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> The issue is "common sense and intuition" is what gets us anti-vaxxers, climate change denial, etc. As the saying goes, common sense isn't common.

I'm sorry, but yes it is.

First off, those are not common-sense issues. They're complex, and just because they make sense to the high IQ crowd on HN doesn't meant that they have any reflection on common sense. Just because anti-vaxxers say that vaccines are bad because "common sense" doesn't mean that it has anything to do with other than them being morons.

Common sense is that masks do something and aren't harmful to use. Common sense was right. Just because common sense and intuition are sometimes wrong doesn't mean that they're always wrong, which would be a fallacy. It doesn't even take common sense; an average joe can use basic cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to use a mask, if they are wondering whether a mask is a good idea. Trusting people(often pundits) with ulterior motives over a month after the fact would have turned out to be less advantageous.

This idea that we can't ever use our intuition because it's often wrong is dangerous. If we can't make any decision with intuition, including one as harmless as wearing a piece of paper over our faces, then we're slaves of the mind.
On the subject of employee loyalty:

At a previous company, we were all called in for a mandatory employee meeting. As we sat around in the office "living room", the CEO talk about how we were going to pivot, and went around the room telling everyone what their new role would be.

He skipped a few people.

When he finished, he thanked the "extra" people for their help but told them that this was their last day at work. Then he went around the room and gave each of them a chance to say what their time at the company had meant to them, so we got to see our freshly fired friends stammer out stuff like "I thank you for this wonderful learning opportunity, and, uh, can I have a reference?" through choked-back tears.

The rest of us started looking for jobs that same day. The CEO was shocked and offended that we'd walk out on him when he needed us the most. Well, if we're not treated with respect and loyalty, what would you expect?
That's an interesting list. Can you give more context about how you would like to use these features?
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57 billion into 40 million people = $1425. That's without any overhead. Say there was no overhead, that's $3.90 a day.
> 40 million Americans received more than 57 billion dollars in SNAP.

57bn / 40m = $1425

$1425 / 365 = $3.90

While that's doable, it's really not a lot.
This press release was posted an hour or so ago, but then flagged and deleted. I had commented in the original post to ask whether anyone could put the US administration's argument against 3M's claims as stated. 3M argues on fairness/ethical grounds, but also that an export block would be counterproductive as other countries retaliated/reciprocated.

Anyhow, there is another piece on HN citing a WSJ article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769288

There is a de-paywalled copy of the WSJ article here:

https://archive.is/pinkQ
There is an option of getting full-time CPT/work authorization through a master's degree program and many F-1 students pursue this if and when they are not selected in the lottery. Whether to do this is a personal decision because there is substantial cost (tuition) associated with this. Moving from H-1B to asylum is generally very difficult unless there has been a change in conditions in the worker's home country.
The one-tap feature only works on iOS (<15% of cellphone market), although I would assume that it's higher in the enterprise space. There are also conference room telephony systems where there is no one-click solution.
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This was pointed out in the article.
The most critical objective is to keep businesses afloat
Thank you for this - my team and I have been looking for a replacement to PgAdmin for quite some time now and this fits the bill exactly. Two features I thought we were going to have to give up when moving from MySQL to PG where ERD management in-app and the ease of use of MySQL workbench.
Or it could be a few nuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkAP-CQlhA

( yes, I know that's a terrestrial, microwave relay dish and not a satellite antenna, but it could happen.)
I'd love to see the MERGE statement from MSSQL in other databases. Wonderful tool for integrations.
Thanks for your kind words. Stay safe and healthy as well.
Of course, that's the point of the account to share logins, you still get your own user with your own lists, recommendations and all that. Though, Spotify handles it nicer where you can add your own account to the family group plan.

Not often, but often enough to become a nuisance with 2 TVs or so, some tablet/laptop for school work/gaming/whatever and a mobile device per person.

Yeah, I think that's about right.
> Do you really care that much about the language? Shouldn't you care more about your data? If you are not OK with SQL there are abstractions available.

I do care about SQL being a text-based protocol with in-band commands, bringing lots of functionality that I never need (I do not use the fancy query features for exploratory analysis, I have applications with very specific data access patterns).

For my needs, I do not need a "query language" at all, just index lookups. And I would much rather not have to worry about escaping my data, because I have to squeeze everything into a simple text pipe.
There is a lot of great hardware out there, no doubt. But the question isn't that simple. Another big component is the software. For the desktop, I find MacOS difficult to beat. I like and use Linux a lot, but there are commercial applications, I can't run on Linux. And I want to avoid Windows if possible.

And once you stepped in the Apple universe, you will find a large number of devices working together. The Mac, the phone, the tablet.

So there are many reasons to choose an Apple product, beyond its specs per dollar. Also, while I think that Apple prices are high, and upgrade prices even outrageously high, if I spec a high quality competitor coparatively, I often am not that far away from the Apple prices.
IDK if they're a US thing, but as a European I never even heard of Bird before. This is literally the first time I hear of them.
We have sort of Meal Hubs ("Tafeln") here in Germany and from what I heard, most of them closed because of fear they turn into virus hubs. Some have recruited volunteers that deliver food to the doors but that doesn't help the homeless.
You are unfortunately getting downvoted, but you are entirely correct.
Are any of these following the modern standards of web development (like what you would get with a framework like Laravel), or are they still just a pile of random PHP files?
The circular/radial model of city design (2014)
I was part of this exact scenario once. Unsurprisingly, people still thought it was a terrible way to do it. Personally, I agree with you and this strategy though.
This is somewhat misleadingly worded: it makes it sound like what they receive each month is 17*4 = $68. The actual average per month is $127/recipient.

Arguably this is still insufficient, though.
I wasn't agreeing or disagree and that was a presumption all of your own.
RISC OS and NetBSD running on the same SoC
>war time vocabulary you're using there, referring to treason, by the way...

I was using it in reference to the cooperate/defect choice in the prisoner's dilemma. It's a term of art in game theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
You want an OLAP database, something like Clickhouse.
US got favorable deals in many countries using its military might, i guess that is what the comment is implying.
To me to reduced bitrate has made anything that moves look terrible, especially if there is a lot of movement on the screen
Technically, that is also true when studying energy in physics.

You can't ever measure it directly. Only indirect effects.

From that we build models.

And one of those models contains a quantity called "energy [physics/chemistry/etc]" which is in fact a highly abstract concept that doesn't correspond to any actual object in the world. Technically it doesn't even have a definite value in any real system.

But we take it seriously because there's a useful, strong conservation law based on strongly compelling underlying principles (e.g. Noether's theorem), and no known violation of said law, or at least, every time there is an apparent violation, it eventually leads us to an explanation. It's a very useful abstraction indeed, and we can build all sorts of useful things knowing it.

In fact, the conservation is key to making "energy [physics/chemistry/etc]" accurately measurable at all. And sometimes we even get that wrong.

The notion of "subtle energy" is another model, much less well developed and rarely if ever quantified. One can argue all day about whether it's a useful model and what it models, if anything. My view is I'd love to see serious attempts to work backwards from observed phenomena (such as mentioned in the GP), as well as other reports (people report tingling, heat, feelings like electrical currents etc - this is data even if it is subjective, and it has structure). And from that build a more coherent model than the "intuitive" explanations often produced.

But they are both describing abstract properties in models, and measurements are indirect not direct in both cases.
I don't think online interviews will be an option and when US Consulates will reopen is really anyone's guess since it will depend on conditions on the ground in that country (as well as corresponding travel restrictions). My personal feeling is that they won't reopen before May, possibly June or even later.
Incorrect, SNAP and other federal/state programs do not go far enough to feed a family. And the poorest families are constantly demonized as some sort of "Welfare Queen" living large on steaks and top shelf liquor.
Is there a Galera-equivalent for Postgres?

There's BDR, but it's closed source for recent version Pg AFAICT.
We know medical procedures like intubation can generate aerosols. My dad's hospital has, for example, set a 15 minute time-out in the trauma bay after one of these aerosol-generating procedures; your x-ray's gonna have to wait.

We don't know that coughing alone generates significant amounts of coronavirus aerosols. The studies I've seen so far indicate it's not a major source of transmission; that droplets are the concern.
Yeah, I had an old, slowed iPhone 5S and I had a third party shop replace the battery and when it can me back, it was significantly faster.
Looks quite neat, I'm happy to see more interest in these markets!

Also, "SHA256 encryption to ensure your user's data will always be safe and never compromised." confuses me, as that is a hash function, not encryption method.
macOS update breaks video conferencing when most people are working from home
The new apps added for developers:
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Even oxygen has a cost from the pedantic point of view.
Is specifically for a moon orbital station, and is already contracted by NASA.

Elon has already indicated that they are hoping to prove out Starship and then get NASA to approve them substituting it for those missions [1].

[1] Tweet seems to be deleted, so here's an embedded copy on NSF https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47352.msg2...
>- Deliver your message with empathy and context as to why the decision has to be made for the survival of the company. //

Clearly the people in charge don't care about the employees. When they're just using the employees to make them money, IMO, it is worse to lie and pretend otherwise.
Postgres has UPSERT (INSERT INTO ... ON CONFLICT DO ... )

I wish MSSQL had this.
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You said: I have never seen a difference (in high-end phones with Apple versus Samsung) OR (any of the other Android phones with the latest Snapdragon). I showed you a difference. I'm not going to keep going with this because at the end of the day, I really don't care. Good day :)
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If you're an average user and your phone is spontaneously rebooting, you probably think to replace it even more.
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3M stated the order was with regard to Canada and Latin America.

https://twitter.com/Travisdhanraj/status/1246065884524929024...
One of my previous companies handled it this way: We knew layoffs were coming, and that they would happen on a certain day. On that day, you got invited to one of two meetings - one on the 6th floor, and one on the 7th floor. One meeting was for everyone getting laid off, the other one was for people staying.

You didn't know which meeting was which until you got there, of course. It was awful.
why would they want to compete with their cloud strategy?
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Agreed - however in light of the sudden downvote withoutcomment, you kinda feel that people should not be allowed to downvote without comment and avoid turning this into reddit.

I raised a fair and valid observation and yet, well, hard to ignore such things and I'm not going to debate why as politics is bad.

Thank you for your concerns and not blindly dismissing the point as many have and did do.

I'm going for a walk now, I may be some time.
You think the remaining workers are going to “get back to work faster” just because their colleagues were canned fast?

That’s not how people work.
BGP has some security. It's called rpki and the industry is slowly adopting it.
Which is interesting because emotion is directly proportional to level of energy in brain cells.
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What's always in question if is there suffcient amount of virus to infect someone. It's an empircal question that is just starting to be answered.
Google location data shows how much daily life is changing in every state
Clincialtrials.gov tracking at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03769194
Is This the Beginning of the End of the Bay Area as the Global HQ of SaaS?
You're using it right now :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

Lisp is probably more popular among those that read HN than the general developer public. It also depends on what you mean by "Lisp" (i.e Common Lisp or "the Lisp-derived languages")
I don't think that's a low bar. The US is an advanced economy. Why would people being unable to get fresh produce or have a balanced and varied diet be acceptable? Especially when you consider the obesity problems the country is facing.

I think that food insecurity meaning literal hunger pains is way too low a bar for the US. That number should be literally 0%. Food security for us should mean food that is healthy and excellent.
I recently learned that insects are not kosher, so some Jews don't consider figs to be kosher because of the fig wasps. There are probably more examples.
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Identifying the system and in particular the closed feedback loops is a great learning from Boyd's OODA model; what is critical though is identifying and optimising out (well, minimising to the best of your ability) the entropy that inhibits iteration and degrades overall system performance.
Most embedded microphones these days are digital MEMS microphones, using PDM. For those, if you gate off the digital signal, it's gone for good. I wouldn't be surprised if this is what Apple is doing.

This is how the Google Home Mini does it. When you flip the mute switch, an AND gate kills the digital signal from both microphones (a stereo microphone pair share a single data line). All the audio hardware gets is a string of 0 bits at that point.
Large-scale corporate change has a natural dichotomy.

If news gets out before all the details are finalised, so no-one is blindsided by the announcement when it happens, some people will have lots of time to have sleepless nights and complain about how they're not being told whether they still have a job; and people you hoped to retain will start sending out CVs.

If news is kept secret until you know every last precise detail, people will be upset this problem has come out of nowhere without them being warned, and that they weren't trusted with secrets, and that they weren't consulted on who in their team would be fired.

And of course, in an announcement to 400 people, you'll have at least one person who'd have preferred the other option...
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I feel like "end-to-end encryption" is a mostly self-explanatory term. All data passed from one end to the other is encrypted.

The point of encryption is to ensure that third parties cannot read your data. If a third party has the power to decrypt and read the data, then it's already misleading to advertise it as "encrypted". That would be like advertising a pair of boots as "waterproof" when they only actually prevent water from entering via the soles.

If the data is encrypted by one end, decrypted by a third party, and received at the other end unencrypted, then the encryption is not "end-to-end". I'm not sure how you could possibly interpret that part any other way.
Your "summary" curiously omits one of the most important details — That the battery could be replaced and the phone would perform like new. If not, the ever deteriorating battery would result in a never ending arms race of throttling. Inevitably, that phone and battery would be in the landfill instead of just the latter.

Whether or not the whole thing was intentionally nefarious I'm not convinced. But the episode looks way worse than your comment suggests.
> 2 - Imagine how much more useful this would be printed on paper.

Do you want me to fax this webpage to you?
They've taken out so many features, what's left in it? User credential management/enrollment and...?
It was a valid observation based on the data at hand, but let's leave it at that.

Thank you for taking the time to reply.
As a Canadian, what’s the best way to advertise to potential employers my eligibility for the TN visa, and emphasize how much less hassle it is than H1-B visa sponsorship?
Depending on their status, there are options to stay in the U.S. beyond the expiration of their authorized period of stay, whether by filing something with USCIS before their status expires (such as a change to or extension of visitor status) or by requesting "satisfactory departure" with CBP. There is also a chance that USCIS will relax or even waive expiration dates for a period of time but that hasn't happened yet.
In the same spirit as putting tape over the webcam, I'd love it if someone found a solution for putting a tiny magnet in exactly the right spot to force-disable the microphone while the lid is open. :)

I hope you're right, and I'd agree that would qualify as a "hardware disconnect". It's a little confusing given the mention of the T2 chip; they do differentiate some specific models which are "hardware alone", and at least imply that the T2 chip does not flip the off-switch on those. I'll have to go dig into iFixit's tear-downs to see if they found anything. For the 2020 iPad, they specifically mention "MFI compliant cases", so we can be fairly certain that one's done with magnets.
"Mercury is a deadly poison. It is common sense that having it in a vaccine is bad."

This makes perfect, intuitive, common sense to a significant portion of the population.
> Why not install an ad-blocker

> not installing filters on information.

you're literally advocating opposing viewpoints in the same phrase
Wow, incredible to see this again.

Way long time ago I wrote a wikipedia page for this software. The page was soon deleted and I learned my lesson about trying to contribute to things which do not value your work.
Mozilla employs something like .... five? people to work on Rust these days. We usually have a few hundred contribute to any given release https://thanks.rust-lang.org/

I left Mozilla over a year ago, this change isn't really super relevant to it other than I was a full time docs person and now there are no full time docs people. One person isn't a team, though, and the team had these issues even when I was employed.
Hi Peter,

Really appreciate you doing this!

For a non-American who gets a bachelors degree in the U.S., what are the best paths for starting your own company in the U.S. if you don't want to raise venture capital?
onsite?
There are too many incomplete lisp-on-js solutions. No, CLJS doesn't count. It would be so awesome if one ever made it to actual usable maturity.

Is it too hard? Is there something that makes everyone give up? Or is lisp just too academic for most people to care?
Not really, but Paul Graham likes it, and narrowly speaking, he's not wrong about its unique power and flexibility. I think those traits meant a lot more in the late 90s and early 00s, when powerful and flexible programming environments and engineers skilled in their use were much thinner on the ground than today, but I like it too, especially in the form of Emacs.
See, I agree with everything up to that last sentence. Because from what I can tell most people who say that just have a different idea of which media outlets that are the problem.

I think in some respects we're better off now. An outlet like The Intercept couldn't exist 40 years ago. They have a clear bias but some of the stories they break are huge and are exactly the kind of thing the NYT in its heyday would've sat on.

Our old media system had the benefit that it helped create a fairly singular truth for people to follow. But it created what I think was equal to the massive lying you are concerned about by just not reporting on lots of stuff.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/why-doe...
Fair - SMS requires strict opt-in in the U.S., so its important that businesses don't text customers who don't opt-in.

I actually like my texting reminders.. for example I like when the pharmacy texts me that my prescription is ready, when Uber drivers text me that they have arrived, when Fedex says my package has been delivered, etc.