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>How would this work in a solid house?

I've got copper tubing running along the bottom of the walls and going through inner walls and flooring. I can't think of anything going through the outer walls. We've got an antenna cable routed through a window frame.
The drop in pneumonia deaths is largely because flu season is ending. Before COVID, flu was one of the leading causes of pneumonia, and pneumonia deaths typically trend alongside flu season.
If you want to know more, the HHS website has info.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/h...

Specifically as it applies to current events:

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/e...
I'm not resorting to mockery. I'm sympathizing with the original article's pain. Everything worthwhile in Postgresql involves major downtime and pain to adopt. It's not nearly as seamless as other RDBMS. That was his point, and that is mine. I use checksums as an example, but it is relevant to major version upgrades and other feature introductions.

I don't understand why it takes 4 releases before a tool like pg_checksum becomes available after the larger feature is introduced. If the whole thing isn't ready, don't release it.

I'm not saying it's easy. I never said it was.
I think it's courageous because it is not easy to critique the country you immigrate to without inviting a lot of pushback. It implicitly feels like it's not your place to complain because you weren't born here.
Let's circle back in six months and see how you're doing. Things still feel nice and full when you've had a nice big dinner. But give me several lean days of no breakfast and meager lunch and dinner and you'll see just how full you feel.

Startups are not in any way, shape or form, "better" than any other traditional business. In fact, maybe worse.
Once you take outside funding, whether the founders “care” about their employees is irrelevant. They don’t guide the company any more. Their investors do.

If they “cared” about their employees and weren’t looking for a large exit, they would be creating a “lifestyle” business and not seek VC funding.

I’m not making a moral judgement either way. Everyone should go into any employment situation with their eyes wide open.
TL:DR; I've been writing a Rust dataframe library for a while (on and off when I have time). This is my first update, to motivate why I'm writing it.
If the name isn't obvious from it's function in the domain, there is something wrong with the architecture you're using
I grew up on Usenet so I'm used to it.

Always thought the idea was that the first slash pushes the letters over, and the second one keeps them from falling down completely.

The unification of underline and italic is an artifact of the limited technology of the typewriter, and I see no reason to preserve that.
Yes: ECB is also somewhat malleable, and uniquely vulnerable to "cut-and-paste" attacks since nothing ties a run of ciphertext blocks to its position in the stream. But these arguably aren't especially relevant to Zoom's threat model.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18677508

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644463
I chose the blue pill!!!
I've played ~20 hours of Stardew Valley and ~10 hours of Animal Crossing so far, and the vibe is totally different. Animal Crossing is slower paced and very relaxing, whereas Stardew Valley is much more story/character driven. IMO the point of Animal Crossing is personalization, and making the island your own space, which I enjoy. It really helps me unwind at the end of the day.

At some point, playing Stardew Valley felt like real work, and that's sort of when I lost interest.
Yea, I had this c2015 when I was seeking 250k to grow a revenue generator. I was told to make a story that compels a 15M future valuation so I could ask for 750k now. But I didn't even believe the revenue projection need to justify! I said no, these are my numbers. I couldn't fake a 10x story and my 6x story wasnt compelling enough.
Mega Monopoly is the best official variant I've ever played. There's an extra dice with a symbol on two faces that forces you to move to the next unowned property after you complete your first turn. When all properties are owned, the same roll sends you to the next space where you have to pay rent after you complete your turn. This speeds up the property distribution and the end game considerably.

Mega Monopoly has other fun changes, including one more property on each colour group, an extra level of building above hotels (skyscrapers), "depots" on railroads that double the rent, and "bus tickets" that permit you to move forward to any space on your side of the board instead of rolling the dice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly:_The_Mega_Edition
I read "did not win overwhelmingly" was an understatement. Also small subs are good in littoral waters. The smaller, the better.
To one person?
As someone who really really hates the "reduce contrast" trend, I personally thought the screenshot labeled "have to do better than this" was the most readable. The one after that just looks faded.

Then again, I also find it funny that "dark mode" is heralded as something revolutionary, when long ago people could customise UIs far more. You can still do that with userstyles, another thing that seems to have gotten mostly ignored these days...
The two games have totally different vibes, which is fine. AC is more for relaxing and unwinding, while SV is more of a story-driven/objectives-based game.
I must admit that I had heard of repl.it in the past, but never gave it a thought.

I tend to use Jupyter because it's easy to sho, relatively easy to use, and I can distribute its documents. But installing it gives newcomers a lot of trouble, which is a shame.

I'll look more at repl.it! I'm not sure if/when/how I'll use it, but knowing about additional, newbie-friendly tools is crucial in my line of work, and helps me to improve my classes.
As others have said, it depends on how you get rich.

Let's say someone runs a shoe store. When someone wants their money more than they want new shoes, they walk past the store, unmolested. But when they want new shoes more than they want money, they go into the store. They willingly give up their money to get something they want more than money. That is, the store makes all their customers better off - not better off in terms of money, but in terms of "money plus stuff". The customer gave up something they wanted less in order to get something they wanted more - they're better off in their own terms. If the store owner can make all the customers better off and get rich doing it? Then I agree with Deng Xiaoping: "To get rich is glorious."

To get rich by exploitation, by theft, or by deceit is shameful (that is, the person doing it should feel shame, whether or not they do, and whether or not the society actively shames them). It is shameful in China and in America; it was shameful in Deng's day, and today, and it will be shameful forever.

So: Being a billionaire is not inherently immoral, by itself. But it depends on how you made the billions.
I mean, it won't be, for the same reason 'tedunangst points out above. But even if it was: the repeats you'd be referring to would be leaking... stock background filters and modes.
> ... that society will devolve into this immediately, every fender bender or bit of road rage turning into life or death conflict.

To provide context, here is some data on that:

"cases of road rage involving a firearm — where someone brandished a gun or fired one at a driver or passenger — more than doubled to 620 in 2016, from 247 in 2014."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/us/road-rage-guns.html

That doesn't amount to "civilization-breakdown", but whether it's a level that's worth worrying about is something different people will feel differently about. I suspect it is a higher number of cases (per capita) than many other countries with stricter gun laws.
The project uses wikilinks to create or update Topic pages which backlink to the journal entry. It then allows you to connect topics with relations; it then will paint a graph for each topic that has such connections. Connections are also topics with the full semantics of the statement made by connecting two topics; you can then wire connections in a coherence graph.
I'm not sure if you're the author, but in case you are I just want to say well done on the tutorial! I really like the way it's built up and not only shows the pattern, but also the why behind the pattern. I will definitely give this a try with Mithril.
See also the "Austrian business cycle theory". But the bust, while clearing the economy of a lot of mal-investment, goes on for quite a painful while before the previous level of output/employment/prosperity is matched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
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That's pretty much a definition of "elite panick".
The news just keeps getting worse for SoftBank. "OneWeb, a satellite start-up that had raised $3 billion in venture funding from investors including SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate, filed for bankruptcy on Friday and plans to sell itself."

Can we finally admit that SoftBank's model of so-called VC funding success is really just a colossal failure? The throw-everything-into-it approach of making Unicorns a reality just doesn't work.
Could these machines not be used for the patients without a contagious respiratory infection who need help breathing?

That way the proper ventilators are available to people with covid-19.
I'm not sure choosing a color scheme for your CSS is really 'building' anything.
"Divert"? You seem to be assuming that those resources belonged to other people. That's begging the question - you're implicitly assuming your conclusion.
No, I mean daily US deaths from ALL causes.
Well Category Theory is a pretty solid logical foundation...
> Life is not fair, and you can't fix it.

I don't think the fatalistic attitude towards changing the system is any more (or, as much as I hate to admit it, less) reasonable than the "you could be Steve jobs too." Odds for both are pretty bleak, albeit non zero.

As advice to an individual in a rotten system, "make the most of what you've got" is fair enough. But when folks talk about politics they're not usually fishing for personal career advice. So when you bring this up in that context, either you've missed the point, or you're trying to distract folks from the issue at hand.
> I wouldn’t call Firefox “innovative” it’s just another web browser.

So basically you'll just be moving the goalposts until you prove Apple is the only innovative company around? Right.
If it is a random project, then you are pretty much lost. So, Do not contribute to them. Think of a project you use and where you would like to see a few features. Pick it up, subscribe to the issues for a few days and get some familiarity. After that, compile it and put a few debug points.

Also, write to the developer(s) of the project that you are looking for something to work on. If they suggest something, work on it.

That said, I think Apache Foundation projects are pretty well documented. Try them.

This is all advice from a person who never contributed to OSS.
Direct link in English: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/phagocyte/
Zombie epidemics are over because the genre has been done to death (!), and is now simply boring.

I was very disappointed that Game of Thrones veered into just another zombie show.
IETF does protocols and engineering, not internet governance. Specifying internetworking protocols is not a monopoly.

I'm no more enthusiastic about nation state involvement in internet governance than tje averagw HNer but putting out specs shouldn't be policed too much.
Does anyone know of such an article written for immigrants in Western Europe? I’d find it interesting to have an “outsider’s” view on the culture I live in.
But that wasn't this situation:

> She purchased a Prius last year specifically to rent on Getaround, using the money to cover both its monthly costs and those of her primary vehicle.

She bought an investment vehicle (no pun intended) that worked for a while and then crashed (still no pun intended). She overextended herself and can't handle the downside.. this feels like a bit game of musical chairs and she was caught without a seat. :|
Rule of Acquisition 211: "Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them."

When you're a "human resource", you will be exploited. The term is dehumanizing. The C-suite requires this abstraction lest they are caught treating their resources like humans.
Data cones before analysis...

I'd like to see the increase (If any) of actual deaths in US on a week by week basis.

Just looking for a good source of that number... If it exists.
Yep, exactly, I think it's beneficial and the right move.
Again people not on the front line criticise those who are.

If you get infected, would you take it, or would you wait and see the result of the full study?

Now imagine having to take that decision not just for your life, but for your patients, and all the 200 staff that work in your hospital.

Another way to view the situation: you are a policeman stopping an ambulance not respecting the driving code and driving too fast, and then learn there is a dying patient in the back, what do you do?
I recall a book in the bookstore in 1989 about how IBM was inevitably going to grow and take over the world. Wish I'd bought it. :-)
Despite Threats from Management, Amazon Warehouse Workers in Chicago Strike
Are reasonable defensive measures a panic?
Thank you, this is the best thing right now binging on the news is unhealthy taking care of the community is better.
Ok, but if posting to HN, please don't just rant about how stupid other people are. If you know more than others, share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn something. And please omit name-calling.

"A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When you have your OS set to dark mode and a site blinds you with it’s whiteness...you see the total UX fail. UX is about the U. If they’ve specified I want things black on contrast, then support it. Because they expect it. Post shows how feasible it is...and users, the U, will respect you for it and keep coming back.

Otherwise your first impression is simply blinding and not in a positive way
I had a recent stretch of unemployment that was made a bit more difficult than it had to be by the number of potential hirers who were under the impression that developers go home and just do more development. My GitHub repo? Uhh, yeah sure, here are some dotfiles I backed up a couple years ago...
I think its unlikely because everyone knows its going to right back up once this blows over. So demand should hold constant.
The article defines elite panic as a false panic; a "cognitive disorder", caused by elites who look down on the rest of us and think we're all violent hooligans. If people really are trying to kill them, I don't think "panic" is an accurate term and I can't blame them for taking steps to avoid being murdered.
Are you implying that venture funding at previous levels is a function of low interest rates (that's the theory in ABCT linked above). I don't think that specifically applies here. While it's possible venture funding is accelerated by low rates, this was not the case in the late 1990s prior to the 2000s dot-com crash.

Rather we're seeing a Black Swan event causing macroeconomic pull back, and it's pulling back the covers on companies that really had no fundamental underlying value or support. The only real exit for these companies was acquisition or public markets. But with both exits now drying up, there's nothing but overvalued, overfunded companies with revenue streams (if they have any) drying up faster than the glaciers are melting.

The fundamentals were never there, and it was only the fat-times of VC investment keeping them afloat. There might be a role to play with ABCT with regards to VC investment as a whole, but this downturn is more than just a normal business cycle.
> Very few people claim to understand the proof

I don't have any idea what this proof looks like and I can assume it's very complex. But, could it be modular enough that you can check the proof without understanding it?

For instance, imagine the proof is made of 50 lemmas. One could check the main theorem derives from the 50 lemmas. And checking each individual lemma could be left to other mathematicians.
That's a nice way to look at it. Like the GP, I almost never return to bookmarks.
Well according to the very rules of this site, you're supposed to give the "random person on HN" the benefit of the doubt.

At the very least, you could choose to express your opinion in a respectful manner.

Like the parent poster, I find your frequent hostility neither productive nor insightful. IMHO of course.
The sad part is then, why is no one coming up with a better alternative?
I think big isn't just pure size. Groupon was a 'big' company in chicago with ~10k employees here.
This is quite exciting news! My understanding is that the vaccine against tuberculosis varies from a country to a country greatly, which can explain variance in the outcome.
I understand your comparison from how the underlying product is realized but I am looking at it from the value delivered to a software shop.

Whether it's Nintendo, Steam or iOS, the value delivered is the same: I give you docs, guides, etc to construct a program against an abstract target. When you are done and press the "ship it" button, an opportunity now exists, in the real world, for people to buy your thing and for you to keep some money.

Regardless of how the platform achieves this, the value is the same. You get to focus on building your product and collecting money. What I can't wrap my head around is why developer's are judging the affordability or fairness of this when the fractional cost may not have changed since the 80s/90s.
This is the response the govt should’ve had in January. Ramp up test kits, PPE, reagents, etc as fast as possible. If it all goes to waste, be happy that a pandemic was avoided. So much could’ve been done for the cost of a couple of F-35s.
> The amount of virus exposure is quite different

That's what the CDC previously said! This post is you agreeing with the CDC.
50ms to rerender with no changes is quite slow. One frame is 16ms. Being able to rerender part of the render tree in ones of milliseconds is critical for most reasonable frameworks.
Why do you even assume that cowarding behind a castle with armed guards to keep neighbors at Bay are "reasonable defensive measures"?

Sounds to me you're exhibiting "elite panick" while being completely oblivious to it.
Your board and investors clearly have an exceedingly high regard for their own predictive abilities if they can anticipate the reaction of a specific financial sector two years hence, based on the effects of a crisis that's realistically about 3-4 weeks old.

I'm not saying they are wrong. But the premise that anyone has a fucking clue what's going to happen on what timeline is ludicrous.
I remember using a forum software on a site long ago (around the late 90s/early 2000s timeframe) where one of the options in the user preferences page let you adjust the colours of various things --- and not as in "pick from these limited choices", but as in "enter the CSS colour value, either a name or #hex", and I believe it saved them for every user since you'd only see them when logged in. Does anyone else remember what that could be?
Good point; was it not possible in this case?
Employees with high salaries at the larger more stable tech companies are doing most of the Bay Area home buying. Think FAANG, stripe, twitter, slack, etc. These companies can weather economic downturns without laying off people so Bay Area house prices don’t drop much. This was the case in 2000 and 2009.

Supply is also dropping as tons of homeowners are refinancing, which balances out any drop in demand.

The biggest hit is usually on the lower end of the market where you’ll see foreclosures as middle class people lose their jobs.
Rust is being adopted by Apple so I wouldn’t worry about it.
Rents fell in 2008. I can tell you this for sure, because I had just moved to SF, and landlords were making deals. My landlord lowered my rent by $100 a month in order to keep me from moving in 2009.

Even as late as 2010 this was happening. I looked at a place on Russian Hill around that time, and it was offering rent incentives.

In my recollection, the market didn't pick up again until around 2012, corresponding with the rise in startup investment.
> Canning tends to use lots of sugar or salt.

Extra sugar = lots of extra calories = good in times of food shortage.

> You need staples in this scenario, not pickles.

Canned veggies in addition to staples would ensure more calories are around, as well as access to wider range of nutrients and more taste variety.
Author here; I was very surprised to find this ancient (from my POV — I wrote it in Dec 2014) article at the top of HN, but am pleased at the discussion it has generated, whether you agree with my perspective or not.

I’ve been back in the US a while now and things have changed both here and in Armenia. I don’t think the big picture on offer is much different, but perhaps there’s room for a sequel.
If a business - any business whether a takeaway restaurant or a food hall or a white table cloth sitdown - cannot scrape by for more than a few weeks without steady revenue, wouldnt you say they are in a highly saturated niche or a highly saturated location or both or that they don't serve anything distinctive whether its their food or the experience, that couldnt be replaced by any other Joe Homecook with comparable resources?

Why is that restaurateurs deserve a special shake when your local HVAC guy does not, especially when the margins are so thin probably because they cant charge a premium for their offerings as they don't offer anything distinctive or compelling?
I translated the description. The name of the game translates to "Jump <slur for prostitute>" and requires you to curse during the game (it's using the microphone).

In other words the censors didn't realize that the entire game is built on obscenities.