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I think you might be missing something. Making art -some sorts more than others - simply requires equipment and stuff. I know this. I make art. I probably have more than some people because I work with different media: Watercolors, acrylics, ink, and so on. I'm prolific, and it all gets used. Just not all at once, you see.

This doesn't jive with the folks that brag about minimizing possessions - because it requires such. They might do digital art... maybe.

And rent a stocked studio? Most folks on earth aren't near such a thing nor is it something most folks can do. The few times I've seen any of this, you can't simply rent (and none have been near me). You have to apply to make sure you are good enough and do the right sort of art. At that point, you are representing the studio.

This goes for a lot of hobbies that requires a number of tools, supplies, and space, though. Simpy doing active work requires space and stuff - and some of it might go for months without use because you use different tools in different stages of work. (A woodworker might use a planer, but not every day and rarely if a piece takes a few months).

Actual, truthful minimalism accounts for this, but that wasn't what the topic in this thread was: It was the unobtainable minimalism that creates those that brag about having few possessions... and wind up having to rely on the labors of others to do sometimes basic things.
Does anyone know what's the probability that Remdesivir is indeed a solution against Coronavirus?
The redundancy of most of the section headlines makes me question the efficiency of any algorithms presented by the authors.
Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District
Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology
Most government hiring does not work like that. "HR Specialists" decide if incoming applicants are qualified, and the hiring manager has little or nothing to do with it.
How to test your software
One solution I saw somewhere here on HN the last time it came up was to carefully virtualize the existing systems so they have snapshots to restore from when things go wrong. That opens the possibility of moving the data to more modern systems with a translation layer between the 40 year old systems and the new systems that slowly replace them.
I thought the understanding is CFS is a physical manifestation of depression.
My experience is that "Mom and Pop" shops are generally awash in capital to the point of forgetting to bill customers for months on end. The are "over capitlized and under leveraged" and they offset their thin margins with absurdly low fixed costs. The biggest danger to their businesses is that the proprietors might be older and decide to retire instead of toughing this out.

On the other hand my experience with slightly bigger suppliers/vendors with 5+ employees is that they run into cash flow problems all the time and do in fact seem much more vulnerable to this shock than a startup with no inventory and cash on hand.
In the Wrong Platform section he mentions how the new PayPal CEO wanted to switch the company to Windows and “Fortunately for PayPal they switched CEOs instead.” That CEO they gave the boot? Elon Musk.

It was probably still a good decision and maybe we wouldn’t have spaceX or Tesla without that change, but still hilarious!
My advice is to just stop identifying as a minimalist, and find a better word to describe your identity. The thing is, the article is describing a group of people who self-identify as "minimalist", but you, along with ten other groups that are nothing like you OR the minimalists in the article OR each other, all identify as "minimalist". It's just not a word with any coherent meaning. The result is that every time anyone talks about minimalism, there's some criticism leveled against minimalism, and then everyone's argument is "that's not minimalism, THIS is minimalism". It's an endless circle of semantic arguments.

I at one time described myself as minimalist, but now I would describe myself as an anticonsumerist. It's not a perfect term either, but I haven't gotten in any stupid arguments about it.
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SelfVoice is the problem.

> In several conversations with customers, there was some confusion about noise cancellation function during a phone call or other Bluetooth HFP connection.

Yeah, because having multiple bluetooth profiles, one of which has good cancellation and one of which doesn't due to SelfVoice is disastrous UX.

Anything that perturbs the bluetooth settings on sound-producing devices and switches the default connected endpoint is going to trigger a severe degradation of the headphones' noise cancellation and noise floor. There is no light, or button, or obvious cue to indicate that the device is in a special state. Fixing the problem requires understanding this weird, hidden behavior (strike one) and dealing with bluetooth settings (strike two) on a device that isn't the headphone (strike three).

I am very happy to hear that they are doing something about it, because Windows has recently started clearing my repeated efforts to disable the SelfVoice endpoint. Even though I understand the problem completely (which is always the biggest hurdle) dealing with it has recently become a severe enough hassle that I've been considering ditching the Bose on account of it.
Nice. One of the things that always bothers me about "project" languages is (for lack of a better way to put it) the "look at how smart I am" bullshit that makes thinking about real problems hard and that authors of such projects seem unable to resist. At least from a cursory glance, this seems to avoid that. My first impression is that of a "more accessible Lisp". Interesting.
> If you want to be patriotic. If you want to make a difference.

And continue to incentivize politicians (and their voters) to underpay employees and delay infrastructure spending until a crisis, and then beg for more “patriotism”.
Guilty of number 18, guess why it took two years between wanting to found and actually doing it.

Also guilty of number one, kind of. But that is more due to family /economic situation than a lack of a co-founder.

Regarding programmer and platform. There are so many cloud solutions out thereby now, unless softwareis your product, there is no need to develop it in-house. Take warehouse management and transportation management. Unless you want to built a new WMS or TMS, but build a service, just use the stuff that exists. Which make the programmer a guy able to appraise and implement said software. And like the programmer, one of the founders should be good at doing that.
It’s somewhat true, but not really in the way it’s used. He worked there for two years during WWII and didn’t like the language required in BBC news reports. I don’t think that says anything about what content was allowed out, which was restricted even after the war ended. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/d3a46264-89b...
Recession-proofness isn't as much about your role and more about which companies you target.

Bullshit startups ("Uber for dog-walking" or AI-powered dog food for example) are not sustainable to begin with and only existed because of operating on essentially infinite "credit lines" from VCs. These companies will be the first to go during a recession and we're already seeing it with Bird for example.

The companies you need to target are the ones that solve a real problem or demand (and not one manufactured by themselves) - let's take roads for example. Recession or not, the roads are needed and will remain used by pretty much everyone (whether it's shipping, delivering food into supermarkets, etc) so there will always be business opportunities there. Same with energy, water, sewage, etc.

Look for "boring" companies and work with (or learn) "boring" tech. If your entire career is based around whatever Javascript framework is considered "hip" that day then you'll have trouble because these companies are too busy delivering real value using whatever "boring" framework they are using.
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I have just built my 8bit CPU on a custom-designed PCB.
Ben really inspired me :)

Check it out:

https://github.com/vascofazza/8bit-cpu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_gflIunANo
Amazingly, this happens even if you don't touch them. I bought a pair and misplaced them in my house. Around 18 months later I found them, unwrapped them and found the pleather coming apart. Seems like the very definition of a manufacturing defect. I won't be buying Bose again!
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> If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy.

I have a different idea of what the federal government should be doing than you. I want the government to be as limited as possible and focus on fundamental issues like national defense. The federal government continually fails - see Hurricane Katrina, Iraq / Afghanistan (Obama made the situation worse!), the Great Recession - these are caused because a centralized all-knowing all-powerful actor can’t fix every problem. It’s my philosophical belief.

How will the pandemic be solved? The individual actions of millions people making their own localized choices. That’s how everything ultimately gets solved.

You can dream of a perfect president who could wave his hands and make everything better. But it’s simply not possible.
Not sure you meant to respond here?
Something small, every day (2013)
> There is no plan here.

There is a plan. They are looking for particles which supersymmetry says they should find. They haven't found them. Supersymmetry needs supporting evidence but they're running out of places to look.
I can't edit my parent post, but Turkey thankfully did let the respirators pass through customs today. Even if they were build in turkey by a turkish company, the sell to Spain was before Turkey implemented the no-medical-export-ban so after some diplomacy calls they let it through I guess (hopefully we can send them back to others in need when they need it)
If you’re valuing an NJ government pension at more than $0 to be received more than 5 to 10 years from today, you’re in for a rude awakening.

Maybe $0 is hyperbole, but there is no chance NJ makes good on all of its defined benefit pension promises, and I would rather just get all cash/401k as compensation.

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-stat...
Germany's devolved logic is helping it win the coronavirus race
Looking at the Github commits I’d say neither statement is true? Seems to be plenty of contributors that have contributed recently:

https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/commits/master
I already hated the design before that but persevered because the text was at least readable, but gave up bothering at the point you mention.
(I just reread this comment and it is driving me crazy that I didn't catch the typo of "rubbing my nose in" as "running" and feel the need to leave a correction ;P.)
Rent a vps on alibaba cloud in China, try to scp a file. Last time I tried it went from slow, to really slow to a complete stop. The file was not even big...
I’ve had success with extracting as much logic as I can out of .svelte files and putting them in .ts and importing. At this point the JS logic in my svelte files is almost exclusively view lifecycle stuff. It’s not perfect but it works well enough for me, and I prefer the output to what I’d get with React.
China did block Zoom for 2 months last year.

https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq
The iCalendar syntax (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) is the dominant DSL.
Fresh air and sunlight are great!

It's too bad that scolds are arresting people for getting outside. Everyone should get more exercise.
I think that's less true than it used to be: a lot of papers now cite bioarxiv or arxiv preprints. I've never gotten any pushback and most journals explicitly allow it.

Science: "We do allow citations to papers posted at arXiv or bioRxiv." https://www.sciencemag.org/authors/instructions-preparing-in...

Nature (and other NPG journals): "Preprints may be cited in the reference list of articles under consideration at Nature Research journals...." https://www.nature.com/nature-research/editorial-policies/pr...

Cell (and other Cell Press journals, including Neuron and Current Biology): "Posted preprints may also be included in the References list with appropriate identification information...." https://www.cell.com/cell/authors

PNAS: "Preprints are cited as follows with a DOI or preprint ID number, and the date of posting...."https://www.cell.com/cell/authors
If you mean animal flus that didn’t cross over to humans then certainly. Some of them are in wild animals where we might not casually notice a drop unrelated to our activity, or in farm animals where the heavy use of antibiotics reduces the spread within some farms.
Why would the results not be publishable?
Audio "issues" are incredibly subjective. The placebo effect is so strong with audio, which has led to an entire industry of snake oil and hyper subjective audio comments (like many seen in the replies here). Unless you blind A/B test, it is very hard to discern audio differences unless you have been professionally trained. Your ears and perception are most likely lying to you, especially with something as subtle as noice cancellation. I definitely sympathize with Bose here, it is hard to convince people with science when it comes to audio, unfortunately.
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How to flatten the curve of coronavirus, a mathematician explains
It's no small task to create a program that can churn this stuff out automatically using algos and such. Such articles need sources, and this leads the way for fact-checkers. No source? Then you are immediately marked as disreputable.

Although a common tactic that has worked for years (especially on Wikipedia) is the act of linking to a source, only to find the page either doesn't exist, or the source relies on another source, and that source relies on another source, etc
This isn’t specific to programming. The whole point of hiring foreign is they do more work for less money and don’t complain (lest they lose their visa).

USA has the skill & unemployment to fill farming, construction, housekeeping, etc. jobs no problem. But why would companies pay 2X to hire an American that’s liable to quit at any point when they can get a foreign for X that’s legally bound to the work?
What they mean is time is running out for mass media to make money (by selling ads) talking about supersymmetry and string theory. Science and physical theories are timeless - they already existed before there were any humans, and they would continue to exist even after the sun explodes.
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I was able to create several small molecule candidates which achieved docking scores of almost -18 but they still need to be assessed for their synthetic feasibility. (Docking scores of leading existing drugs (HIV inhibitors) are around -10 to -11 (the more negative the score the better), Remdesivir drug is around -13 which already entered clinical testing.

I know that binding affinity has been shown not to be the best indicator of efficacy always, but I want to know if it's feasible, if someone can help
You're making good points.

First, I'm talking about a PL "middleware" layer than does not necessarily involves restructuring the data itself (basically, instead of querying tables or views, you query stored procedures or functions).

When it comes to version control, wouldn't a migration system suffice to assess the state of that layer?

As for unit testing, I kind of agree, it's possible though, like any other programming language.
19 Not leveraging / building upon an unfair advantage — Network, Contacts, Insider information, Access.

20 Listening to anecdotal stories of others just to find excuses for the failures you made in 1-19.
If you call him on it, he might use more scrutiny next time. We definitely don't win by not trying.
WHO Protocol and Procedure in controlling Covid-19
Oh great so I'm not the only one who's avoiding all of this. I stopped following the news after the Guardian put up a death counter.

There just isn't enough balance and too much negativity - or at least there was two weeks ago when I last checked. I can only imagine how bad it must be on those 24hr news channels. Regurgitating the same thing over and over again.
Cool!

Something I wish project docs would always include is …why… and what. Why does fe exist? Why did the orignal author spend a span of 6mo on it? What can it do and what can't it do? Don't make people read between the lines. It can be just to learn and have fun! But please don't make me read between the lines.

The overview is interesting:

* Supports numbers, symbols, strings, pairs, lambdas, macros

* Lexically scoped variables, closures

* Small memory usage within a fixed-sized memory region — no mallocs

* Simple mark and sweep garbage collector

* Easy to use C API

* Portable ANSI C — works on 32 and 64bit

* Concise — less than 800 sloc

Since I work in embedded Linux systems I always like looking at small languages, using Lua at the moment. So it struck my interest, oooh this is interesting.

The single fixed allocation is interesting, and odd. It then has gc...so why On the not just use malloc the manage the pool? I wonder if the performance is that much better?

But beyond print there's no IO library, so I guess it's a "toy" language, maybe somewhere to learn a lisp flavor?
He's still trying to figure out how to get the required intact wax seal to come thru the fax.
Then the strategy of undervaluing the work of creating and maintaining robust systems will be validated.

Why spend the money and invest now for the future, when you can lean on people to donate their efforts in times of crisis?
Interesting, I was aware of this technique in deep learning but didn't know its origin!
> “I’m not some monster. I’m a liberal,” he says. “The goal isn’t money.”

proceeds to fabricate articles damaging to liberals because the money is good
Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study estimates
This reminds me of "Hyrum's Law":

"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

People might implement work-arounds for bugs in an API that could break when the underlying bug is fixed. Or software might implement the absolute bare minimum for it to "work" with some specific implementation.
Unlike the rest of the readers of HackerNews I'm not an expert on breadmaking. So, to me this looks like a very cool resource that could make me feel confident enough to try. It also looks real nice, and plays well on mobile! Nice work!
Its not about whether to have a pile of junk or not, but its utility.

My fathers side of the family is all farmers for generations. They piled up a lot of junk and reused continously around the properties. But those weren't just random piles, but sorted and to a degree inventoried and cleaned so it can be used efficiently.

They could e.g. plan ahead for new projects how much can be build from scrap vs new materials.

Sure just throwing stuff on a pile doesnt cost you anything, but i dont see how you are going to reuse that stuff somewhat efficiently later without upfront assigning some value to different types of junk
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The Good Judgement Project's superforecasters expect 250m cases by next April
Huh. That's pretty damned interesting. Thanks for explaining!
Is the asteroid something that's known to the audience and characters involved from the beginning of the story? Is the asteroid something they could unify against and push back if they'd just get over their differences? Is the asteroid something that experts are claiming is coming but laypeople deny first as a fairy tale, then as not as big a deal as people claim, right up until it meaningfully affects their own lives?

It's an important story to tell, and I think your dismissals are indicative of the same flaw as the characters: thinking the petty struggles they face are more important than the survival of the species.
Not wishing to downplay the subject, but the surveillance state is not a recent development in the UK. Tony Geraghty [1] was writing about this over 20 years ago. Back then, it was about how techniques developed for use in Northern Ireland during the troubles were beginning to be applied across the UK as a whole. This involved things such as the mass-interception of communications, or automatic scanning of car number plates on a massive scale with the aim of tracking all car journeys within the country. Recent developments are unfortunately just a continuation of a trend started a long time ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Geraghty
More than 350° but less than 450°
What website hosts the best arguments?

And since an argument is always hosted on some kind of computer (be it a webpage in a server or your brain), can you answer if a computer can explain itself? [42]
https://jobs.51job.com/yx/co5065032.html

Mistake? whoops
Dont forget the tens of thousands of fake Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. accounts that were so pivotal in spreading misinformation!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/19/twitter-a...
Serious question: Should I learn COBOL in 2020-0?
Broadband engineers threatened due to 5G coronavirus conspiracies
There is an unfortunate culture prevalent in the government sector that biases towards "buy" vs "build" to the extreme that only vendor-supplied solutions are even considered. What this leads to is pathologically bad solutions that result from the RFP process because of the odd incentives that favor private sector profit over public benefit.

I don't know the "right" solution, but the current one overly favors corporate/private interests heavily, and this has caused a strong feedback loop that lobbying allows to strive.

The deeper problem is that powerful corporate interests yield so much power in the first place and allows them to prop up systems like this that continually favor them over, say, governments developing and retaining competent internal teams that can actually make or are empowered to make the right technological decisions.

Phrases like "government waste" and such are thrown around, but even a cursory examination of the current situation should be enough to demonstrate that problem hasn't been solved and the current situation is probably worse than if we allowed governments to run more like the private sector is allowed to.

If that means the government can compete with private businesses in the service of the public, I am struggling to see the downside to that compared to where we are at now.
If I could run Linux on it with support for all the hardware, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately, I think it's Windows-only.
Coronavirus: The NHS workers wearing bin bags as protection
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Yep, just like the best defence against dying in a car crash isn't a seatbelt or airbags, it's good old fashioned being awesome at driving like me.
1984 came like 40 years late.
How to build a calorie tracking telegram bot
Yes! I think it's also important to remember that you're cultivating a living organism. It's an art, and you should adjust your schedule based on what the dough is doing.