gender of the most appropriate voice for the video. Furthermore a synthetic voice makes everything faster. Also no need for a silent recording environment (again, cheaper and faster.)
That's my point.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Oh my, so wrong.

> "The French government has officially sanctioned chloroquine, a drug often used to fight malaria"

They still don't know the difference between HCQ (sulfat) and CQ (diphosphat).

HCQ - Plaquenil/Quensyl - Malaria. Safe to use.

CQ - Nivaquine/Resochin/Weimer quin - Lupus/Rheuma. Very toxic and unsafe.

It was initially recommended against Malaria, but even one the 2nd World War the German's didn't use it, but something better.

And their various sideffects. They also didn't report the dosis, and the additional anti-inflammatories (for the younger ones - cykotine storms).
Ignoring the implementation issues, my issue is when the vendor profits of limited supply in a crisis.

If the supplier is only passing on their own increased costs then that's at least fair in principle. Similarly, marginal increases in price for marginal increases in use also seems fair when there are demand surges.
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It’s probably synonymous with enterprise video conferencing. A startup or your kid’s teacher isn’t going to reach for WebEx. It’s totally still around in large companies. It mostly does the job but fails about 3% of the time for no good reason. Screen sharing mostly sucks, but I haven’t used Zoom, so can’t compare.
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Spread faster, yes. But if enough people have it who are not being included in the stats, then I think that means it will peak lower, as it would mean that the percentage of people who need hospital care would be lower than is being assumed.
You know, while I like stories like these, I find them equally frustrating because there doesn't seem to be any sources. Just Google the ignorant French doctor's name, for example.

It reminds me of my college psychology class. Our teacher would teach us from a book, then tell us the book was wrong and India had such discoveries prior. Cool to know, but now who knows the truth anymore.
There are both similarities and differences.

I'm not quite sure which part of my comment you object to? Is what I said above false?
UBI is the Hail Mary of neoliberale market capitalism. Anything to keep the pointless consumption fueled 'growth' monster from keeling over.

The 'ultmate' entitlements can be found in the 'private' sector, where 'institutions too big to fail' can keep gambling and reap enormous profits, and the moment the odds turn feel entitled to not ask but demand bailouts by the public they have been fleecing all along, where 'entrepreneurs' feel not just entitled but expect adoration when their planet destroying externality dumping schemes 'make a profit' or even just get to suck at the tit of the VC ponzi scheme.
totally agree.

I use kester 66/44 eutetic tin-lead solder on anything I care about.

It's said that light-dark auto helmets make someone a welder nearly overnight; I think that same way about eutetic solder and soldering, it makes the job so much easier that the quality of the work skyrockets.
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You should also give gifcap[1] a try. It's cross platform, browser based, client side only, with a preview editor which allows you to trim and crop the recording.

[1] https://gifcap.dev
Kudos for prominent feature of the dissenting view.

I thought it was the mainstream. Didn't we establish that eukaryotes are descended from archaea that engulfed rickettsia or cyanobacteria, presumably after inventing nuclei? It seems presumptuous to claim a domain just for that, successful as it may have been.
I was a welder for two years and after the first year I already started to notice a mental and physical decline in my health. Unfortunately, I was not a union welder and the company that I worked for did not educate or enforce proper use of safety gear. It was an eye opening experience for me and I’m glad to have experienced it, but knowing that my health was being put at risk is frustrating.
The problem is that the media often does lie to us or at least cherry picks the bits that align with their narrative. It’s basically become a boy who cried wolf kind of situation. Many in the mainstream media have cried wolf so frequently that now that there is a wolf many people are not willing to listen.
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Hey everyone! I made remotecake after experiencing friction between office-only and remote-only coworkers at my job. Now that we're all working remotely due to COVID-19, I've found that I actually really like working in an environment where everyone is remote since it no longer feels like the fully remote folks aren't "really" part of the team, plus we've been far more inclusive of everyone by having lots of remote team activities.

Has anyone else experienced this at their jobs where there's a mix of office-only and remote-only people on their team? Also, I'd appreciate any feedback on how I can make remotecake better!
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His analysis documented on this book

A treatise on pneumonic plague, by Wu Lien-Teh
https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19164415#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0...

His mask sounds simpler than N95 masks, only replaced by the newer design during SARS period in 2013. By the way, anyone has the original design of Dr Wu's mask? Can we mass produce this design for everyone? We need it
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Plus, it's open source: https://github.com/joaomoreno/gifcap
I have 4 machines running Windows 10 from its release and never had to reinstall the OS. Everything is stable and I hardly reboot.

Most development tools have Windows versions: Node, NPM, Git, Docker. If I'd encounter one which doesn't run ob Windows, there's WSL.

I pretty much disliked Windows XP, Vista and preferred Linux, but since Windows 7,the OS got a lot better from my point of view.

I have the largest possible software library and the added possibility to run *NIX tools when needed.

I don't need to fiddle with Linux desktop or pay 3x the price for Apple branded hardawe which you can't even maintain or extend yourself. I can use cheap chargers, perriferals and I can connect almost any device to my desktops or laptops.
There is also a dark truth about degrees and online courses. A lot of people know how to make it through these things by learning things on a shallow level. That’s why the credibility gets shoddier and shoddier over time.
Lead free solder is better for your health, that's clear. It requires new tools (solder iron) as lead free solder has a higher melting point than lead free.

In Europe lead free solder is the standard since many (10+) years, you can't get leaded solder as an option to buy.
I can also add Object Pascal, Modula-2, Ada and plenty of others to the list, I just felt lazy and typed only C++.
> "I think maybe you should just ignore whoever" "No point in arguing with them"

By the time you said this, there were already 3 post/reply loops between that person and myself. I don't see the purpose of telling me to ignore them, especially when you don't have the original context of their edited comments and are downstream of the conversation that already happened on the exact topic you say should be ignored.
so this is a programming language for when we aren't working? please elaborate
It's discussed that the eagles would not mingle in those affairs during the crisis, being unable to help in the most difficult times. I know it's hard to accept this and move on, but otherwise the movie would have like 2 or 3 pages, right
That is insanity. Flat is absolutely the best we can do. Herd immunity is a fallacy when the result of loosening social distancing restrictions is to overwhelm the medical system and cause unnecessary death.

Let young people congregate? A healthy fraction of those hospitalized with COVID-19 are young. They may survive better, but they take up a lot of ventilators in the process. Run out of ventilators and those young people will die in large numbers.

No, the only reasonable endgame to COVID-19 is to flatten the curve and keep it flat until we have some treatment tools that work. Ultimately, a vaccine. But until then, drug therapies that have been proven out in reasonably sized trials.
Thanks for this. Just finished coloring today's image. I haven't colored anything in at least 10 years. Great way to unwind a bit.
i think the downvoters don’t realize many are not recovering fully because of the collateral damage the immune system does to the lungs to beat covid19.
There is some evidence that humidity and temperature do influence the transmission rate: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767
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it says Netherlands, i see no mention of New Zealand
Because it's common sense that an invasive medical procedure needs to be administered by someone with some semblance of competence in medicine, if you expect the patient to have a shot at not dying. An emergency doesn't change the hard technical requirement of administering ventilation.

Or rather, this should be common sense, but the over-inflated egos on HN don't understand that it takes more than knowing which button does what to operate a ventilator. Being able to hold a paint brush is a very different skill level than painting a portrait.
Is this classification arbitrary, or does it try to actually reflect some sort of genetic ancestry tree?

Also: does it have any kind of predictive power or does it just scratch the itch of putting things in little separate boxes for its own sake ?
These are all countries with aggressive health programs developed in the aftermath of SARS and honed by H1N1. You're comparing apples and oranges not only in terms of border controls limiting ingress after recognition, but also SARS-CoV-2 first outbreak appears in the middle of a dense urban population. That initial outbreak was then allowed to gain a foothold as the government wrongfully silenced the people calling for help, vs. these three having aggressive policies to prevent suspect cases from entering the country on top of aggressive screening and testing policies spread across the urban lifescape.
>RapidFuzz […] is using the string similarity calculations from FuzzyWuzzy.

>It is MIT licensed so it can be used whichever License you might want to choose for your project, while your forced to adopt the GPLv2 license when using FuzzyWuzzy

How is it using FuzzyWuzzy to be exact in order to be MIT licensed?
might not be novel or essential but I think it's very cool! well done OP! I really like the fact that it also works great on mobile!
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> I lose track of the which comment corresponds to which parent

Me too, here at HN. When I'm reading on my phone, looking at reply R to a parent post P somewhere far above, and I want to re-read P — then I place my finger to the left on the screen, at the current indentation depth, and scroll up up up, past the even-more-indented-replies above ... until the indentation depth becomes 1 step less than my finger. Then I've found the parent comment :- )

Problem is, how do I find the reply R again. And, sometimes I accidentally move my finger, losing track of both R and P.

In Talkyard, one can instead click the arrows to jump to the parent, and the Back to jump back to the reply R — here's a demo about that: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-...

If you want to try this yourself, go here: https://www.talkyard.io/-71#post-16 then click the long arrow to the left, then click Back at the bottom of the screen.

> unfold level 1 replies for the first comment, while keeping level 2 hidden

Something like that, yes. At the same time, since popular / "good" replies are sorted first, I think it can make sense to unfold a few of the level 2 replies, for the topmost level 1 replies — so one needs to click fewer times, to read the "most interesting" things. But these are minor details; I agree with the overall idea.

> Rather for myself, but as an account setting

Ok. There're also custom user groups — so a site admin could configure this setting for the Everyone group, and then one could override it, individually.

\* * *

>> what things lag the most

> Mostly animations [...]

Ok, thanks for the detailed feedback. I think the code is doing things too much sequentially — like, first loading any draft — an X * 100 ms round trip to the server. Then scrolling the post one replies to into view, Y * 100 ms, then scrolling the preview into view, Z * 100 ms (so both are visible at the same time, if possible). — If instead everything happened at once, it'd seem more instant.

(Also, there're editor Javascript:s that JIT-compiles and runs the first time one opens the editor.)
"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.'
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That we surely agree, interpreters are only good as one is ramping up a language. or doesn't plan to use it beyond basic scripting or learning activities.

You can have both on the same toolchain, and plenty language do have them.

However in some scenarios, like constrained embedded devices, you are left with AOT only.

By the way, modern Android is all three, interpreter, AOT and JIT with PGO.
For toy projects, sure.
Feeling entitled to maintain a parasitic wealth siphoning system so destrctive to a society supposedly justified by a vague 'trickle down' pinky promise that eventually has sucked out so much that you can't but give away some crumbs to let the people literally survive because none were 'trickeling' down from your silver spooned buffets?
I don't mind the GIMP name and if Glimps is really just a rebranding I see no reason to use it. But if they're actually going to fix its glaring UX problems I'll be all over that.
I got sent down a rabbithole of searching by this article too, apparently the doctor wrote an autobiography (in English!) in 1959 that was republished as recently as 2014, but apparently the only way to get ahold of it here is to have it shipped from Malaysia. Or some college libraries, which are unfortunately closed right now due to COVID.

I think we forget that the vast majority (i.e, pre-2005-ish) of human knowledge still exists in the old physical world of print and libraries. Unless you're exceedingly lucky (or it was recently reprinted), its basically impossible to get your hands on a digital version of an old book. Your best hope is that Google Books (which seems mostly abandoned) scanned it and will let you read a few pages.
>Depends on the iron.

tin-lead eutetic is light years ahead of any ROHS stuff i've used with regards to flow performance, regardless of my iron -- a cheap 12v automotive unit or my hundreds of dollars hakko.

I've always used ROHS stuff no problem for bigger less sensitive things. Whenever anything gets near SMD level the hakko and the tin-lead eutetic kester solder come out. It makes the work so much easier for me; not because of the tips on the hakko either, but because eutetic tin-lead flows where you want and locks when you want. I've yet to find a good ROHS solder that works with me for smd stuff without a LOT of brute force and pcb over-heating.

8 times out of 10 if I don't have lead-tin solder when attempting SMD work, i'll just say 'screw it' and use solder paste and a reflow gun or oven. ROHS solder paste acts fine, but reflow soldering sucks when you can normally just zip components on easily with an iron.
Other than invented face mask, Dr. Lien-teh Wu was the first medical student of Chinese descent to study at the University of Cambridge and graduated top class. Later Dr. Wu had also studied at Pasteur Institute, the world's renowned institute on infectious disease. After successfully led the containment effort for Manchurian Pneumonic Plague of 1910–1911, he co-founded Chinese Medical Association. He was also widely considered the pioneer of public health and the founding father of modern medicine in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Lien-teh
Ultimately, the explosion in venture debt products was probably an off shoot of quantitative easing and the general long term fall in interest rates. Investors seeking a yield from regular lending have not been getting it. The present financial crisis will test the hypothesis that the yield on all this venture debt was adequate to cover the risk of default.
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I notice what our customers pay for and write on their RFPs, everything else are just caravans passing by our shovel store.
What? Why don't we not risk another wave by letting people out and instead just wait for a vaccine before completely resuming normality. Less people die this way.
Definitely. It’s good to see companies giving people some time to do fun things too.
Apparently it didn't take long for an example to appear:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725529

Based on name you'd think this library is for fuzzing? No, it's for fuzzy string matching. A "y" at the end would have disambiguated that.

Well, maybe not entirely, because there's still fuzzy logic, but that' 2 possibilities down from 3.
Looking at the source, RapidFuzz has reimplemented FuzzyWuzzy's similarity calculations in C++:

https://github.com/rhasspy/rapidfuzz/blob/c225979db3b02caccb...

https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy/blob/2188520502b86375...

I think (IANAL) that that clears it up - not using the same code, but the same algorithm.
That's nonsense, it is still very easy to get leaded solder in Europe.
If it’s a business expense, you can write it off on your taxes as such. Takes some of the sting out of the price.
Just take solace in the fact that you learned something and you know how to apply what you learn. There are so many things where there is no right answer and one can never be found. Your teacher probably helped you remember the concept better by making a story out of it.
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but I have seen a smallish dolphin or porpoise for sale in a roadside market in the caribbean, about 20 years ago so its not unknown for people to eat them.

(I forget exactly where it was but perhaps Bequia - I don't know if Bequia still does it now but they were subject to aboriginal rights of whaling)
No idea actually.

I also always found it strange.
Okay, you sound like a southern preacher. You want to save the economy? It’s going to take some broken eggs. Not all pennies will be accountably allocated. Some bad companies will survive. Some people will make money when they shouldn’t have.

But broadly speaking, if governments don’t move fast, there won’t be an economy in six months’ time.
If you like fresh products, I'd suggest to stay away from anything like hydroponics. Vegetables won't taste good.
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FuzzyWuzzy was MIT Licensed in the beginning, but then in 2011 decided to start using python-Levenshtein which is GPLv2 licensed and therefore the whole project got GPLv2 licensed.
RapidFuzz is based on this version of FuzzyWuzzy: https://github.com/rhasspy/fuzzywuzzy and implements similar algorithms in C++
Well, from that point of view, it is also the real power of Cobol, Fortran, RPG, NEWP, Java, C#, Delphi.
Norway provides ample guidance here. They have what, a trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund, invested exclusively in non-Norwegian assets, locked away for the rainy day when oil runs out or becomes valueless. That day may now be upon them.
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Fantastic! People never go out of business, but businesses do, take care of people not some fictitious entity.